How Can We Help? Contact Us
|
Disability Insurance News
-
September 07, 2007
Quadrino Schwartz has obtained a ground-breaking ruling from a federal court certifying a class in a class action against UnumProvident, now called Unum. The federal Judge in Tennessee ruled on September…
Read More »
-
June 29, 2007
Both houses of the New York Legislature have passed a bill that would prohibit insurance companies from denying claims based upon alleged late filing of the claim (late notice). The late notice defense…
Read More »
-
June 28, 2007
In a key court ruling, New York's highest court ruled that disability insurers must pay claimants under group policies who have pre-existing conditions. The insurance company may only exclude the…
Read More »
-
April 14, 2007
Mass Mutual appears to be using the technique of suing claimants for a refund of benefits already paid on a more consistent basis. In these lawsuits, many of which have been sucessfully defended…
Read More »
-
March 31, 2006
Firm Believes Thousands of Policyholders Will be Aided by Decision In a landmark ruling, the New York State Insurance Department has taken critical action to help thousands of New Yorkers who file health…
Read More »
-
September 13, 2005
The Federal judge in Tennessee who is handling most of the UnumProvident class actions in the country has dealt a blow to UnumProvident by refusing to dismiss a number of class actions filed against the…
Read More »
-
January 14, 2005
UnumProvident's employees who owned and held some UnumProvident stock in their 401k plans brought a class action against the company. The federal court presiding over both this class action and the other…
Read More »
-
December 21, 2004
The following story ran across the newswires on December 21, 2004. Despite the upbeat nature of these stories, Quadrino Schwartz urges all potentially affected individuals to get legal advice before…
Read More »
-
November 20, 2004
UnumProvident has reached a settlement, as part of a multistate government investigation, to reconsider 215,000 denied disability claims. Quadrino Schwartz began the fight against UnumProvident in…
Read More »
-
November 19, 2004
A Federal Appeals Court has ruled that discovery and full bench trials in ERISA governed benefit claims are appropriate where people who sue for a denied claim present sufficient evidence of a claims administrators’…
Read More »
-
October 29, 2004
In many ERISA cases, courts can only overturn a denial of benefits if the decision of the "plan administrator" (often an insurance company) was arbitrary and capricious. Many of the federal courts,…
Read More »
-
June 28, 2004
In a stinging and thorough opinion, a federal judge in Massachusetts awarded disability benefits to a law firm that had brought a claim on behalf of one if its former employees. In the decision, the Court…
Read More »
-
June 25, 2004
In a well-publicized decision in California in 2002, a jury in a federal court rendered a $5 million punitive damage award to a former chiropractor to punish two of UnumProvident's subsidiaries, Provident…
Read More »
-
May 28, 2004
The Seventh Circuit held that AIG's reimbursement claim for wrongly paid benefits was "legal" in nature and AIG is only afforded remedies under ERISA that are "equitable" in nature.…
Read More »
-
May 28, 2004
The carrier relied on the results of an exercise stress test to deny the claim. The claimant had submitted medical records from his treating cardiologist indicating that his blood pressure was elevated…
Read More »
|
