May 2014 Archives

The longer the current low interest rate environment continues, the harder the pinch that long term disability insurance companies are feeling. It’s all relative, but our concern is the impact that it has on claimants. Unum Group executives recently held a conference call with securities analysts to review first quarter earnings for 2014. The massive […]

Our client is a 52-year old woman who worked as an Assistant Branch Manager for a bank of a major financial institution. She stopped working in 2011 after suffering injuries in a car accident that exacerbated an already bad spinal condition and fibromyalgia. Our client spent thirty years building her career, and would have easily […]

A Federal Judge in Washington has decided that Met Life’s claim determination, to deny a claim for long term disability insurance benefits, must be reversed, where it determined that the claim decision was an abuse of discretion. The claimant, a former flight attendant for American Airlines, suffered from pulmonary dysfunction and headaches. Her claim was […]