Published by The Pellegrin Firm December 17, 2019
In a recent decision dated December 4, 2019, a federal district court in Maryland returned a favorable decision for a claimant seeking long-term disability benefits for her fibromyalgia.
Published by The Pellegrin Firm December 3, 2019
Posting on social media can be dangerous if you have filed or are thinking about filing a long-term disability claim. It is now standard operating procedure among long-term disability insurers to check a claimant’s social media history in the hopes of finding anything that may contradict a claimant’s allegations of disability.
Published by The Pellegrin Firm August 20, 2019
In 1974, Congress passed the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), which granted claimants a cause of action in federal court for benefits wrongfully-denied pursuant to employer-sponsored retirement plans, disability insurance, life-insurance plans, and other various types of employer-provided benefits.