Success Getting Aetna Denials Paid

Bartolic Law has helped many clients get long-term disability benefits paid by Aetna. In one case, our client was a clinical physician with a neck injury and we helped demonstrate to Aetna that the client could not perform the clinical part of the practice that involved performing procedures on patients. For another physician client, we helped show the ongoing and lasting fatigue from an acute medical compromised the physician’s ability to make split-second decisions during surgeries. We helped resolve a case for a client where Aetna tried to deny a long-term disability claim because the employer terminated his employment the day before his disability payments were to begin, with the claim turning on an interpretation of a coverage clause in the plan (after we first persuaded Aetna the client was in fact disabled). Recently, Bartolic Law got a judgment against Aetna [link to Ferrin v. Aetna] where Aetna terminated our client’s disability claim after our client stopped receiving workers’ compensation benefits, which increased Aetna’s monthly payment to the client