March 2012 Archives

As experienced long term disability insurance policy lawyers, we have a lot of experience with what we call the "critical points" of a disability insurance policy - the provisions in the policies that...

Another judge has criticized CIGNA for its claim handling of long term disability insurance claimants, determining that the decision to deny benefits to a man suffering from significant orthopedic imp...

A Federal judge has awarded benefits to a long term disability insurance claimant, whose claim had previously been before the Court. Originally, the Court remanded the claim back to the administrator ...

A Federal Judge has overturned a long term disability insurance claim, finding that Mutual of Omaha acted improperly in terminating a claim on the basis of a lack of significant change in the disabili...

A growing trend seen in long term disability insurance claims is an insurers' request for a claimant to undergo a Functional Capacity Evaluation ("FCE"). However, for several reasons, attending an FCE...