December 2010 Archives

Long term care insurance policies, marketed heavily in recent years as a way to protect older persons and provide financial benefits where they are no longer able to care for themselves, have seen a p...

The 2010 mid-year summary of Group Disability Market results offers some interesting insight into the marketplace for LTD benefits. This survey is published by JHA - a division of Gen Re, a Berkshire ...

It has been suggested by industry insiders that the demand for critical illness insurance will be a major growth opportunity in 2011. This type of insurance typically pays a lump sum benefit following...

If you spend any time on the Disability Insurance Forums, you'll learn first-hand how badly the disability insurance companies treat their claimants, and read heartbreaking stories about women and men...

CIGNA had attempted to terminate our client's claim for long term disability benefits, a claim in which they had previously terminated, only to voluntarily reinstate benefits while in litigation, back...

Another court has offered insight into how to determine when a claim administrator acts in an arbitrary and capricious manner. A Federal Judge in Michigan determined that Sedgwisk, a third party admi...

Peter Orszag, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget from 2009 to July 2010, a distinguished visiting fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a contributing columnist for T...

In a disturbing decision from a Federal Judge, one court has permitted a long term disability insurance company to hide the identity of its medical reviewers who provided the insurance company with o...

News that the Texas Department of Insurance has adopted a new rule prohibiting the inclusion of discretionary clauses in disability insurance policies makes us right proud of our southwestern neighbor...