Under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), claims administrators evaluate disability applications for disability insurance companies. Claims administrators often deny those who deserve long term disability due to conflicts of interest, even when...
Choosing Long Term Disability Insurance
Long Term Disability Attorneys No matter how healthy we seem now or how able-bodied we are, aren't we all just one accident or illness away from being unable to work? There's one big employer-provided benefit that many employees fail to take advantage of and it's long...
Do you need a Long Term Disability Attorney?
It is absolutely in your best interests to hire a long term disability attorney if you're not able to work due to injury or illness and your long term disability insurance company is denying your benefits. It's important to remember that unlike the federal government...
Our ERISA Attorney’s Can Help When the Insurance Company Wants Money Back
When your insurance company sends you a payout for your disability insurance, like most people, you assume that check is safe to spend. That's why it may come as a shock when weeks or even months later the insurance company sends you a letter demanding repayment of...
Liberty Mutual Cheats Disability Claimants
Fresno, California - August, 2015 - ERISA Law Group, LLP, a California-based law firm representing disability claimants throughout the United States, has uncovered a scheme by Liberty Mutual Insurance Company to cheat claimants of their disability benefits,...
Liberty, MetLife and Standard Insurance Companies Improperly Reduce Benefits
Fresno, California - September, 2015 - ERISA Law Group, LLP, a California-based law firm representing disability claimants throughout the United States, has uncovered a practice of unlawfully reducing disability benefits for California claimants. California law...
Tactics Employed by Disability Insurance Companies
It shouldn't come as a surprise that long-term disability claims cost insurance companies a great deal of money. It's why they work so hard to find reasons to deny those claims. Though you see them as benefits that are rightfully yours, those that you contracted for...
Seeing Your Doctor
QUESTION: I'm currently receiving disability benefits. How often do I need to see my doctor? We hear this question quite often from our clientele. With your medical background serving as your base of proof of your ongoing disability, obviously routine visits to your...
Questions Regarding Disability Insurance Claims
It isn't unusual for our clients to have a variety of questions when filing an ERISA appeal. The world of disability insurance is deliberately set up to be confusing and complicated. The more the insurance companies can dissuade you from filing, or keep you from doing...
Regional Facilities Manager Triumphs Over Aetna
REGIONAL FACILITIES MANAGER WITH PELVIC PAIN TRIUMPHS OVER AETNA, WHICH UNREASONABLY DENIED BENEFITS. Following the birth of her child in 2006, Victoria Wong began to experience back, leg and groin issues that would often cause her to double-over in pain. Unable to...