While the medical community has communicated that many people who get COVID-19 either have no symptoms or a mild case, they have also advised that many experience severe symptoms, even if they do not require hospitalization. Additionally, an increasing number of...
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Disability Insurance Law Group Wins Benefits Under a Cigna Disability Policy for Claimant Suffering From Fibromyalgia
Ms. R. was an executive of a large corporation for over 12 years. She was on track to take over the eastern division of her company. Ms. R. began noticing that during the day, she felt fatigued; however, it was not a normal feeling of being tired. It felt more like a...
Disability Insurance Law Group Appeal Results in Cigna/LINA Overturning Denial of Benefits for Lupus and Fibromyalgia Claim
Our client (Ms. X), a director of credit and collections in New York, hired to assist with her Long-Term disability claim with Cigna. She was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, Lupus, Encephalopathy, Migraine headaches, Chronic Fatigue, Sleep...
MetLife Approval of Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Claim
Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, also referred to as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, are debilitating conditions characterized by feelings of extreme exhaustion, muscle and joint pain, memory problems, brain fog, and problems with concentration. Many of our...
Disability Insurance Law Group Successfully Halts Liberty Mutual’s Attempt to Terminate Disability Benefits with an IME
Ms. "Jones" contacted after being advised by her representative at Liberty Mutual that her claim was being reviewed under the "any occupation" definition of her Long Term Disability Policy. At the time Ms. Jones became disabled she was a...
Liberty Life’s Wrongful Denial of Disability Benefits for Bipolar Disorder and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
In the case, Suson v. The PNC Financial Services Group, INC., No. 15-CV-10817, 2017 WL 3234809, at *1 (N.D. Ill. July 31, 2017), Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston, acting as the Plan administrator for PNC's ERISA disability plan, denied long term disability...
Seventh Circuit Upholds District Court’s Decision that a Claimant with Fibromyalgia was Disabled under her ERISA Governed Disability Plan and Commented on the Disabling Nature of Fibromyalgia.
In a recent case, Kennedy v. The Lilly Extended Disability Plan, No. 16-2314, __F.3d__, 2017 WL 2178091 (7th Cir. May 18, 2017), the Seventh Circuit Court, overturned a disability insurance benefit denial of a claimant with fibromyalgia. The claimant in the Kennedy...
Disability Insurance Law Group Overturns Cigna’s Denial of Disability Benefits in Time for Claimant with Fibromyalgia to Save her Home
Our client, Ms. W, enjoyed a long and successful career as an office manager for a mid-size company. Unfortunately, shortly after receiving a promotion, she began to experience unusual and troubling symptoms such as extreme fatigue, severe pain in her joints,...
Court Determines That Liberty Life Unreasonably Refused To Consider A Claimant’s Subjective Complaints Of Pain In A Disability Insurance Claim Involving Fibromyalgia.
Another district court has found that Liberty Life failed to give a claimant a full and fair review of her claim for long-term disability benefits. Ruth Ann Hare suffered from fibromyalgia, forcing her to leave her physically demanding job and request disability...
Prudential Long Term Disability Denial of Benefits for Fibromyalgia (CFIDS) and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Overturned on Appeal
As those who suffer from medical conditions such as fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome know, these illnesses can incapacitate an individual physically and mentally. No current treatment has proven totally effective against these infirmities and in many cases...