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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Grimberg finds in favor of the insurance company in a lawsuit from a beneficiary over the denial of her claim for long-term disability benefits filed when she stopped working after being diagnosed with scleroderma. The company successfully argues that given the timing of when the beneficiary became insured under the policy, when she received treatment for worsening symptoms and when she was actually diagnosed, her scleroderma was technically a pre-existing condition because she was treated for it during the three-month "look-back period" prior to her policy becoming effective, even though she was not diagnosed until after this period ended. These facts make the company's denial reasonable and neither arbitrary nor capricious, and the company's motion for summary judgment is granted and the beneficiary's motion for judgment on the administrative record is denied.