Federal Judge Skips LTD Claimant’s Fees Tangle With Her Own Attorneys

( November 3, 2025, 8:35 AM EST) -- NEW YORK — Declining to exercise ancillary jurisdiction over a fee issue that involves a retainer agreement, a New York federal judge said that doing so in the otherwise concluded case concerning long-term disability (LTD) benefits “would require the Court to decide entirely new claims and would not result in judicial economy.”...