-If your client is a unionized employee and his LTD was denied by the Sun Life Assurance, it is necessary to review the Collective Agreement, the Administrative Services Contract, the Benefit Booklet and the correspondence from Sun Life. -In general, the disputes of determination of your client (unionized employee)’s entitlement to LTD, is within the … Read More

<Arbitrator for a Unionized Employee> If a plaintiff is a unionized employee, the court may not have jurisdiction for determining denied long-term disability (“LTD”) benefits. It shall be within the exclusive jurisdiction of the arbitrator, if he was eligible for LTD under the terms of the Collective Agreement.