When individuals file disability claims, they often share highly sensitive personal and medical information with disability insurance companies. This includes diagnoses, mental health records, and treatment history. […]
During its most recent term, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a 40-year-old precedent that guided courts in addressing administrative agency interpretations of the laws they regulate. In Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council Inc.,[1] the Supreme Court ruled in 1984 […]
While it is not completely impossible to simultaneously seek disability insurance benefits while also alleging disability discrimination, doing so is fraught with peril for the reasons discussed below. […]
A recent CNN report cited medical research showing that “long Covid creates a higher burden of disability than either heart disease or cancer.” Studies have also found that long Covid has “forced between two million and four million Americans out of the workforce.” […]
Most employee benefit claims involving long-term disability are insured by disability insurance companies. As a result of industry consolidation, there are now only a handful of long-term disability insurers that underwrite group long-term disability insurance. […]
A federal court in California recently took a disability insurer to task for abusing its discretion in denying a disability benefit claim. […]