7th Circuit Upholds ‘Thorough’ Ruling Denying Systems Engineer LTD Benefits

( February 24, 2025, 10:52 AM EST) -- CHICAGO — Affirming a determination that a systems engineer isn’t entitled to long-term disability (LTD) benefits because he didn’t “establish that he is prevented from performing one or more essential duties of his occupation,” a Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel said in a nonprecedential per curiam disposition that its “independent look at the record” showed “no error, legal or factual.”...