Keeping disability insurance companies honest & Helping claimants collect LTD or STD benefits
Resolved Cases:
Hartford reverses disability benefit denial after previously paying 62 year old sales rep for 6 years
Our client, a 62 year old former pharmaceutical sales rep, had been receiving long term disability benefits with Hartford Insurance Company for nearly six years due to chronic back pain, which had resulted in six surgeries in…
Disability Blog & Cases:
20 years of receiving disability insurance benefits and CIGNA denies woman’s benefits three separate times
A federal lawsuit recently filed in Pennsylvania against Cigna Insurance Company portrays a woman’s 21 year on and off battle with Cigna in order to maintain her long term disability benefits. When dealing with disability insurance…
Resolved Cases:
Standard Insurance Company reverses disability insurance denial for a disabled lawyer
Disability Insurance Lawyers Dell & Schaefer prevailed in an ERISA appeal filed on behalf of their client when The Standard Insurance Company wrongfully denied her long term disability benefits. The client was suffering multiple gastro-intestinal conditions, chronic intractable abdominal pain, visceral hypersensitivity syndrome, nausea…
Disability Insurance Law TV:
Who makes the final decison to approve or deny disability insurance benefits?
Is it the disability insurance claim representative or hired insurance company doctor that makes the decisional to approve or deny benefits?
FAQ | Overpayment Issues:
Can Veteran Disability Benefits be deducted from my monthly long term disability insurance check?…
Disability Blog & Cases:
Disability lawsuit against MetLife alleges insurance company refuses to pay disabled claimant
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, known as MetLife (NYSE: MET), is being sued in United States District Court, Southern District of Florida, for refusing to honor its contractual obligation to pay long term disability insurance benefits to a psychologically…
Disability Blog & Cases:
Hartford Financial’s mental nervous disorder limitation clause in disability insurance policy held ambiguous
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently ordered a lower court to reconsider its decision that had affirmed Hartford Financial Insurance Company‘s denial of a woman’s claim for disability benefits. Although the claimant has…
Disability Blog & Cases:
Principal Life denies disability benefits to a physician and then seeks attorney fees after physician’s disability denial is affirmed by Texas Judge
Dr. Bruce Leipzig had been denied long-term disability benefits by Principal Life Insurance Company, and brought his ERISA case before the District Court covering the northern part of Texas.
Disability Blog & Cases:
Missouri Court reverses Prudential Insurance Company’s wrongful denial of disability insurance benefits for former pharmacy technician
A Missouri Federal Court determined that Prudential was wrong to terminate a man’s disability insurance benefits by relying on a vocational expert who was not given enough information and a doctor who failed to explain…
Disability Disability Insurance Law TV:
10 things to expect when your disability insurance company asks for an IME exam
Almost all disability insurance policies provide a disability insurance company with the right to have the insured examined by a physician of their choice. The disability insurance companies can select any physician and a claimant must…
Attorneys Seek Information In Order to Prove Conflict of Interest Impacted Claim Denial
Another case appeared recently before the United States District Court, Northern District of Indiana, Hammond Division. It sheds light on motions to compel. We will look at the background behind the motion before looking at how the Court evaluated the need for…
