Our Resolved Disability Insurance Claims

Prior to contacting our office, our client filed a claim for long term disability benefits under his individual disability insurance policy with MetLife on account of de Quervain’s Tenosynovitis, a condition affecting the tendons of the thumb and wrist that resulted in severe pain in his dominant hand, especially with grasping. Given the nature of his occupation as a Dentist, and the fact his condition was a...

Our client, an Emergency Room Physician, had a long history of complications due to Crohn’s disease, which stemmed all the way back to his childhood. Despite persistent, recurring bouts of distress and flare ups associated with the disease he was able to finish college, then medical school, followed by residency and ultimately finding himself in an extremely active emergency room for a major hospital system....

Liberty Mutual Initially Approves Disability Claim After Finding Total Disability From Own OccupationOur client, John, was working as a Chemical Supervisor for Arkema, Inc., a French specialty chemicals and advanced materials company, when in 2015 he was forced to stop working due to chronic pain in his cervical and lumbar spine relating to degenerative disk disease and post laminectomy syndrome.John f...

A recent denial overturned by Prudential illustrates the value of having an attorney manage your claim for you in the long run.Since March 31, 2012, Ms. V has been unable to perform the material and substantial duties of her regular occupation or any occupation. Benefits were initially paid to Ms. V due to her debilitating pain; however, almost immediately, Prudential began its attempts to categorize Ms. V...

Prior to contacting our office, our client was having little success in securing his disability insurance benefits under his privately purchased individual disability policy with Northwestern Mutual. Our client, the sole owner and employee of a small lawn care business, suffered an eye injury that required surgery and left his vision severly compromised. Left with only one properly functioning eye his doctor a...

Gastrointestinal issues are very common and often conditions that people don’t like to discuss in detail. They are also often downplayed by disability carriers as conditions that are not disabling as long as the claimant can take bathroom breaks. Insurance companies will regularly ignore the secondary issues that come along with having even minor gastrointestinal problems.One of our clients recently cont...

Our client was previously employed as a Computer Systems Engineer. In this occupation, he was responsible for support and maintenance of a real-time system that allows pipeline controllers to monitor pipelines across the United States. Unfortunately for him, he was suffering from Lumbar Discogenic and Facetogenic Pain, Lumbar Radiculopathy, Cervical Spine Pain Status Post Fusion, and Piriformis Syndrome, and r...

Our client, Mr. K, formerly worked as an Account Representative for an international brokerage firm. In May 2017 a number of medical issues, including the debilitating effects of chronic congestive heart failure, arteriosclerotic heart disease of native coronary artery, chest pain forced Mr. K to stop working and submit his claim for disability benefits first under his employer’s short-term disability (STD) ...

Our client was previously employed as a Registered Nurse at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in California. She worked faithfully there since 2007. Being a nurse was more than a job, it was her life. Unfortunately for our client, she was forced to stop working in July 2016 when the pain from her lower back issues made it impossible for her to continue to work as a Nurse. She also suffered from depression,...

Our client, Mr. M, formerly worked as a trade consultant for an international accounting firm. In May 2017 a large lumbar disc herniation forced Mr. M to stop working and submit his claim for disability benefits first under his employer’s STD policy, which paid full benefits, then under its Long-Term Disability (“LTD”) Policy which was administered and funded by Hartford. Under the employer’s disabilit...

Mr. S contacted our firm for help fighting CIGNA after receiving a letter cutting off his benefits. He had received less than a year of benefits when CIGNA scheduled an Independent Medical Examination (IME) due to a lack of response from Mr. S’s treating physicians.Some carriers, like CIGNA, will immediately exercise their right to schedule an IME if they request claim forms from doctors and do not recei...

Our client, a former Liberty Mutual employee, has had a less than ideal experience with Liberty - both as an employee and as a recipient of disability insurance benefits. Issues she experienced in the workplace as a Liberty employee resulted in exacerbation of existing behavioral health issues that made her workplace environment so volatile she filed for disability benefits in order to take herself out of a ha...

Mr. A contacted our firm after being denied benefits by his employer’s group disability carrier, MetLife. He had been working as a supervisor for a large manufacturer of heavy duty automotive components. His job required him to perform prolonged physical activities like climbing, kneeling, standing, pulling grasping, lifting and working with various tools.He was suffering from a long list of medical cond...

Our client, a high level Program Manager for a large international aeronautics company, was involved in an automobile accident that resulted in physical and emotional injuries, which impacted her ability to meet the demands of her job. Prior to hiring our office she filed her application for short term disability benefits under her employer’s disability insurance plan with Unum. From the onset of her short t...

Claimant in this case was a Senior Systems Engineer with the EMC Corporation. He had a long history of suffering with chronic migraine headaches. As time went by, the headaches worsened in frequency and severity and were accompanied by photophobia, phonophobia, nausea, and vomiting. In the previous two years before he filed his claim, he had also faced the stress of being diagnosed with kidney cancer and under...

Our client, Ms. D, formerly worked as a professor for at a college. In January 2016 a number of co-morbid physical conditions and ailments forced Ms. D to stop working and submit her claim for disability benefits under her employer’s Long-Term Disability (“LTD”) Policy administered and funded by Lincoln. Under the employer’s disability policy Ms. D would be considered totally disabled if she was unable...

On August 26, 1988, our now client was hired by the Worth County School District. She worked as the School Nutrition Manager, essentially a Cafeteria Manager, where she managed a staff of 8 and ordered, served, and prepped food for students. For over 27 years, our now client worked consistently at a job she clearly enjoyed that became her life. Unfortunately for her, at the age of 58, various medical condition...

Prior to becoming disabled, our client had worked at Grady Management, Inc., a well-respected full service real estate firm in Maryland, since April of 1978. For 37+ years, our client worked for Grady and worked his way up to become the Vice President of Priority Engineering Services. Obviously his work at Grady was more than a job, it was his life. Unfortunately for our client, serious medical conditions inte...

Our client, Ms. A, formerly worked as an executive assistant for a town administrator. In April 2014 a number of co-morbid physical conditions and ailments forced Ms. A to stop working and submit her claim for disability benefits under her employer’s Long-Term Disability (“LTD”) Policy which was administered and funded by Aetna. Under the employer’s disability policy Ms. A would be considered totally d...

Our client, an accomplished outside salesman, had built a stellar reputation in his industry after building his company over a period of many years and then after he sold the business to an international company, and continued to work in his capacity as a salesman. Throughout his entire career he was always focused on building relationships with his clients and despite his role as the owner, was always traveli...