March 2014 Archives

We were dismayed to read a news article about guidelines on pain medication use by a company that we have seen in many of our litigated cases. Equally disturbing was the fact that this particular grou...

A Federal Court in Louisiana has determined that Met Life failed to provide a long term disability insurance claimant with a full and fair review, where it denied the claimant's appeal for a different...

A Federal judge in Kansas has refused a request by an insurer (UNUM) to permit the filing of what it classifies as "confidential" information under seal. The Judge correctly noted that the decision wh...

Sit more, and you increase the likelihood of becoming disabled, according to a new study from Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. The study, published in the Journal of Physical ...

In a decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the Court reversed a decision on a disability matter that is interesting for its fact pattern as well as result. An extrem...