First Unum Life Insurance Company
19 distinct federal cases coded as employment matters from public court records (2000–2026)
6 trusted published court opinions across 6 distinct cases · 2 docket-only cases without a recorded end date
What public court records show
In public federal court records, First Unum Life Insurance Company is named as a defendant in 19 federal cases coded as employment matters between 2000 and 2026.
Of the 6 trusted published opinions analyzed, the most common outcomes were: 4 ended in a ruling for the worker, 1 ended in a ruling for the employer, and 1 settled.
The most common claims on record were Wrongful Termination, Failure To Accommodate, and Wage Theft.
Cases were filed across 4 states, most often in MN.
These figures summarize publicly available U.S. federal court records only. Most workplace disputes are resolved privately and never appear in litigation. A case outcome reflects many factors and is not a finding that any employer violated the law.
Written decisions across 6 distinct cases.
Jurisdictions represented in the analyzed opinions.
About this employer
First Unum Life Insurance Company appears in 6 trusted published federal employment opinions. Recent written decisions on record:
Jahnke v. UNUM Life Insurance Company of America (2025) — Plaintiff Win. A woman named Jahnke received long-term disability benefits from UNUM Life Insurance Company. At some point, the company decided to stop paying her benefits and terminated her claim. Read the ruling.
BARNES v. UNUM LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA (2024) — Plaintiff Win. Lori Barnes had long-term disability benefits from her employer's insurance provider, Unum Life Insurance Company of America. Unum terminated her benefits, claiming she was no longer disabled and could work. Barnes disagreed and took the company to court. Read the ruling.
Hardy v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America (2024) — Plaintiff Win. Hardy received long-term disability benefits from Unum Life Insurance Company but the company terminated those benefits. Hardy challenged this decision, arguing that Unum improperly denied the disability support without valid justification. Read the ruling.
The published opinions primarily involve Wrongful Termination (3 of 6), Failure to Accommodate (2 of 6), Wage Theft. Browse the linked claim hubs for outcome statistics and other employers facing the same allegations. Wrongful Termination, Failure to Accommodate and Wage Theft.
Published opinions span Minnesota (2), New York (2), Michigan (1), Maine (1). Minnesota is an EEOC deferral state, which extends the federal Title VII / ADA / ADEA filing deadline from 180 to 300 days. Browse state-specific employment rulings for jurisdictional patterns. Minnesota rulings, New York rulings, Michigan rulings and Maine rulings.
These published opinions sit within the financial services sector, where Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank whistleblower protections often supplement standard Title VII claims.
Opinion Outcomes
Opinion Stages
6 analyzed opinions have a classified procedural stage.
Of the 4 summary-judgment opinions, 1 ended the case in First Unum Life Insurance Company’s favor and 3 let the worker’s claims continue.
What do these stages mean?
- Summary judgment
- A ruling where the judge decides the case — or part of it — without a trial, because one side argues the key facts are not in dispute. For workers, getting past this step is often the biggest hurdle.
- Motion to dismiss
- An early request — usually by the employer — to throw the case out before any evidence is gathered.
- Settlement / consent decree
- The two sides resolved the dispute by agreement, sometimes with court approval. Most settlements are private and never show up in published opinions.
Published federal-court opinions only — most workplace disputes are resolved privately. This is not anyone’s odds, and not a finding that any employer violated the law.
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Claim Types
What these numbers mean
A case is one lawsuit, identified by its court and docket number. The docket is the running court record for that same case — it is not an extra case.
A published opinion or ruling is a written court decision. One case can produce several opinions, so opinion counts and case counts answer different questions. Only trusted, reportable opinions are used in the outcome statistics on this page.
Docket entries are the individual filings inside a case — motions, orders, scheduling notices. We read them to confirm a case is real and to see where it got to, but an entry is never counted as a case or as an outcome. A single case can generate hundreds of entries.
Far fewer opinions than cases is normal. Many employment cases settle privately or close without a published opinion. No opinion here does not mean the worker lost; it means this public record does not show a reportable result.
Everything on this page comes from public federal court records. Where we are not confident a record is accurate, we leave it out rather than guess.
Federal court cases
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Other court records naming this party
6 published opinions name this party but are not coded with an employment claim. Some are labor, unemployment or workers’ compensation matters whose claim type was not recorded; others are not employment disputes at all. They are not counted in any figure on this page, and no outcome is shown for them.
- Employee v. Unum Life Insurance Company of AmericaE.D. Tenn. · 2025 · Tennessee
- Employee v. UNUM Life Insurance Company of AmericaN.D. Ill. · 2023 · Illinois
- Employee v. Unum Life Insurance Company of AmericaE.D. Tenn. · 2023 · Tennessee
- Employee v. First UNUM Life Insurance CompanyS.D.N.Y. · 2022 · New York
- Employee v. Unum Life Insurance Company of AmericaD. Minn. · 2020 · Minnesota
- Employee v. Catholic Healthcare Partners Employee Long Term Disability Plan6th Circuit · 2015
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Data sourced from public federal court records via CourtListener.com. Case outcomes extracted using AI analysis. This information is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. The presence of an employer on this page does not imply wrongdoing — many cases are dismissed or resolved without findings of liability.