Disability Attorney Gregory Dell writes on how a Kentucky Court overturned a denial of claim for mental illness and awarded claimant long term disability benefits for 24 mth limited period as defined by the LTD Plan.
Following an investigation Cigna Insurance Company has entered into a regulatory settlement agreement and agreed to re-evaluate thousands long term disability claims that were previously denied.
It is essential that you file an ERISA appeal timely if you received a denial of group short-term or long-term benefits by your disability company.
When a person successful files for benefits on a disability insurance policy it is long-term and very expensive to the companies.
Disability Insurance Lawyers prevailed in an ERISA appeal when Principal Life Insurance Company wrongfully denied her long term disability benefits.
2011 Long Term Disability Claims Review reveals CDA member companies paid more than $8 billion in disability insurance payments to over 587000 disabled individuals during 2010.
In pricing their insurance policies disability insurers often neglect to consider the physical toll that the practice of dentistry can take on an individual.
How claim adjusters make their decisions to deny or terminate long term disability claims never fail to surprise and shock us.
Exploring the possibility of receiving a lump sum buyout of your disability benefit payments.
Frequently asked questions claim mistakes and explains the process of filing a claim for disability benefits.
Disability Insurance (DI) provides partial wage replacement to eligible workers who are unable to work because of a disability.
Release of new functionality in FastTrackRTW product designed to help companies involved in short-term disability long-term disability and workers compensation insurance.
A Functional Capacity Evaluation (FCE) are tests you will be put through to see what your physical capabilities are with regard to work.
The answer to this depends upon whether or not you have a claim governed by ERISA or you have an individual disability policy.
There are generally two sources of disability number one is accidents and number two is illnesses.
If I am approved for Social Security does that mean the disability insurance company must approve my disability claim.
A Functional Capacity Evaluation is test that you will be put through to see what your physical capabilities are with regard to work.
The answer to this question is really that you can treat with just about any type of medical doctor for your claim for long-term disability benefits.
You need to be extremely careful in returning these medical authorization forms to the long-term disability carriers.
Self-reported symptom condition limitations are starting to become more prevalent in group disability policies.
Answers the question can you engage in volunteer work while you are collecting long-term disability benefit payments.
It is possible your long-term disability claim can be denied for a pre-existing condition.
With a physical disability you should be seeing your doctor at an absolute minimum of once every three months.
A list of the most five common reasons for a long-term disability claim denial.
How to determine the date of your disability which can be a complicated process.
Residual disability is a complicated provision that's contained in many long-term disability policies.
If your claim has been denied through ERISA group policy the most important part now is the actually filing of your appeal.
A long-term disability carrier evaluates your claim for benefits on a month-to-month basis.
Insurance companies are going to ask for your tax returns for a handful of reasons.
SSDI program carries requirements that can make it difficult to receive disability benefits.