April 2010 Archives

The law firm of Frankel & Newfield was pleased to show our support for the dental community by participating in this year’s GLIDM. Dentists, orthodontists, periodontists, oral surgeons, dental hygienists, dental practice administrators and others in the dental professional gathered at the Huntington Hilton for a day developed to the arts and science of dentistry. […]

Our client was a 44 year old man from Georgia, working as management consultant for a large financial management firm. He filed a claim for disability insurance when his illness, HIV/AIDs, became too debilitating and he could no longer work. His monthly benefit was sizable – and CIGNA denied his claim from the very start. […]

Disability benefits were being paid to our client, a 51 year old man who was a high performing, high income insurance agent from Colorado. Working in the insurance business is no guarantee that a disability insurance policy claim will go smoothly – there’s no ‘professional courtesy’ in this business. Our client had a host of […]

Good Morning America investigative reporters Chris Cuomo and Gerry Wagschal have reported on several cases on claimants whose benefits were cut off after disability insurance companies used undercover surveillance videos. The response to these reports has been dramatic, and a follow up broadcast aired this week in response to the flood of calls generated by […]

A Federal Court has determined that a claimant suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome satisfied her burden of demonstrating that she was unable to perform the material duties of any occupation, entitling her to reinstatement of her disability insurance benefits. The Court held that the claimant had medical evidence of her condition (CFS), had subjective complaints […]

A Federal Court in Michigan has ordered Met Life to reinstate the claim of a Bearing Point employee, whose claim had been terminated on the basis of a paper review by a well known insurance company provider. The Court took issue with a number of aspects of the claim handling, in reaching the result that […]

As a result of years of repetitive movements and maintaining awkward positions, typically for long hours, dentists tend to have back, shoulder, arm, wrist, hand, head and neck problems. Many find themselves struggling to continue to practice, or completely unable to practice, and so dentists, orthodontists, periodontists and other dental professionals file disability insurance claims. […]