Success With Disability Claims for Dementia

Success With Disability Claims for Dementia

Bartolic Law has helped clients suffering from early onset of various forms of Dementia get their long-term disability claims paid. We have helped with challenging insurers’ denial of claims, and filing lawsuits over denied claims. In one case, our client had a rapid onset of Dementia, but the client’s doctors had not yet reached a conclusive diagnosis of the cause of the client’s rapid decline. The client’s cognitive abilities rapidly faded, and the client even lost the ability to verbally communicate. We worked with the client’s family members, one of whom obtained a power of attorney for the client, to perform the appeal and show the extent of the client’s symptoms, despite lack of a diagnosis yet. We were able to get the claim paid before the doctors even diagnosed the client with Dementia. In another case, our client suffered from early onset Alzheimer’s Disease following numerous grand mal seizures.

The insurer helped our client obtain Social Security disability benefits under a compassionate allowance for early onset Alzheimer’s Disease, but then disputed the client had that ailment. We first persuaded the insurer to pay the claim. Then after paying the claim for two years, the insurer asserted the client’s symptoms were caused by depression, rather than the early onset Alzheimer’s Disease, despite instructing a Social Security advocate to assert the Alzheimer’s Disease. We demonstrated that in the diagnostic testing, doctors performed certain testing that distinguishes between forms of dementia and depression in causing the symptomology. After these efforts, we recovered the benefits for the client, which provided at least one fewer source of stress for the family.