Our client, a financial currency trader, purchased a long term disability policy from Unum more than 10 years before she was forced to file a claim. Our client was a successful currency trader with a history of depression and bouts of severe fatigue, who, due to her conditions stopped working in January of 2008. For
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Berkshire and Liberty Mutual approve benefits to OB/GYN suffering from essential tremor
Our client, an OB/GYN purchased long term disability insurance policies from Berkshire and Liberty Mutual in hopes that he would never need to file a disability claim. He began experiencing a slight tremor in his left hand in 2006. At that time he sought treatment to determine the origin of the tremor and his options…
Unum Provident terminates disability benefits to woman with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) (Part I)
Unum Provident Reviews Approved Benefits to Assure Continuing Qualification
When Nancy Perryman stopped working on February 28, 1997 she was the Western Farm Bureau Insurance Company’s agency manager for metropolitan Phoenix and Northern Arizona. She supervised between 18 and 21 insurance agents who worked out of Western Farm Bureau’s various insurance offices. She’s earned around…
Arizona Court rules Provident wrongfully terminated disability benefits to insurance manager with CFS (Part II)
When Nancy Perryman stopped working, she was the Western Farm Bureau Insurance Company’s agency manager for metropolitan Phoenix and Northern Arizona. It was a complex job, in which she supervised between 18 and 21 insurance agents at Western Farm Bureau’s various insurance offices. She’s earned around $300,000 each year in commissions, with average monthly earnings…
Harvard University ordered to pay $53,817.50 in attorney fees to disability insurance claimant
Rosemary McGahey’s long-term disability attorney did an excellent job of representing her in U.S. District Court’s Massachusetts district in December of 2009. McGahey’s disability attorney carefully demonstrated that the administrators of the Harvard University Flexible Benefits Plan had wrongfully terminated McGahey’s long-term disability benefits. As part of the court’s decision to award McGahey compensation for…
Disability battle against Verizon and Broadspire long-term disability plan lingers in courts for years
Lisa Pakovich and her former employer’s long-term disability plan had been in and out of court for almost five years when Judge Michael Reagan listened to arguments between Pakovich’s disability attorneys and Verizon Long-term Disability Plan on March 24, 2010. It was the third time he had considered this case in less than a year.
Broadspire ordered to pay disability insurance benefits but not attorney fees
If Judge Michael J. Reagan is beginning to tire of considering the case between Lisa Pakovich and her former employer’s long-term disability plan, he may have good reason to. He has had to listen to arguments from both Pakovich’s long-term disability attorneys and the Verizon Long-Term Disability Plan (Plan) attorneys at least four times in…
Aetna denial of long-term disability benefits for chronic fatigue syndrome upheld by Court
Physician’s Failure to Fill Out Functional Limitations Paperwork Costs Man Rightful Benefits
A supporting physician is essential for any claimant to receive long-term disability benefits. However, a treating physician must do far more than just diagnosis a disabling medical condition. The decision rendered by the U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit in Williams v. Aetna…
Court orders Citigroup and Metlife to answer discovery request exposing conflict of interest in long-term disability benefit denial
Frequently, a disability attorney finds that additional information is needed before he or she can demonstrate that a conflict of interest has motivated the denial of benefits by an ERISA governed disability insurance company. In order to secure this information, the disability insurance attorney files a Motion to Compel Discovery. In response, the disability insurance…
Life Insurance Company of North America (CIGNA) lump sum settlement buyout offer obtained for former salesman
Disability Insurance Attorney Gregory Dell was retained to help an industrial salesman negotiate a lump-sum buyout offer with Life Insurance Company of North America (LINA), also knwon as CIGNA Group Insurance.
Our client had been on claim for several years as a result of a cardiac condition. His claim had not been smooth as…
