Keeping disability insurance companies honest & Helping claimants collect LTD or STD benefits
Disability Blog & Cases:
Anesthesiologist files lawsuit against Paul Revere Life Insurance Company alleging wrongful deduction of social security retirement benefits
On April 29, 2011, Dr. Phillip W. Watson and his disability attorney filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court Southern District of Florida as a last resort to settle Watson’s claim that…
Disability Blog & Cases:
Former Zurich Insurance employee diagnosed with crohn’s disease sues Liberty Life for denial of disability benefits
Carol Snyder and her Missouri disability lawyer filed a civil complaint against Liberty in United States District Court in the Western District of Missouri because Liberty denied her claim for short-term disability benefit payments.
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Disabled since March 12, 2008, Gayle Bennett initially received her disability benefits from Prudential Life Insurance until February 27, 2010, when Prudential ceased paying Bennett’s disability benefits and refused to continue paying her disability benefits as required by her Plan. Consequently, Bennett and her disability attorney filed a six count lawsuit in the United States…
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…
Recently a lawsuit was filed at the District Court for the District of New Jersey against the Prudential Insurance Company of America (Prudential) for failure to pay long term disability (LTD) benefits to a disabled teacher for West Orange Board of Education. In Janel Braun v The Prudential Insurance Company of America, the plaintiff…
Disability Blog & Cases:
Aetna fails to review Bank Of America employee’s ERISA disability benefit appeal timely resulting in lawsuit by an Illinois disability lawyer
Brian Woulfe of northern Illinois worked as a mortgage loan officer for Bank of America until he was no longer able to work with reasonable continuity because of complications that…
Recently, the Prudential Insurance Company of America (Prudential) was sued by an SAIA truck driver for denial to pay long term disability benefits under the SAIA’s ‘Hourly Employees Long Term disability plan’. A Texas disability lawyer filed the lawsuit on behalf of the plaintiff Mitchell Stiles at the District court for the Northern District of…
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…
It’s not unusual for a long-term disability insurance company to ask a claimant to apply for Social Security Disability Income (SSDI) benefits. Why? When claimants receive SSDI benefit payments, the disability insurance company will offset the monthly benefit payment paid to the claimant by the amount of money the claimant receives from SSDI.
Most disability…
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…
