We have all been there at some point in our lives. A promise is made. A promise is broken. We feel cheated, and maybe even a little hurt. When you feel that you operate from a place of honesty, and others do not, the entire experience can be disillusioning. In their simplest form, disability insurance […]
It should come as no surprise that doctors want to practice medicine. Doctors do not want to complete claims forms or be dragged into litigation. No one knows this better than ERISA disability insurance companies. In fact, among the many strategies used to stack the odds in their favor, ERISA disability insurers will often send […]
On March 5, 2015, an en banc panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued its decision in Rochow v. Life Insurance Company of North America, Inc., 780 F.3rd 364 (2015). (A copy of the decision is available here, Rochow v. LINA En Banc.) Previously, the Sixth Circuit affirmed a […]
Insurance companies can make the processing of a long-term disability claim unimaginably difficult. When a disability insurance company issues a written denial, its reasoning can seem insulting, insensitive, even callous. Litigation is always available as a means of holding difficult disability insurance companies accountable. However, it is often more effective to take active measures in […]
Disability insurance claimants are attracting online ‘friends’ they could do without. There has been an increase in the number of cases involving the premature termination or denial of long-term disability insurance benefits owing to a claimant’s imprudent use of social media. Now, the administrative service contracts of many disability insurance plans include, as a […]
On October 28, 2014, Mary Williams Walsh, a New York Times journalist who has been chronicling the nation’s public pension crisis, reported on a case in which JJ Conway Law is one of the law firms representing the plaintiffs. Appearing on the front page of the New York Times Business Section, the paper published an […]
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