Our Resolved Disability Insurance Claims

Browse our resolved disability insurance claims. Each case study details how we helped our client overcome their insurer's tactics and secure the disability benefits they deserved.

Showing 381–388 of 388 Resolved Claims

Unum challenges the long term disability claim of a blind salesman

Our client, a window coverings salesman, began developing significant vision loss in November 2006 and approached Dell Disability Lawyers for assistance in applying for long-term disability benefits with Unum. His policies stated that he would be entitled to benefits for the rest of his life if he were totally disabled prior to his 65th birthday or if he qualified as totally disabled under the "Presumptive Tot...

Unum Provident and Monarch Life Insurance Company pay total disability to dentist

Ever since our client was in junior high school, he had dreamed of being a dentist and opening his own dental practice. Through years of hard work and loyal dedication to the field of dentistry, he achieved this dream. Being one of only a small percentage to receive a Mastership from the Academy of General Dentistry, our client successfully maintained his own practice for several years. Unfortunately, in 2000,...

Unum Provident approves physiologist's claim for disability benefits

Following bilateral hip surgery, a physiologist that had an "own occupation" disability policy hired our firm to help him better understand the terms of his policies and see if he was eligible for benefits. While he was no longer able to perform the substantial and material duties of his specialty, this doctor did not want to sell or forego his practice. Instead, he planned to hire another doctor and simply mo...

Unum Provident pays advertising executive total disability benefits

Our client, an advertising executive with cognitive deficiencies as the result of mercury poisoning, hired us prior to filing his claim for total disability benefits with UNUM Provident. We advised him on closing his business and assisted him throughout the entire application process. This included helping him to complete the application for benefits, attending all in-person and telephonic interviews with him,...

Unum Provident pays total disability benefits to a chiropractor with breast cancer

Our client, a chiropractor, suffered from post-mastectomy related struggles, upper neck and back pain, as well as chronic pain in her hands, fingers, thumbs, and wrists caused by Osteoporosis and Arthritis. This pain made working on patients impossible, as bending and twisting caused severe mid back pain which would radiate through her mid-sternum area. Furthermore, upon her attempt to adjust patients, our cli...

Teacher suffering from Sjorgen's syndrome, fibromyalgia and other conditions receives lump-sum buyout following denial of long-term disability benefits

Prior to becoming disabled, Mrs. C was an eighth grade English literature teacher in southern California. In 1996, Mrs. C began experiencing pain in her muscles and joints as well as fatigue and disturbed sleep.Her physicians soon diagnosed her with various connective tissue disorders, including: Sjogren's syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, atypical lupus, Raynaud's phenomenon, fibromyalgia and muti-nodular g...

Liberty Mutual reverses denial of short-term disability benefits and approves long-term disability benefits for advertising account manager

Our client was a top selling account manager in the advertising department of one of the country's largest companies, in one of the company's most demanding regional markets. Over the course of her career she exceeded sales quotas that were in the upper six figures, year in, year out.In mid 2008, our client began suffering from severe anxiety and depression. Unable to handle the tremendous pressure and str...

Jefferson Pilot's denial of long-term disability benefits to a quality control manager is reversed

Our client, a Texas resident, contacted Dell Disability Lawyers following her initial application denial and first appeal of her disability denial by a prior law firm. This woman, suffering from chronic neck and back problems, a stroke, depression, headaches, and memory loss, had been a quality control manager for a large corporation. The client was unable to perform an work and was seeking total disability be...