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Calculating the Long Term Disability Buyout

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If your long-term disability insurance claim has been approved, you are receiving monthly benefits provided under the terms of your policy. Monthly disability benefits usually are provided either to age 65 or lifetime. Some claimants prefer to accelerate those payments and receive a lump sum buyout … [Read more...]

Surveillance Practices in Long Term Disability Cases

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At Bourhis Law Group, we often receive calls from claimants scared that they are being watched and followed by their insurance companies.  In truth, this is a very common practice in the insurance industry and it is, for the most part, completely legal.  Insurance fraud costs insurance companies … [Read more...]

What? I’m being sued by my insurance company?

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The broad question is what are the things you have to watch out for when you’re filing a claim and what should you do?  Do insurance companies conduct surveillance?  Yes.  Do they run around with cameras trying to see if you can carry groceries from the grocery store to the car? If you can carry … [Read more...]

Underpayment Offers from Long-Term Disability Insurance Companies

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Underpayment of claims is, sadly, a very common practice. One of the typical methods of underpayment is the purchase of policy benefits by the insurance company. The company will run calculations in order to be able to do offer that as a fairly speedy resolution to the disability claim. For … [Read more...]

Why Long-Term Disability Insurers Say “No”

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A long list of reasons to say no……. There is, sadly, a long list of all of the reasons why insurance companies deny or underpay a claim.  They don’t always simply say okay, we’re going to send you to an independent medical examination and our doctor is gonna conclude that he disagrees with your … [Read more...]

Beware of the “Partial” Long-Term Disability Claim

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Disabilities and the people who suffer them come in all shapes and sizes. Typical occupations of people we represent would include surgeons, anesthesiologists, all of the medical sub specialties, micro surgeons, lawyers, chiropractors, CEOs of companies, financial planners, CPAs, really anyone who … [Read more...]

Partial Long-Term Disability Benefits: hard to define in California

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For surgeons and other physicians, partial long-term disability benefits may seem like a good solution but the way the benefits are determined is flawed. Partial benefits are based on a formula and very soon after the claim is filed the formula starts to disintegrate and someone may wind up in a … [Read more...]

Dealing with a Long Term Disability Claim

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Who should I talk to if I think I have a problem? Well, often a policy holder when he/she notices that things are changing and that he/she may have to make an insurance claim contacts the insurance agent that sold them the policy in the first place. While that can be good, it can also be bad for … [Read more...]

Own Occupancy Insurance Policies

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Own Occupancy Insurance is a policy that is sold that covers someone if he or she is unable to perform his/her normal duties in his/her own occupation. The technical definition of disability with an Own Occupation policy is you’re unable to perform your substantial and material duties in a usual and … [Read more...]

Total Disability vs. Residual Disability

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  By Long Term Disability Lawyer Ray Bourhis Many long term disability insurance policies contain provisions regarding both Total and Residual (Partial) Disability benefits. Typically, the policies define Total Disability as the inability to perform the substantial and material duties of … [Read more...]

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