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We have helped thousands of disability insurance claimants.
Disability Insurance Lawyers Helping the Disabled Since 1979
We are disability insurance attorneys that have helped thousands of claimants nationwide to obtain STD, LTD and long term care benefits.
You should select a company below to view our law firm’s experience in battling every major disability insurance company.
Our lawyers can help you anywhere in the country and we always offer a free immediate phone consultation.
We do not charge attorney fees or costs unless we are able to recover benefits for you. Regular communication with our clients and enforcing timely payment of disability benefits is our priority.
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We Have Earned A National Reputation
Our law firm has a national reputation in the field of disability insurance law and we have received the highest level of recognition from the nation’s leading legal peer review services.
We are authors of a chapter on disability insurance law in a Westlaw Insurance Law Text Book and we are routinely invited as disability experts to lecture on the topic of disability insurance claims. We have appeared on numerous national radio shows, published numerous disability articles and often relied upon by national media outlets to provide commentary on disability insurance issues.
We are the creators of Disability Law TV and have produced over 175 disability insurance claim videos which can be viewed throughout our website and on YouTube.
We invite you to learn more about us and we look forward to the opportunity to assist you in navigating through the various issues that need to be considered when selecting a disability attorney to handle a claim for disability insurance benefits.
Our Services
We represent claimants at all stages of a claim for disability income benefits, which includes the disability application process, monthly claim handling, denial of disability benefits, ERISA appeals, lawsuits to recover disability benefits and lump sum policy buyouts for individuals that are currently being paid disability income benefits. We always offer a free consultation.
Why Do You Need A Disability Attorney?
Disability income policies are drafted with ambiguous and confusing contractual terms. This provides disability insurance companies with multiple reasons for delaying and denying disability income benefits.
Many years of handling complex disability insurance issues against every major disability insurance company has given us the unique knowledge, litigation skills and trial strategies necessary to help our clients obtain disability benefits and monetary damages for wrongful disability income claim denials.
Nationwide Representation
As a nationwide disability insurance law firm we have represented thousands of disability claimants throughout the country. We invite you to learn more about disability insurance claims in your state.
Two Disability Attorneys For Your Case
On every case we handle we believe in a team approach, which means that your case will be assigned to two long term disability attorneys and a paralegal. Long-term disability cases are challenging, and we believe it is important for your case to have input from multiple Dell & Schaefer disability lawyers.
Extensive Disability Law Resource
Throughout our website you will find an overwhelming amount of helpful information about disability insurance claims. On our Free Disability Information page you can review a detailed description of the extensive disability resources that we offer. We track every disability insurance company on a daily basis in order to keep up with their latest tactics and lawsuits around the country.
We have designed our site to be interactive so that disability claimants can either post comments about their disability insurance experience or ask general questions about disability insurance claims. Our disability lawyers respond on a daily basis to most comments.
The Frequently Asked Questions and Disabling Conditions sections of our site offer some of our most popular content.
Disability Insurance Videos
On a regular basis we film and add new videos related to long term disability insurance claims. Throughout our website you will find custom videos about our disability claim legal services, frequently asked questions, specific disability insurance companies, and disability company claims handling practices such as video surveillance, IME exams, and claimant interview request.
Disability Insurance Law TV is a video series dedicated to discussing all issues related to disability insurance claims.
Free Legal Consultation Request
We encourage you to contact us if you are considering applying for disability income benefits, have been denied total or partial disability benefits, or are interested in approaching your insurance carrier about a lump-sum buy-out of your disability income policy.
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Apr 17, 2019 Jennie, regardless of whether it is governed by ERISA or not the Group Disability Policy under which your husband was covered will spell out what “Other Sources of Income” can be offset against...
Apr 17, 2019 My husband worked for a county government when he was injured in 2003. He went on workers comp, short term disability, and then long term disability. In 2009 he was awarded SSDI and received a...
Apr 17, 2019 Nancy, the carrier is typically allowed, so long as it is reasonable, to request that you attend an FCE or other examination. That said, there are several ways you can protect yourself when attending...
Apr 17, 2019 I have been disabled for 7 years now and on long term disability and social security disability. I have degenerative disc disease with other diagnoses severe headaches which was caused by CT...
Apr 17, 2019 Heather, your date of disability is the day following your last day worked. As long as you were an eligible employee covered under the Group Policy when you stopped working, which looks to be April...
Apr 17, 2019 I have a contract with my employer and it is to expire in June 2019. I was on FMLA intermittent till 4/6/19. I notified my employer on 4/8/19 that contingency plan for surgery due to their 30 day...
Apr 16, 2019 Nikki, not unless they have reopened your claim at the administrative level or the Court has ordered them to do so. Generally, the administrative record closes for both the insured and the insurance...
Apr 16, 2019 If I filed a lawsuit against a insurance company, are they allowed to request additional information if it's under ERISA Law?