Despite a serious work injury, Lincoln literally told this FPL lineman employee to go a climb a pole. In order to deny long-term disability insurance benefits, Lincoln hired a doctor to review medical records and conclude that our client could return to his heavy duty job of repairing electrical lines.

Long term disability lawyers Rachel Alters and Gregory Dell discuss the steps we took to get this wrongful Lincoln long term disability denial reversed.

• Why did Lincoln deny long term disability benefits after paying for one year?
• What was our strategy to win this Lincoln long term disability appeal?
• Why did Lincoln rely on a paper review, ignore claimant’s treating doctors, and not physically examine the claimant?