Denied Disability Benefits?

It is a common story: You never imagined you would someday need to file a claim for disability benefits; benefits that you earned.

Those benefits would always be needed by someone else. Until you did. And it hasn’t been easy.

You took pride in your work and you did your job well. It gave you a sense of worth, of identity, of being a part of something. And your disability took that away from you.

There is pain of injury and disease, frustration at having a diagnosis but not healing. There is loss of function. Once easy things become hard to do, if done at all, and what was once a hard thing, cannot be done. There is stress, too much stress.

But perhaps the worst shock is the loss of dignity and self-respect you felt when your claim was denied. You weren’t believed. That, more than anything, has haunted you; you doubt yourself, your self-esteem is frayed.

If you’re my client, I believe you.

I know all this because I saw it on the faces of disability claimants whose cases I adjudicated over the 17 years I served as a federal Administrative Law Judge. I heard the stories of anger and frustration and loss of hope. I witnessed the pain and loss of function. I asked of the economic devastation caused by loss of income.

And perhaps most disturbingly, there was always the never-ending, nearly intolerable stress that characterized their lives. It should not have to remain this way.

There can be hope for the future. If we take your case, we may be able to help you with your claim so that you receive the benefits you earned. And in the process, hopefully I can help reduce your stress, restore your sense of self-worth, and reclaim your sense of identity.

I have adjudicated a vast array of claims involving various disorders: musculoskeletal, visual, hearing, respiratory, cardiovascular, digestive, genitourinary, hematological, skin, endocrine, neurological, mental, cancer, and immune system. I have read thousands of pages of reports and treatment notes from hundreds of doctors of nearly every specialty. I have a thorough grounding in the vocational consequences of medical disorders, a specialized knowledge developed in part through the routine questioning of medical and vocational experts at hearing.

In turn, I am able to take that experience and specialized knowledge, marshal the medical and vocational evidence, and put forth a compelling argument, all in a timely manner, in support of your claim for long term ERISA disability benefits.

If you want assistance, contact us.