According to news reports, eleven employees of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), including two doctors and seven retirees, are just the tip of the iceberg of a disability fraud scheme that has the potential to cost the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) as much as $1 billion. The alleged scheme took advantage of a massive […]

With the exception of an IRS audit, few requests for information are as unpleasant as a letter from the disability insurance company asking for complete financial disclosure. If the disability insurance payments are based on practice income, in the case of a claim for partial disability or residual disability benefits, the request for financial disclosure […]

The 2011 Council for Disability Awareness Long-Term Disability Claims Review is an annual review of LTD claims by the Council for Disability Awareness – an association of fourteen of the largest Long Term Disability insurance companies. The study looks at claims data gathered by the organization from 2010, seeking to identify continuing and new trends. […]