Disability Blog & Cases:
Office medical specialist suffering with fibromyalgia and CFS hires Arizona Disability Attorney to sue CIGNA for denial of disability benefits
Anita Barajas has taken her disability claim to the United States District Court of Arizona in an attempt to force University Physicians, Inc. (“UPI”), CIGNA Group Insurance, and Life Insurance Company of North America to provide her the disability benefits she is entitled to. An Office Medical Specialist 2 for UPI, Barajas became disabled on July 8, 2008 when “fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (“CFS”), Sjorgen’s syndrome, and depression with memory loss” prevented her from performing her duties as an office medical specialist or any other occupation.
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Disabled engineer from Philips Electronics North America sue Sedgwick Claims Management Services Inc. for denial of long term benefits claim
In the case of Andrew Gary Sigai V Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc. and Philips Electronics North America Corporation, as Administrator of the Philips Electronics North America Long Term Disability Program, the plaintiff Gary Sigai, through a Kansas disability attorney, filed a lawsuit against Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc (Sedgwick CMS) at the District Court for the District of Kansas.
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Disabled Goldman Sachs’s financial analyst filed lawsuit against Prudential Insurance Company Of America for denial of disability benefits following multiple seizures
Many disability insurance companies have developed a notorious reputation for the way they handle claims for long term disability (LTD) benefits. Regardless of the claimant’s background or medical conditions, the disability insurance companies will always try to have the last say in a claim application and reduce their obligation to pay out LTD benefits. A recent lawsuit filed by a New Jersey disability attorney at the District Court for the District of New Jersey is a very good example of how the Prudential Insurance Company of America (Prudential), as alleged in the lawsuit, “contrived a way to avoid paying those benefits…” Let us take a closer look at the case of Courtney A. Leone v Prudential Insurance Company of America.
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New Jersey disability attorney filed lawsuit against Prudential Insurance Company of America to compel payment of long term disability benefits to disabled client
A lawsuit was filed recently at the District Court for the District Of New Jersey against the Prudential Insurance Company of America (Prudential) by a former employee of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey for unlawfully discontinuing benefit payments to the disabled plaintiff. In Denise Hodges V Prudential Insurance Company of America & Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (Horizon), the plaintiff Denise Hodges alleged that Prudential had contravened the provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) by failing to pay disability benefits to her.
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Unum Life Insurance Company of America sued for claiming social security child benefits as part of the reimbursement for overpayment of long term disability benefits
Nowadays, it is standard practice for disability insurance companies to require claimants with long term disability (LTD) benefits to apply for Social Security disability benefits as well. Upon being approved for social disability benefits, the disability insurance companies will then deduct the amount of the monthly social security payment from the monthly benefit amount that was previously paid by the disability company. In most cases there are no disputes by the recipients as to this procedure by the disability insurance companies. However, problems arise when the disability insurance companies also try to claim those social security benefits like social security child benefits as offsets which are not meant for the claimants of LTD benefits. The case of William E. Sorrell V UNUM Life Insurance Company of America is an example of the above mentioned situation.
Disability Blog & Cases:
Disabled project manager for RTP Technology Corporation filed lawsuit against the Unum Life Insurance Company of America for refusal to pay disability benefits
A New Jersey disability attorney recently instituted a lawsuit against the UNUM Life Insurance Company of America (UNUM) at the District Court for the District of New Jersey of behalf of a disabled client. In Robert Garozzo v UNUM Life Insurance Company of America and RTP Technology Corporation long term disability plan, the plaintiff Robert Garozzo is seeking payment of disability income benefits from UNUM under the terms of a long term disability Benefit plan.