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Common Pitfalls When Filing Long Term Disability Claims

Filing a claim for long term disability benefits can be challenging.  As if dealing with debilitating symptoms were not difficult enough, disability insureds are forced to fill out detailed application forms, obtain statements from their doctors, and gather their medical records.  They must also have the wherewithal to avoid  insurance company traps and errors that […]
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Hiller, PC Wins Disability Benefits for Attorney with Long COVID

Our client, an accomplished Attorney, contracted COVID-19 on two occasions approximately six months apart.  Unfortunately, she never fully recovered following her second COVID-19 infection.  Even after she cleared the active infection, she continued to experience symptoms such as severe fatigue, post-exertional malaise, exercise intolerance, cognitive problems, dizziness, joint pain throughout her body, cardiac problems (such […]
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Neuropsychological Evaluations: Proving Your Entitlement to Long Term Disability Insurance Benefits

Medical conditions that cause problems with memory, concentration, attention, speed of processing information, etc. can be particularly disturbing.  Not only can these symptoms make it difficult for you to successfully perform your job duties, but in severe cases, they can disrupt your activities of daily living.  Nonetheless, disabilities due to cognitive impairments are often difficult […]
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Success Stories

Success Stories Comprehensive Benefit Consultants, Inc. v. Spitz,, 2014 N.Y. Slip Op. 07321 (2d Dep’t. Oct. 29, 2014) Our client was sued by his former employer for allegedly violating a covenant not to compete.  The former employer filed a motion for a preliminary injunction.  While our client was being represented by other counsel, the Supreme […]
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Ask Your New York Commercial Litigation Lawyer About Alternative Dispute Resolution

If you are involved in a New York commercial litigation dispute, you may choose to resolve your claim through the traditional route of a courtroom trial, or you may choose an alternative means of dispute resolution. The two most common forms of alternative dispute resolution (“ADR”) are mediation and arbitration. In comparison to a trial, both arbitration […]
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Coerced Confessions Unconstitutional: Florida v. Chambers (1940)

Seventy-five (75) years ago today, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Florida v. Chambers that confessions obtained through coercion are inadmissible at trial. The circumstances of the coercion in Chambers weren’t especially brutal; there was no evidence of beatings, threats, deprivation of food or water, water-boarding or other misconduct which is often associated with confessions brought about by […]
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I Am Disabled. What Do I Do?

Imagine that you suffer an injury, or experience the onset or exacerbation of an illness, that makes it difficult for you to do your job.  You visit your doctor who informs you that, due to your condition(s), you cannot work.  Worse, you may never be able to return to your prior occupation, because the condition(s) […]
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10 Signs that You Have Been Targeted for Termination by Your Disability Insurer

Disability insurance carriers terminate/deny long-term disability insurance claims routinely. Most insureds are in the dark regarding their insurers’ intentions and are left to wonder whether theirs will be the next claim to be terminated. Having practiced in this area for many years, we’ve come to recognize those red-flags that signify that an insured’s claim has […]
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Leland v. Oregon – Insanity Defense

53 years ago today, the US Supreme Court decided Leland v. Oregon, ruling that requiring a criminal defendant to bear the burden of proving insanity beyond a reasonable doubt does not violate the Constitution.  That may not seem important or even complicated, but it is.  Why?  Because the Supreme Court has consistently ruled that the prosecution is obligated under our Constitution […]
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