Category: Recent News

The Treasury Dept. and IRS have launched a web portal for individuals to file with the government to make sure they get their coronavirus stimulus payments, especially those with dependent children ...

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Partners Justin C. Frankel and Jason A. Newfield have been selected to the New York Metro Super Lawyers list as two of the top New York metro area lawyers for 2019. Both Mr. Frankel and Mr. Newfield...

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A mild winter is usually followed by an increase in the number of ticks in the spring and summer. This summer, the number of ticks that carry several disease have increased, as have the number of ti...

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Our clients include people who are disabled by severe migraine headaches, so we are pleased to see this news item that the FDA has approved a drug that treats this condition. As reported in NBC New...

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A Federal Judge in Alabama has taken Mutual of Omaha to task for its denial of a long-term disability insurance claim governed under ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act). Followi...

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Lyme disease makes about 300,000 people sick every year. It is caused by bacteria – Borrellia bacteria – that lives inside common ticks and is transmitted to humans by tick bites. Treatment is u...

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Our disability law firm has been warning clients about posting on social media since the years when Facebook was one of only a few social media platforms. Long term disability insurance companies ar...

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A Federal Judge in New York has ordered Aetna to trial in an ERISA disability claim, after denying its efforts to have the Court grant judgment in its favor on a group long term disability insurance...

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Fifteen years ago, two young lawyers made the decision to leave the disability law firm they were working at to start their own law firm. They had families, mortgages and bills to pay, but the two l...

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A recent decision by a Federal Judge in North Carolina supports such a line of thinking. Here, the Court determined that Aetna failed to properly consider subjective evidence (a common theme of Aetna)...

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