March 2017 Archives

This is the season when we start opening windows and cleaning out the garage, getting rid of all the old stuff that’s been hanging around since the fall. Something to add to that spring cleaning to-do list: your disability insurance policy. Not the first thing on your mind, right? We get that. But if you […]

A Federal Judge in Colorado has awarded benefits to a claimant suffering from viral hepatitis and chronic cirrhosis of the liver, after determining that Reliance Standard failed to appropriately consider the claim and the medical evidence supportive of impairment. The claimant, who worked as the Director of Industry Marketing, was required to represent the company […]

Thanks to Dentist’s Money Digest for featuring an article by Jason Newfield on the challenges faced by dentists (and other medical professionals) when a long-term disability insurance claim prompts a request for financial records. As reported in the article, when the disability insurance payments are based on practice income, the request for financial records doesn’t […]