Long Term Disability Law BlogBeing a loyal client of a disability insurance company is no guarantee that the disability insurance company will honor its end of the bargain when it comes to having to pay you disability benefits upon you making a legitimate claim. In the case of Robert Goldstein v Provident Life & Accident Insurance Company (Provident Life), […]
MetLife won’t pay disability insurance benefits to former MetLife agency director
Having to live with chronic pain as result of a work related injury can, at best, make life difficult for a person. Living with chronic pain that renders a person completely and totally disabled along with the added emotional and mental stress of trying to make a claim for short-term and long-term disability benefits can […]
Lincoln National Life Insurance Company caught up in a conflict of interest in denying disability benefits to Florida man
Richard Bone and his Florida disability attorney have a proverbial bone to pick with Lincoln National Life Insurance Company (Lincoln). Lincoln denied Mr. Bone’s claim for long-term disability benefits under a group plan governed by ERISA that Mr. Bone had with his employer. Mr. Bone and his Florida disability lawyer were left with no choice […]
An Incorrect Calculation of Disability Benefits and Subsequent Termination of Those Same Benefits Doesn’t Sway Tenth Circuit to Reverse Decision in Favor of MetLife
A MetLife insured benefit receiver’s hopes of collecting his underpaid disability payments were squashed when the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals denied his appeal on March 16, 2011. Michael Palmer, the plaintiff in Palmer v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, filed a lawsuit against Metropolitan Life Insurance for the underpayment and subsequent termination of his disability […]
Prudential Insurance Company Denies Long Term Disability Benefits To Man Despite Two Back Surgeries
Robert Hamill has been denied his long term disability benefits since August 2009. Having exhausted all avenues of collection of his disability benefits, Hamill and his disability attorney filed a lawsuit against Prudential Insurance Company on February 14, 2011 in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of Richmond. Prudential was served […]