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ERISA (9th Circuit) — What is a Sedentary Occupation, Anyway? How a Job Analysis Can Win Disability Claim Denials.

By Mike Reilly on January 26, 2021
Posted in ERISA

You know the Ninth Circuit has taken the position that an “employee who cannot sit for more than four hours in an eight hour workday cannot perform ‘sedentary work that requires ‘sitting most of the time.’” Armani v. NW Mut. Life Ins. Co., 840 F.3d 1159, 1163 (9th Cir. 2016) (Emp. added.)…

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