It is excruciatingly painful to remember how much she suffered and how helpless we felt when we were fighting for her life at the same time we were fighting her insurance company. The pain of having a child die does not go away. It does become bearable over time and I have found a way […]
Founding Partner Lisa S. Kantor has been nominated for the 2015 “Women in Business” award by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal.The 14th Annual Women in Business Award identifies and spotlights the very best women in business in the San Fernando Valley region. It is a great honor for Kantor to be recognized by the […]
Lisa Kantor of Kantor & Kantor will soon be featured in “Just Eat,” a movie produced and directed by Laura Dyan Kezman which explores the deadly world of eating disorders. Just Eat examines the havoc that eating disorders wreak on the millions of lives of Americans and their families each year. It offers an in […]
Lisa Kantor was recently nominated for a WEGO Health Activist Hero Award. The WEGO Health Activist Awards program was created to recognize and honor those making a difference in the online health community.Lisa’s commitment to eating disorder treatment for those who are denied benefits is not simply confined to her work as an attorney. Lisa […]
Eating disorders are brain-based diseases and should be treated in the same way that we treat diseases of any other part of the body. Insurance companies should treat eating disorders and other mental health issues the same way that they treat other physical conditions. Those suffering from eating disorders and other mental illnesses should be […]
The American Psychiatric Association (“APA”) released their poster for Mental Health Parity and knowing your rights.The poster outlines 10 key elements of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act 2008 (“MHPEA”) and how to identify whether your insurance company has potentially violated this law. We implore anyone who has been denied coverage by their […]
It’s no surprise that as a society, we overlook males with eating disorders. This deadly disease has been extensively labeled and cast as a “female” disease, (and even still females are being overlooked and misdiagnosed) leaving the other half to suffer in even more shame and silence. Misinformation, and a lack of understanding within the […]
Readers, please be advised that this blog contains content that reflects the reality of Brian’s struggles with various addiction and suicidal intent.As we approach Eating Disorder Awareness week, I think back to 2005. Deep in the throes of a twenty seven-year struggle with bulimia and untreated alcoholism and drug addiction, I stuck a .45 automatic […]
Kantor & Kantor, LLP celebrates a fantastic victory announced today by New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman. After exposing Cigna Corporation for numerous wrongful mental health insurance denials, Attorney General Schneiderman’s office reached a settlement agreement. The settlement requires Cigna to reprocess and pay hundreds of claims for nutritional counseling for mental health conditions, […]
By Shannon Cutts(as published in Gurze Books’ “Eating Disorders Recovery Today”, Winter 2009)I can sum up my own recovery from anorexia and bulimia with four words—relationships replace eating disorders.When I became ill with anorexia at the age of eleven, I didn’t know how to tell my parents what felt so wrong inside of me, and […]
