Last week the Court of Appeals found that Liberty Mutual failed to consider and discuss evidence of the claimant's ("Nancy") evidence of her long-term disability. Nancy worked for one employer for more than twenty years in a variety of positions including bank teller,...
Month: July 2009
The effect of past work
Social Security applications require information regarding work performed by the claimant in the past fifteen years. Most claimants are not working at the time, but this information is a critical part of the disability analysis.A claimant's past work is relevant to...
Prudential will now be confronted at trial with evidence of our client’s disability
In a recent decision in favor of our client, the Court of Appeals remanded and instructed the district court that it "needs to know whether depression ever disabled [our client]. If the answer is no-either because his mental condition never was disabling, or because...
Prudential’s doctors now subject to scrutiny
A nice surprise was waiting for me upon return from vacation this morning. Our client, "Paul", received a decision from the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in his favor. Paul enjoys disability insurance as a fringe benefit of his job. He stopped working in June 2002...