Our Resolved Disability Insurance Claims

A former Payroll Manager for Solairus Aviation, a large Private Jet Charter and Aircraft Management Company was significantly injured in a serious motor vehicle accident which occurred on June 26, 2017.  This accident changed her life forever. Due to the accident, our now client suffered from a traumatic brain injury which led to diagnoses such a post-concussi...

Client was Regional Director for the State of Louisiana. She was diagnosed with cervical radiculopathy, spondylosis, lumbar spondylosis and bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome. In 2020 she underwent an anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. Unfortunately the surgery did very little to resolve her neck pain, radiculopathy and discomfort.She was a Regional Di...

Lincoln Life Assurance Company of Boston improperly denied our client’s long-term disability benefits.  Prior to filing for disability, our client was employed as a Line Specialist-Early for FPL (Nextera Energy, Inc.). According to the Position Summary, the material and substantial duties of his occupation include but are not limited to:Position Summary:...

Our client, an Anesthesiologist, suffered a fall at his home which resulted in rupturing his left quadriceps tendon requiring him to undergo surgery the following day. For the next month and a half, he underwent extensive recovery and rehab in his attempt to return to work. Believing he had sufficiently recovered; he made a return to work on a reduced schedule b...

A former Manager of Quality Assurance at Walmart is again receiving Long Term Disability (LTD) benefits following an appeal filed by Dell Disability Lawyers. Our now client was only recently hired by Walmart in May of 2017. He loved his job and began to shine at his occupation until he unfortunately suffered a serious shoulder injury in late 2017. After this initial shoulder injury, additional injuries ...

Our client is a former Mental Health Epidemiologist who unfortunately suffered the progressive onset of pervasive fatigue, malaise, muscle aches, headaches, difficulty with concentration/focus, difficulty with information processing, and depression. Her symptoms were attributed to the medical diagnoses of chronic fatigue syndrome / Myalgic encephalomyelitis by her treating phy...

Our client, came to us when he was unjustly denied his claim for LTD benefits by Aetna, now Hartford, asserting that his medical records did not demonstrate “a consistent inability to perform [his] sedentary occupation”.  Aetna abused its discretion in reaching this determination as its decision was not only wrong but arbitrary and capricious and was not based on a fu...

With financial protections afforded to disability insurance companies under ERISA that insulate them from extra contractual damages there is very little financial disincentive to deny long term disability benefits to an insured. This is especially true of disability applicants who are high wage earners whose resulting monthly disability benefits are extremely high. In our experience, insurance companies will g...

If your disability insurance claim has ever been denied you will have received a formal denial letter from your insurance carrier in which you are advised as to the basis of the denial as well as provided guidelines set forth by ERISA as to the filing of an administrative appeal to challenge the denial of benefits. The most important of these ERISA guidelines is the notification that you have 180 days from the...

On December 8th of 2020, a new employee at ServerCentral, now known as Deft, a well-known IT infrastructure provider, found himself in the Emergency Room due to facial numbness and confusion.  This ER visit was unfortunately not something new for him as he had just been there two weeks prior in late November due to a headache and dizziness. With this visit ...

Our client was a service manager for Tire Kingdom, due to years of working on his feet he developed chronic back pain and shooting pain down his legs. Also, he had begun experiencing worsening memory and post-concussion headaches and orientation problems likely from some earlier head injury. Due to these surmounting problems, he was forced to stop work...

Our client found us after she was denied continued disability insurance benefits by the Hartford.  Unfortunately, by the time she found us, she had already filed an appeal, which was unfortunately denied. This left her with a final avenue of filing an ERISA lawsuit in Federal Court, a task we never shy away from.Her story was an interesting one. In fact, h...

Our client was a former in-store merchandising associate responsible for the movement of merchandise, display set up, signage installation, inventory and merchandising strategies who went out on disability due to mental health conditions as well as physical medical conditions related to chronic back pain, SI joint pain and hip pain that potentially required repl...

Our client, Mr. E, formerly worked as an Escalation Engineer for a national data services and data management company. For many years Mr. E suffered from chronic debilitating effects of multiple physical conditions and ailments, including Chronic Intractable Migraines, which left him with debilitating physical and cognitive impairments. Mr. E was unwilling to give up his career and worked a...

Our client was a 58 year old private client advisor for JP Morgan Chase Bank. He was forced to stop working due to squamos cell carcinoma of the mandibular jaw. He underwent numerous operations on his jaw including reconstruction, tracheostomy and postoperative radiation therapy. Apart from chronic pain suffers dysphagia and is limited in terms of...

Our firm represents a general surgeon who can no longer perform surgeries on a full-time basis due to multiple spinal surgeries as well as a previous shoulder injury. The surgeries he has undergone are as follows:Left L5-S1 micro-discectomy June 2012Right C6-C7 ACDF May 2013Left C5-C6 ACDF June 20173 level lumbar laminectomy/decompression M...

Our client, a former high level medical sales representative, suffered from chronic pain stemming from his neck, back and hip that would eventually result in multiple surgeries to include lumbar fusion, cervical fusion and sacroiliac joint fusion. He initially filed his claim for disability benefits at age 62 due to the increasing pain he was experiencing, which...

Rachel Alters of Dell Disability Attorney’s currently represents an Ambulatory Operations Pharmacy Manager at the University of Missouri who recently suffered an acute retinal detachment leading to multiple corrective surgeries which unfortunately failed. She is an accomplished medical professional and health system executive with not only a doctor of pha...

Our client, a former elementary school teacher in Broward County Florida was forced to stop working to undergo lower back surgery with a fusion. Prior to the scheduled surgery he pre-emptively filed a short-term disability claim with MetLife, which was approved prior to his surgery. Despite the surgery being a “success”, it did not alleviate his pain complet...

Despite suffering with chronic knee and back pain for 7 Years, Unum still needed to be convinced that their disability benefit denial was wrong.Prior to filing her claim for LTD benefits, our client had worked for 13 years as a Billing Manager for an Accounting Firm in New Hampshire. Unfortunately, for some time she suffered from lower back issues that mad...