We helped a former management consultant suffering from Fibromyalgia demonstrate a physical disability, avoiding MetLife imposing a 24-month limitation on mental health disabilities. Despite early symptoms being treated as Depression, the client’s doctors continued workup and ultimately diagnosed the client with Fibromyalgia. It is common to begin a disability claim with a working diagnosis, or…
In one case, our client suffered from chronic back pain and received a disability award from the Social Security Administration. After Mutual of Omaha disregarded an existing functional capacity evaluation, and focused on features it should have contained, we had the client obtain another addressing all the criticism. After relying on its own medical director’s…
A client suffering from lumbar radiculopathy who performed physically demanding work. Reliance terminated long-term disability benefits contending the client could perform sedentary work in other occupations. Using a two-pronged approach, we both demonstrated the client could not perform his prior work or seated work physically, and we used vocational evidence to show the only occupations…
Our client was a sales representative experiencing signs of early onset dementia. Getting such a claim approved is critical because of the general inability to become insured under another policy. We portrayed our client in a respectful way that still highlighted her cognitive decline, utilizing witness accounts from family members regarding daily observations and precautionary…
A client suffering from lumbar radiculopathy who performed physically demanding work. Reliance terminated long-term disability benefits contending the client could perform sedentary work in other occupations. Using a two-pronged approach, we both demonstrated the client could not perform his prior work or seated work physically, and we used vocational evidence to show the only occupations…
Sedgwick denied long-term disability benefits to a clinical pharmacist suffering from Fibromyalgia. As a clinical pharmacist, the client had to stand most of the day, and work extended shifts. Sedgwick both overstated the client’s physical capacity, and understated the demands of pharmacy work. We combined medical evidence of limitations with vocational evidence of the occupation…
Michael did a simply fantastic job. Excellent legal skills. Well organized and communicates well. I highly recommend this firm.
Michael and his team were extremely helpful with my disability appeal. Michael is smart and his response to my calls or emails was very fast. He always took his time with me explaining the process. I know I would...
Amazing. Professional. Knows every aspect of the law in this area - client rights, case law, etc. highly detail oriented, didn’t miss a data point in thousands of pages of dense data. All while being responsive, personable. Fantastic staff....
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