Hannington v. Sun Life and Health Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an offset for VA disability benefits was improper because the plan did not expressly include such benefits in its definition of Other Income Benefits and such disability benefits are “dissimilar” to Social Security Disability benefits
• stating that Veterans' Benefits are based solely on \diseases and injuries incurred by service personnel on account of their military service\
• “Like other courts to consider the issue, […] we believe that the Veterans’ Benefits Act begins at 38 U.S.C. § 101 and encompasses all of Title 38 (Veterans’ Benefits).”
• “extra-plan material” is reviewed de novo

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).