Prudential Cut Benefits to Disabled Man after Secretly Filming…Someone Else

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Prudential Insurance was so convinced Kevin Roth was faking his condition—liver failure,aggravated by scoliosis, osteoporosis and degenerative disc disease—that they hired a private investigator to film his activities. Convinced they had caught Roth, a former production supervisor for Ag Formulators in Oregon, in the act, the insurance company cut off his disability payments in 2007, claiming that he was no longer totally disabled. However, MJM Investigations (now known as G4S Compliance & Investigations) had filmed the wrong man. But even after Roth proved this to the company, Prudential refused to reinstate his disability benefits. He is now suing the insurer, seeking restoration of his payments, as well as those he missed over the past two years.

-Noel Brinkerhoff
 
Man Says Insurer Snooped on Wrong Guy (by Karina Brown, Courthouse News Service)
Kevin Roth v. Prudential (U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon) (PDF)

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