An inadvertent ambiguity in an insurance policy can be costly as Federal Insurance Co. learned in Tyll v. Stanley Black & Decker Life Insurance Program, 2019 WL 3081061 (D. Conn. July 12, 2019). There, the court resolved a motion for summary judgment seeking a determination as to the amount of business travel accident insurance owed […]
If your long-term disability claim has been denied, you should not take “no” as the insurance company’s final answer. In most circumstances, you have the right to submit an appeal challenging the benefit denial; and if the appeal is unsuccessful, a wrongfully denied claim may be litigated in court. What most people don’t realize, though, […]
Life and accidental death insurance policies can be an important part of an individual’s financial planning to provide security for their families.
The rationale behind the purchase of disability insurance is to provide an economic safeguard against unforeseen sickness or accidental injury. When misfortune occurs, economic hardship results. And if benefits are denied without justification, the premiums invested in insurance coverage appear worthless. All is not lost, though, because there are ways to fight back. Step 1: […]
DeBofsky Law won a victory in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in a case entitled Lacko v. United of Omaha Life Ins. Co., 2019 WL 2439786 (7th Cir. June 12, 2019). The plaintiff, Shirley Lacko, stopped working as a senior auditing manager for an accounting firm when the effects of multiple chronic impairments […]