Kantor & Kantor, LLP represented an attorney who, after years of successful practice, became totally disabled due to Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and a sleep disorder. Before coming to us for help, she had filed her own disability claim, and after it was denied, she filed an appeal. Despite our client’s repeated requests to her insurer for an independent medical examination, and despite medical opinions from various treating doctors supporting our client’s disability, her claims were denied. The insurer justified its continued denials based upon a review by one of its own in-house nurses and the opinions of another doctor who never examined her.
We filed a lawsuit and argued that the insurance company failed to adequately investigate our client’s claims, ignored pertinent evidence establishing her disability, and refused to entertain reasonable requests from our client. We settled the case to the satisfaction of our client.
