December 2016 Archives

In an aptly-titled article, “The next healthcare crisis: Changes in way Medicare pays doctors,” the New York Daily News reports on a piece of federal legislation that has quietly passed with little fanfare that we feel poses a real threat to how disabled patients are treated. The Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA) is […]

In many of the ERISA long term disability insurance benefits cases at Frankel & Newfield, the vocational analysis used to evaluate the tasks and duties of claimants are so far off that they seem to have been taken from books dating back to what might feel like another century. You expect that the disability insurance […]