2021-06-04: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:09 Waiver by Insurance Companies Resulting from Acceptance of Premium Payments and/or the Providing of Benefits by Matt Pulle
2021-04-16: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:10 Whether a Life Insurance Case is Decided Under Common Law or Federal ERISA Law Can Make a Big Difference by Matt Pulle
2021-03-15: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:11 Helpful ERISA Disability and Healthcare Coverage Cases for Plaintiff’s Lawyers by Matt Pulle
2021-01-18: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:11 Why Determining the Proper Beneficiary of a Life Insurance Policy Is Not Always Simple by Matt Pulle
2020-12-29: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:12 The Importance of Denial Letters in Long-Term Disability Litigation by Matt Pulle
2020-11-11: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:12 You May Qualify for Total Disability Benefits, Even If You’re Able to Hold a Full-Time Job by Matt Pulle
2020-07-24: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:13 Remand vs. Award: How Courts Determine Whether To Award Disability Benefits or to Order the Plan Administrator to Review the Claim All Over Again by Matt Pulle
2020-04-15: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:14 Sixth Circuit Rules That Claimants Do Not Have To Appeal a Denial of ERISA Benefits If The Plan Does Not Discuss Internal Appeal Procedures by Matt Pulle
2020-03-19: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:14 How Insurers Rely on Exclusions to Deny Coverage Under Accidental Death and Dismemberment Policies by Matt Pulle
2020-01-21: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:15 Sixth Circuit Overturns Denial of ERISA Disability Benefits After Plan Administrator Failed to Consider the Demands of Claimant’s Job by Matt Pulle
2019-11-01: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:16 ERISA and The Fiduciary Duties of a Plan Administrator With Respect to Life Insurance by Matt Pulle
2019-08-05: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:16 Why Insurers Cannot Ignore Subjective Evidence Which Supports A Long-Term Disability Claim by Matt Pulle
2019-04-01: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:17 When Denying a Claim for Long-Term Disability Benefits, Plan Administrators Must Evaluate the Demands of the Claimant’s Job by Matt Pulle
2019-02-13: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:18 You Don’t Always Have to Appeal Your Denial of Long-Term Disability Benefits Before Filing Suit by Matt Pulle
2018-12-19: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:18 The Tennessee Slayer Statute: How It Applies to Life Insurance Litigation by Matt Pulle
2018-11-04: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:19 Just Because Your Employee Disability Policy Says It’s Governed By ERISA Doesn’t Mean It Is by Matt Pulle
2018-09-26: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:20 Why You Can Still Apply for Disability Benefits After You’ve Been Fired by Matt Pulle
2018-08-07: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:21 Incontestability Provisions in Life and Disability Policies by Matt Pulle
2018-06-15: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:22 The Admissibility of Evidence of the Amount of Premiums Paid for a Disability Policy by Matt Pulle
2018-05-24: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:22 If You Leave Your Employer but Maintain Your Disability Policy, You Probably Still Can’t Escape the Tough Rules of ERISA by Matt Pulle
2018-04-23: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:23 Challenging a Life Insurance Beneficiary Designation Based on Undue Influence by Matt Pulle
2018-03-14: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:24 Deposition of Unum and Paul Revere Representative Provides Valuable Insight on Unum’s Approach to Determining “Material and Substantial” and “Important” Duties by Matt Pulle
2018-02-02: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:24 Suicide Exclusions in Life Insurance Policies: What Happens When the Cause of Death is Uncertain by Matt Pulle
2018-01-02: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:25 When Providing Information to Your Disability Insurer Be Careful: Anything You Say Can And Will be Used Against You by Matt Pulle
2017-12-22: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:26 The Futility Exception to the ERISA Requirement that Claimants Must Exhaust Their Administrative Remedies in Order to be Able to File a Lawsuit by Matt Pulle
2017-11-30: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:26 Shaw v. AT&T Umbrella Benefit Plan No. 1; One of the Most Helpful Sixth Circuit Cases for Disability Claimants and their Attorneys by Matt Pulle
2017-10-17: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:27 Surveillance and Social Media Investigations by Long-Term Disability Insurance Companies by Matt Pulle
2017-10-05: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:27 Understanding the Insurable Interest Requirement for Life Insurance Policies, Part 2 by Matt Pulle
2017-09-22: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:28 Understanding the Insurable Interest Requirement for Life Insurance Policies, Part 1 by Matt Pulle
2017-09-05: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:29 How An Award of Social Security Disability Benefits Can Impact Your ERISA Long-Term Disability Case by Matt Pulle
2017-08-09: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:30 Recent Court of Appeals Decision Shows How Difficult It Is in Tennessee to Challenge a Beneficiary’s Rights by Matt Pulle
2017-08-01: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:30 What an ERISA Disability Plaintiff Has to Prove to Win Attorney’s Fees in an ERISA Disability Case by Matt Pulle
2017-04-11: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:31 The Substantial Compliance Test: What Happens When the Insured Meant to Change His or Her Beneficiary, But Did Not Follow the Life Insurance Policy’s Procedures by Matt Pulle
2017-02-26: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:31 Even Though Insurers Receive the Benefit of the Doubt in ERISA Litigation, They Don’t Get a Free Pass by Matt Pulle
2017-01-24: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:32 Can Life Insurance Companies Deny Benefits If the Insured Died of a Drug Overdose? by Matt Pulle
2017-01-09: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:33 Dealing With a Disability Insurance Denial Based on a Policy Exclusion by Matt Pulle
2016-12-23: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:33 Qualifying for Long-Term Disability Benefits: The Two Standards Claimants Usually Have to Meet by Matt Pulle
2016-12-12: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:34 Misrepresentation and Life Insurance: When Can Incorrect Information on an Application Result in a Denied Claim? by Matt Pulle
2016-11-30: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:35 Examining the Rights You Have Under ERISA When Appealing a Denial of Disability Benefits by Matt Pulle
2016-11-15: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:36 What Scope of Discovery is Available to ERISA Plaintiffs in the Sixth Circuit? by Matt Pulle
2016-11-03: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:36 Life Insurance and Divorce, Part 2: Why Ex-Spouses Should Formalize Any Post-Divorce Agreement to Modify Their Rights to the Proceeds of the Other Party’s Life Insurance Policy by Matt Pulle
2016-10-20: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:37 Life Insurance and Divorce: The Rights of Legally Mandated Beneficiaries, Part 1 by Matt Pulle
2016-09-19: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:38 Recent Sixth Circuit Case Interprets Phrase “Total Disability” by Matt Pulle
2016-08-23: Updated: 2021-09-07 20:34:39 Whether You Have an ERISA Case or Non-ERISA Case May Be Critical To Your Disability Claim by Matt Pulle
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