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Kantor & Kantor Restores Long Term Disability Benefits for Fibromyalgia Client
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Mental Health Awareness Month Blog Series
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When Your Safety Net Fails
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May is Mental Health Awareness Month
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Doctor Support for Health Claims: You Need It and How to Get It
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Why California Needs Behavioral Health Workers
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Insurance Company Doctors Don’t Review Medical Records Before Denying Health Insurance Claims? Are You Kidding Me?
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When Insurance Companies Don’t Help, They Do Harm
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The Disabling Effects of Pain Medication
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Never Assume a Life Insurance Company is in the Right if it Denies Your Claim
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Caution when dealing with your insurance company: If you can’t prove it, it never happened!
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ERISA Appeal Deadline – Talk to an Attorney Early in the Process
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Website Helps Families Confront Denials for Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Services
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Is Oral Argument Dying?
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What Do You Do If You Cannot Work Because of Mental Illness?
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What’s a “Church Plan” when evaluating your right to benefits under employer benefit plan?
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Are Personal Statements Effective When Making a Long Term Disability Claim?
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What You Need To Know If Insurance Denies Coverage For Your Prescription Medication
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Why Appeal A Health Claims Denial… and How to Do It Right
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Chronic Pain is disabling
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Whose “Clinical Judgment” Applies to Insurance Denials?
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Make sure you share all your symptoms with your doctors!
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Kantor & Kantor Prevails on an Eating Disorder Case in the State of New Jersey
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Tips for Talking to a Lawyer
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The latest on “Discretionary Clauses” in California (Insurance Code section 10110.6)
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“There used to be considerable skepticism that Fibromyalgia was a real disease. No more.”
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Just Because An Insurance Company Denies Your Life, Disability or Health Insurance Claim, DOES NOT MEAN YOU SHOULD GIVE UP!
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Social Security Administration Adopts New Criteria for Evaluating Mental Disorders
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April is Parkinson’s Disease Awareness Month
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In-Network versus Out-of-Network: What you need to know when selecting a medical provider
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WORKPLACE DISABILITY MORE COMMON THAN WORKERS BELIEVE
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The Transition from Short Term Disability (STD) to Long Term Disability (LTD) Benefits
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Trumpcare will cut mental health care and substance addiction treatment for 1.3 million people
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Top 7 Benefits of the Affordable Care Act…Some of Which May Soon Disappear.
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If you have insurance, you need to know about the “notice-prejudice” rule!
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Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all. – Bill Clinton
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Resist the Urge to Submit a Quick Long Term Disability (LTD) Appeal – ERISA or Insurance Bad Faith
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Make Sure Your Lawyer Knows the Law Controlling the “Standard of Review!”
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What’s Going to Happen to Obamacare?
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The pitfalls of doing your own appeal without talking to an attorney first.
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Your Insurance Claim Will Probably Be Denied!
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Using the Courts to Move Insurance Coverage Goals Part I
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Why Your ERISA Appeal Is So Important
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Life Insurance Companies Investigated for Not Paying Claims
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Kantor & Kantor LLP Files Class Action Lawsuit On Behalf of Chronic Hepatitis C Patients Against Blue Shield of California
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Throwback Thursday: Tricks Insurers Play with the Definition of”Disability”
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Conflict of Interest Can Arise When Insurers has Duty to Determine Whether Claimant Qualified for Benefits and The Responsibility to Pay Benefits
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Kantor & Kantor Wins 2015 Best Business Award
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Life Insurance Denial…Overturned
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Four Kantor & Kantor Attorneys make the California Super Lawyers List for 2014
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Proving Disabilities Based On Pain
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Miracle Hepatitis C Drug Cure Being Denied: Not Sick Enough
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Issues That Arise During an ERISA Appeal: Things To Do Before You Hire an Attorney
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NEVER ACCEPT THE DENIAL OF A LIFE INSURANCE CLAIM WITHOUT HAVING THE DENIAL REVIEWED BY AN ATTORNEY!
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Robertson v. BCBS Texas (D. Montana Apr. 15, 2015, No. CV 14–224–M–DWM): “Law and Justice Can Pass Like Ships in the Night”
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The Importance of Requesting and Closely Reviewing your Claim File:
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Unum Bad Faith Practices
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Appaling Conduct By Aetna Results in Court Issuing Order Against Aetna Without a Hearing
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Disability Caused by Subjective Symptoms
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Social Security Disability Benefits in Jeopardy
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May is Lupus Awareness Month
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Kantor & Kantor Awarded 2014 Best of Business Award
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ERISA: Guilty Until Proven Innocent?
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USC Trojans Receiver Marqise Lee Puts Spotlight on Sports Disability Insurance
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Los Angeles Port Workers Sue Pacific Maritime Association, Cigna and Zenith American Solutions for $100 million in Unpaid Health Claims
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“Objective” Evidence of Disability
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Make Your Long Term Care Insurance Work For You
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Domestic Partner files Complaint after Cigna Fails to Recognize Domestic Partnership
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The Importance of Neuropyschological Testing in Disability Claims Including Cognitive Impairment
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Court Orders Long Term Disability Insurance Benefits to be Reinstated for Lupus Sufferer
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California Insurance Code section 10110.6 – Applies to Employer Group Plan Documents
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Long-term Care Insurer Fined Over Failure to Pay Timely Claims
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Watch out for ambiguous, or even deceptive language in communications regarding employee benefits!
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What is “Binding Arbitration”?
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Lyme Disease Disables Client – Long Term Disability Insurance Denial Overturned!
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Dealing with Insurance Companies: Managing a Disability Claim on Your Own
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Senator Patrick Kennedy and Public Respond to Anthem’s Behavior in CBS’ 60 minutes segment, ‘Denied’
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Kantor & Kantor Helps Cancer Patient Get Life Saving Treatment
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A Grateful Thanksgiving for another Kantor & Kantor Client!
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California Proposition 45 Defeated: Why the voters should be kicking themselves
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PART III: How Can Non-participating Providers Rendering Emergency Services Enforce their Rights in Payor-Provider Reimbursement Disputes?
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PART II: What level of reimbursement are non-participating (out-of-network) providers entitled to when providing non-emergency services to plan policyholders?
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PART I: What level of reimbursement are non-participating (out-of-network) providers entitled to when providing non-emergency services to plan policyholders?
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Senate Bill 1046 – Penaties for insurers who do not provide adeqate health care benefits
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Long Term Disability: The Surprising Complexity of an Insurer’s Definition of Disability
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California Court of Appeal decides health insurers must provide all medically necessary mental health treatment for people with Severe Mental Illnesses
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Kantor & Kantor Associate Named 2014 “Rising Star” by Southern California Super Lawyers
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Difficult Long Term Disability Claims: Battling Bipolar Disorder
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Know the Signs! Is your long term disability insurer trying to terminate your benefits?
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Justice Delayed…and delayed…and delayed….but ultimately not denied!
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Federal District Court Overturns Unum’s Decision To Terminate Long Term Disability Benefits
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Is Chronic Lyme Disease More Debilitating Than Other Chronic Illnesses? New CDC Survey says Yes.
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Asking the Right Questions About Your Disability Coverage
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Claim Denied! … How To Deal With Surprising Insurance Denials
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Your Insurance Company Wants You to Give Up On Your Claim
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Communicating With Your Attending Physician
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Ambassador for the National Arthritis Foundation, Three Time Author, and Successful TV Personality Christine Schwab Explains Her Personal Journey with Rheumatoid Arthritis
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Does My Long Term Disability Insurer Care About Me?
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What Does “Incontestability” Mean?
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Four Kantor & Kantor Attorneys Named California Super Lawyers for 2014
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Senior Planning Guest Blogger Explains Critical Things You Need To Know About Long-Term Care Insurance
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Ask the Lawyer: Long Term Disability Insurance Claim Questions
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Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and Long Term Disability
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What’s Wrong With the American Health-Care System?
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Things You Should Know About One of the Most Common Neurological Diseases – Parkinson’s
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The Right to an ERISA Long Term Disability Appeal
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Similar Symptoms, Different Diseases: Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO) and Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
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Kantor & Kantor Obtains the First California Victory Defeating Discretion in Insurance Policies Under Insurance Code, Section 10110.6
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Think You Can’t Afford To Work With A Disability Attorney? Think Again.
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60 Minutes and Its Unfair Attack on the Disabled
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California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones Speaks at a Southern California Reelection Fundraiser
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The Truth About Chemo Brain and Lasting Impairments
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Another Piece Found To The Fibromyalgia Puzzle
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ACCIDENTAL DEATH AND DISMEMBERMENT INSURANCE – BUYER BEWARE
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Long-Term Care Insurance is Not Just For The Elderly
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Long Term Disability Claims Overrun the Benefits Litigation World
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Are You Eligible For Low-Cost Health Insurance in the New Marketplace?
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LIFE INSURANCE CLAIM DENIED – ACCIDENTAL DEATH AND DISMEMBERMENT INSURANCE – BUYER BEWARE
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Disabled Americans Are Not “Gaming the Social Security System”
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The Truth About Long Term Disability Insurance Denials
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The important relationship between Social Security Disability Benefits and Group Long Term Disability Coverage
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California Bill Increases Privacy Protection for Patients
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Women in Pain: Members of the Pain Advocacy Community
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5 Reasons to Hire a Disability Insurance Attorney
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Long-Term Care Fact and Fiction: Misconceptions You Should Know About
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Kantor & Kantor, LLP – Attorneys Lisa Kantor and Corinne Chandler Named Top Women Attorneys in Southern California
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Have You Thought About Aging In Place? Trends in Long-Term Care
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New Research Suggests Biological Basis for Fibromyalgia
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New Fibromyalgia Blood Test Could Provide Strong Objective Evidence for Diagnosis
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Disability Statistics for 2012: Increased Coverage and Fewer Claims
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Affordable Care Act – What you Need to Know
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Some Expect Insurers to Compete Aggressively For New Customers
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What Happens During the Investigation Of My Disability Claim? Yes, they can interview your neighbor, follow your Facebook postings, and a lot more…
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Insurance Companies Questioning the Value of Discretionary Clauses — A public relations move or a genuine commitment to accurate claims handling?
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Check Out CreakyJoints: One of the Most Popular Rheumatoid Arthritis Communities in the World
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Survey Finds an Overwhelming Amount of Rheumatoid Arthritis Sufferers Stop Working Due to Illness
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Recent Long Term Care Insurance Denials
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Newly Identified Antibodies Could Improve Diagnosis and Treatment of Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis
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The Pitfalls of Handling Your Own ERISA Appeal
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The Impact of Sleep Disturbances on Rheumatoid Arthritis Pain
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Cigna Cited and Fined for Improperly Handling Long Term Disability Claims
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Our First Guest Blog: Daniel Malito writes about struggles with getting his pain medication paid for
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Transparency in Insurer Claim Approval and Denial Rates – Claim Denials Seem to Lead to Greater Profit
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Congratulations to Kantor & Kantor’s Associate Brent Dorian Brehm for being named 2013 “Lawyers on the Fast Track” by the Recorder
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Your Insurance Company Pays Less Than You Think
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Kantor & Kantor proves that Unum unlawfully denied long term disability benefits to policyholder suffering from fibromyalgia
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Obtaining insurance coverage for human growth hormone treatment for Idiopathic Short Stature (ISS)
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Disability is Real: Correcting distorted perceptions around diagnosis, symptoms, and life with a disability
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Information Processing Impairments in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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Kantor & Kantor Supports Parkinson’s Disease Awareness Month
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Kantor & Kantor Associate Named one of “Five Associates to Watch” by the Daily Journal
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Kantor & Kantor Recognizes the Challenges of Multiple Sclerosis: MS Awareness Month 2013
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Delays by the Insurance Company During an ERISA Appeal
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Alzheimer’s Cases Projected to Triple in Next Forty Years, With Care Costs Exceeding $1 Trillion
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Tips for Preparing for a Long Term Disability Insurance Benefits Appeal
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Mayo Clinic Finds Top Reasons for Doctor Visits: Chronic Conditions Affecting Both Genders and All Age Groups
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Four Kantor & Kantor, LLP Partners Named Super Lawyers for 2013
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Kantor & Kantor Supports Rare Disease Day 2013
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First Annual Rheumatoid Arthritis Awareness Day
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Attorney Alan E. Kassan Named Southern California Super Lawyer for 2013
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Attorneys Glenn Kantor and Alan Kassan Reveal Tips on How To Get Your LTC Insurance Claim Paid: San Fernando Valley MAPS Meeting
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Kantor & Kantor Eating Disorder Blog Named One of the Top 25 Eating Disorder Blogs Online of 2012
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An Insurance Denial is Not the Final Word, or…Why You Should Always Appeal an Insurance Benefit Denial
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Fibromyalgia Not Just A Woman’s Illness: New Study Finds that Rates May Be Higher Than Previously Thought For Men
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Nearly 10 million adult children are now caring for an aging parent….
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Kantor & Kantor Supports Crohn’s and Colitis Awareness Week
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Has Your Chronic Pain Changed You Cognitively and Emotionally? New Research May Have Discovered Why
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Chemo Brain is Real – How Chemotherapy for Cancer Affects the Brain
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Commencing an Arbitration Against Anthem Blue Cross
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PULLING THE PLUG ON YOUR COURT ORDERED MEDIATION: BALANCING YOUR OBLIGATION TO TAKE PART IN MEDIATION VERSUS PREVENTING YOUR MEDIATOR FROM HARMING YOUR CASE.
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Lisa Kantor and Corinne Chandler Named Super Lawyers Top Women Attorneys in Southern California for 2012
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Kantor & Kantor Supports Long-Term Care Awareness Month
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Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones Puts Insurers on Notice to Follow Consumer-Protection Law
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Kantor & Kantor Supports International RSD/CRPS Awareness Month
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Glenn Kantor Interviewed on Parkinson’s Recovery Radio Show
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Support and education for those who suffer from chronic pain conditions
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A Long- Term Care Insurance Primer
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Insurers Continue to Try to Avoid Their Obligations Under Accidental Death Policies
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Long-Term Care Insurance Reform Bill Will Place Limits on Rate Increases
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AB369 Will Provide Relief for People with Lupus and Other Chronic, Painful Illnesses
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THINK BEFORE YOU POST — THE DANGER OF SOCIAL MEDIA TO YOUR POTENTIAL LITIGATION
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Financial Planners Have More to Learn About Serving People With Chronic Illness
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Why Was My Long Term Care Insurance Claim Denied? Five Common Reasons For Denials, And Tips For Avoiding Them
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Ridiculous to Claim Disability Insurance Is Substitute for Gainful Employment
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As Long Term Care Insurance Claims for Alzheimer’s Increase, So Will Denials of Benefits
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Daily Journal names Glenn Kantor to list of Top 75 Labor and Employment Attorneys
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Commissioner Dave Jones Appoints Advisor to Oversee Public Participation in Rate Hikes
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Long Term Disability (LTD) Benefits and Equitable Liens for Social Security, etc.
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“Objective Medical Evidence” and a “Sedentary Occupation”
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California Physicians Sue Aetna to Protect Policyholders’ Treatment Choices
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Affordable Health Care For All – The Supreme Court Speaks
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What Does”Medical Necessity” Mean to an Insurance Company – Here are Some Guidelines and Criteria
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Making Insurance Companies Such as Hartford Aware That Parkinson’s Disease Is Disabling
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Why Was The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), aka”Obamacare” Challenged?
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Social Security Death Master File – What Do MetLife, Prudential, and other insurance companies do with it?
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Raising Awareness About the Importance of Disability Insurance
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Long-Term Care Insurer Denies Benefits and Policyholder Awarded $34 Million
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Frustrated by the Long Term Care Insurance Claim Process?
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National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day 2012: Exposing the Painful Stigma of Fibromyalgia
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Top 10 Things To Consider and Look For in Your ERISA Health Plan
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Amyvid – Drug to Diagnose Alzheimer’s Highlights Dilemma That Disease Still Has No Cure
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Aetna Refuses to Pay Long Term Disability Benefits to Client with Multiple Sclerosis.
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Long Term Care (LTC) Policyholders Are Devising Custom Care Arrangements, But Will LTC Insurers Join the Trend
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Finding Ways to Pay for Increasing Long-Term Care Premiums
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LINA (Cigna) Life Insurance Denial: The Discretionary Clause Strikes Again
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CBS News Comments on Policyholder’s Fight with Bankers Life for Long Term Care (LTC) Benefits
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Glenn Kantor and Corinne Chandler to Present National Business Institute Teleconference on Long Term Care Legal Issues
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Insurers Incorrectly Rely Upon ‘Magic Johnson Effect’ in Case Regarding AIDS Disability Benefits
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Life Insurance Company of North America Refuses to Pay Life Insurance Claim
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Attorneys Alan Kassan and Corinne Chandler are presenters at the 21st Annual Western Region Chapter of the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers held at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas November 3-5
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Governor Jerry Brown has signed into law S.B. 621 – The”Discretionary Authority” Bill
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Lisa Kantor to Participate in Live Q&A About Insurance and Eating Disorders
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New Poll Reports Californians Wary of Insurer Duplicity Surrounding Long Term Care (LTC) Policy Purchases
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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT ISSUES SIGNIFICANT RULING ON CALIFORNIA’S MENTAL HEALTH PARITY ACT
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New Regulations Regarding Homeowners’ Insurance from the California Department of Insurance
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Can advertisements trigger eating disorders? Maybe and General Mills Acts Responsibly About the Issue
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ERISA Disability Claims – Submit all Evidence During Appeal
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9th Circuit Finds Aetna Abused Discretion in Denying Benefits to Policyholder With MS — Aetna Failed to Engage in ‘Meaningful Dialogue’ to Obtain Objective Evidence
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Ninth Circuit Says Insurance Companies are Proper Defendants in ERISA Welfare Plan Lawsuits
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Prevention of Eating Disorders: Train Physicians to Detect Early Signs
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UNUM Backs Down and Agrees to Pay Long Term Disability Benefits
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Kantor & Kantor Defeats Reliance Standard’s Motion for Protective Order: Depositions of Insurance Company Representatives will go Forward
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Kantor & Kantor Obtains Disability Benefits for a Court Reporter Diagnosed With Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
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Inappropriate Reliance on Video Surveillance by CIGNA
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The Insurance Company Must Consider the Effects of Your Medication in a Disability Claim
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Lisa Kantor Argues to 9th Circuit That Blue Shield Violates Mental Health Parity Act
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Health Insurance Rate Hikes – AB52, legislation proposed by Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones and Assemblyman Mike Feuer
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“Chemo Brain” Exists, and it Lingers
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INSURANCE INDECENCY: UNITED HEALTHCARE CEO PAY CUT TO $49 MILLION
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CIGNA Can’t Deny LTD Benefits Once Confronted with Video Evidence
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Is Insurance Becoming Less”Sure?”
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Long Term Disability (LTD) Claim Success – UNUM Reverses a Benefit Denial
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Lisa Kantor Speaks at a Congressional Briefing in Washington D.C.
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Anthem Blue Cross Cuts Off Benefits in the Midst of Eating Disorder Treatment Program – Court Orders Benefits Paid
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Kantor and Chandler to Speak at the Annual Conference for The California Association for Health Services at Home (CAHSAH)
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Making Sure Your Health Insurer Doesn’t Have the Last Word in a Claim Denial
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Health Care Rate Hikes Will Go into Effect If Californians Do Not Act Now!
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Partner Lisa Kantor to Address Congressional Committee About Effective Eating Disorder Treatment
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United Behavioral Health (UBH) makes life miserable for patient with Anorexia
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As Professionals Begin to Better Understand & Explain the Recovery Process For Eating Disorders, Health Insurers Refuse to Listen
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Health Reform”Essential Services” – Rehabilitative or Habilitative?
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CIGNA Denies Disability Benefits for Insured with MS – We File Suit – Court Orders Benefits Paid
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Snooping Insurance Companies – The Realities of Cyberspace and Social Media
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Lisa Kantor to Speak on Documenting Treatment for Insurance Purposes at Annual Conference for International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (IAEDP)
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Getting Evidence to Support Your Disability Claim
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Insurance Commission Dave Jones Faces His First Battle With Insurers and Announces his Priorities for His Tenure.
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Financial Life after Death
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Dropping Mental Health Coverage Costs More Than It Saves
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Jackie Bristow Run/Walk Raises Awareness About Eating Disorders
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Possible Genetic Underpinning for Anorexia Discovered
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California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones Asks Aetna, Anthem, Pacificare to Delay Rate Increases
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Anorexia and Bulimia Diagnoses Increase Among Pre-Teens, Males and Minorities
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California Department of Insurance Fires Back at Blue Shield Over Proposed Rate Increase
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Blue Shield Fires First Shot in Looming Power Struggle Over Rate Increases
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California’s New Consumer-Friendly Administration Should Revive Attempt to Ban Discretionary Clauses in ERISA Disability & Health Plans
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Will Healthcare Reform Benefits Be Realized?
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California Department of Insurance Freezes PacifiCare Dividend Payment
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Possible Genetic Underpinning for Anorexia Discovered
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Anorexia and Bulimia Diagnoses Increase Among Pre-Teens, Males and Minorities
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California Workers Paying More for Healthcare, Receiving Less
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If My Short Term Disability Claim is Denied, Can I or Should I File an LTD Claim As Well?
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The Importance of Knowing What Kind of Disability Coverage You Have
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Your employer provided health benefits may be about to shrink
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QUESTION: Will your insurance pay if you suffer a catastrophic injury or need emergency medical care?
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MetLife to Stop Selling Long Term Care Coverage
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The Problem with Long Term Care Insurance…
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Los Angeles Prosecutors Accuse Wellpoint of Fraud Regarding Rescission Practices
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KAISER REFUSES LIFE SAVING BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT FOR CANCER PATIENT
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Insurers Balk at Directives Under ‘Obamacare’
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Insurers Still Tend to Ignore Mental Health Parity in Eating Disorder (Anorexia & Bulimia) Claims
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Governor Schwarzenegger Vetos AB 1868 – Insurance Companies Benefit, the Public Suffers
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California Mental Health Parity and Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa
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What Does The New Federal Health Care Law Mean For You?
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Tough New Regulations Crack Down on Illegal Rescission of Health Insurance Policies
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The “Fibro Deniers”— How Insurance Companies Use Biased IME Doctors and Medical Reviewers to Deny Fibromyalgia Disability Claims
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Courts Will Acknowledge the Disabling Side Effects of Medications…But Patients Must Report the Nature of the Those Side Effects So the Problems Can be Documented
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The ERISA Paradox: Unum Pays Policyholder Benefits Under Individual LTD Policy, Denies Disability Under His ERISA LTD Policy
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New Evidence that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) Might be Linked to a Virus
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“Objective Evidence” of Pain … or … Is your disabling pain or fatigue not “real” enough for your insurance company?
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Medication Side Effects are Also Disabling
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Will my Insurance Company Pay me a Lump Sum Settlement for my Disability Claim?
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Getting your Health Insurance Claim Paid – Healthcare Overhual May, or May Not Help
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Most State Regulatory Agencies Lack Authority to Block Health Insurance Rate Increases
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Arbitration vs. Filing a Lawsuit Over a Long Term Disability Claim- What are your options? Which is best?
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MetLife is on the Hook for Long Term Disability Benfits
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Anthem, Aetna Keep Policyholders’ Heads Spinning Over Insurance Rate Hikes
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Health Insurance Rate Hikes…Are they Fair? Aetna, Anthem, Blue Shield and Health Net Rate Proposals All Scrutinized
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Long-Term Care Industry Report Says Coverage Less Expensive Than You Think
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Conseco Senior Health, SHIP, Transport Life, American Travelers Life and Others, May Not be Paying What They Should For Home Health Care
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and XMRV…Are They Related?
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Reliance Standard Medical Reviewers May Face Conflict of Interest
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FIBROMYALGIA DIAGNOSIS REVISITED – The 19-Point Pain Index
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Dave Jones for California Insurance Commissioner 2010
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Unum Reaps Windfall as Entitled Workers’ Job Fears Decrease Disability Claims
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Calculation of “Medical Loss Ratios” – How Much of Your Insurance Premium Should go to Health Care Costs?
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Outdated Long-Term Care Coverage Concerns Rival Problems With Increased Premiums
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Nudge: A good Book by Cass Sunstein (Harvard Law School) and Richard Thaler (Univ. of Chicago Business School)
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Avoiding the Death Spiral: New Federal Health Care Law and Insurance Regulation
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In Ford v. Hartford Life & Acc. Ins. Co. the District Court Applied the Wrong Standard of Review
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Kantor & Kantor Lawyers Win Trial Victory for Client Fighting Employer’s Self-Funded Health Plan
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What will the Health Reform Bill Mean?
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UnitedHealth and WellPoint Increase Rates, and Profits
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Anthem is also being investigated by the California Department of Insurance for more than 700 violations in the past three years
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Policyholder Fighting Health Net for Coverage Gets Temporary Reprieve Because of Media Involvement
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Anthem Blue Cross Raises Premiums – and Ire – of Individual Policyholders
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CLASS Act, Payroll Deductions for Long-Term Care, Likely to Remain Part of Final Healthcare Overhaul
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Standard Insurance Company Must PayLong Term Disability Benefits to Plaintiff With Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease
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Facebook Pictures Lead to Disability Benefits Denial
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Improvements to Long Term Care (LTC) CLASS Act Would Encourage More Enrollment
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Federal Healthcare Legislation Could Erode California’s Consumer Protections
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Eating Disorders, California Health and Safety Code Section 1254.5, Mental Health Parity Acts
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XMRV VIRUS MAY BE CAUSE OF CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME
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Tort Reform is a myth…‘Frivolous Lawsuits’ Amount to Pennies on the Dollar Compared to Insurer Profits
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Tests to Objectively Measure Brain’s Pain Response Bolster Fybromyalgia Claims
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Rescissions and Jargon: What’s Not to Love About Health Insurance Plans
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LTC Guild Launches Campaign to Educate Public About Extended Care Options
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Long-Term Care CLASS Act Is Likely Victim of Controversy and Indifference
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Congress Must Stand up to the “Whims” of Health Insurers
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California Lawmakers and Governor at Odds — Again Insurance Policyholders Seeking Benefits Caught in Stalemate
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California Attorney General Jerry Brown to Scrutinize Pacificare, Cigna, Health Net Among Others, For Widespread Denial of Claims
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Together, Aetna, Pacificare, Anthem Blue Cross, Kaiser and Cigna Denied 31.2 Million Claims since 2002.
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UnitedHealth and Blue Shield Are Among Carriers to Benefit from Healthcare Overhaul
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Federal C.L.A.S.S. Act Focuses Needed Attention on the Nation’s Lack of Long-Term Care Planning
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Blue Cross Blue Shield, United Healthcare Say It’s Up to Policyholder to Discover Loopholes, Limitations in Policies by Reading ‘Small Print’
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Health Insurers Say No to Congress When Asked to End Rescission Practices
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Kantor & Kantor Wins Appeal to Department of Insurance in the Matter of Shepard v. United Healthcare
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Blue Shield Raises Premiums in California as Much as 54%
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Insurance Industry Will Never Come to Terms with Healthcare Reform
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Health Care Reform Should Include Long-Term Care
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Los Angeles Times business columnist David Lazarus is Skeptical About Health Insurance Industry Is Seeking the Country’s Best Interests
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May 12 Is Fibromyalgia Awareness Day
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Senate Bill Would End Gender Bias in Healthcare Premium Costs
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Horizon Blue Cross Settles New Jersey Eating Disorder Class Action
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UNITED HEALTHCARE REFUSES BENEFITS FOR SACRAMENTO AREA ANOREXIA PATIENT
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Chronicling the Failure of Penn Treaty; Long Term Care In Peril
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America’s Health Insurance Plans, Blue Cross/Blue Shield and other Industry Leaders Reconsider Equalizing Premiums to Fix Coverage Dilemmas
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Independent Medical Exams (IME’s) – “Listen, there’s a lot of hanky-panky that goes on”
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Watch Out for Short Term Health Insurance Policies and Pre-Existing Illness Conditions
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Is Your Long-Term Care Insurance Company Solvent?
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Percentage of People Paying for Their Own Long-Term Care Is Growing
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Insurer-Proposed Healthcare ‘Reforms’ Aren’t Worth Cheering About So Says L.A. Times
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Disability Insurers Have Most to Gain From Attempts to Deny Legitimacy of Fibromyalgia
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Welcome to the World of ERISA Disability Insurance Claims
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LTC Insurance as Retirement-Planning Option May be More Important Than Ever
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Changes to California Disability Insurance Regulations Shouldn’t Precede Commissioner’s Run for Governor
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Blue Shield Latest Insurer to Settle Rescission Lawsuit
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Penn Treaty Enters Receivership Under Pennsylvania Insurance Department
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Legal Blogging From the Trenches Pre-Existing Conditions: Just Wait the 365 Days!
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Pennsylvania Approval of Conseco Trust Is Bad Idea for Policyholders
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Conseco Ends Ties to Long-Term Care Business After Pennsylvania Insurance Department Authorizes Transfer to”Senior Health Care Oversight Trust”
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Aetna Insurance Must Pay Back Benefits for Eating Disorder Denials
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Federal Tax Deductions Could Make Long Term Care (LTC) Policies More Affordable
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Will Medicaid Run Out of Money?
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Conseco Asks Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner to Approve a Plan to Dump Long-Term Care Policies
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Both Obama and McCain Are Short on Long-Term Care Planning Policy
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Kantor and Kantor Blog Ranks in the Top 50 in a LexisNexis Survey
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MetLife Joins Other Insurers Requesting Rate Increase on Existing Long-Term Care Policies
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Health Net, Inc. Is Latest Insurer to Finalize Deal with California Over Rescission Practices
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Federal Oversight of Long-Term Care Insurance Practices Under Consideration
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Long Term Care Insurance – Do you need it?
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L.A. City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo Sues Blue Shield to End Rescission Practices
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Business as Usual for Allstate, Unum and Eight Other Insurance Carriers; The Ten Worst Insurance Companies in America
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FAQ: My Long Term Disability carrier offered to hire a company to assist me in obtaining Social Security Disability Benefits . . . Should I accept?
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ABC News & Good Morning America Take CIGNA to Task Over Long Term Disability Insurance Denial
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The U.S. Supreme Court Issues its Ruling in Metropolitan Life v. Glenn
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Woman with Cancer Finally Gets Disability Benefits After ‘Good Morning America’ Calls Cigna
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U.S. Supreme Court Considers Glenn v. MetLife: Should insurance companies’ decisions be given full deference in ERISA cases?
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CRITICAL STEPS TO GETTING (ERISA and non-ERISA) INSURANCE CLAIMS PAID . . .Long Term Disability, Long Term Care, Health, or Life Insurance
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Post-Claim Underwriting – Ticconi v. Blue Shield may shift odds in policyholders’ favor
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Long Term Care Insurance as a Financial Safety Net
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Health Care Reform: Governor Schwarzenegger in the Midst of Insurance Controversy
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Jacobs v. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. – Court Orders Kaiser to Pay for Eating Disorder (Bulimia)Treatment
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Social Security Disability vs. Long Term Disability Insurance: 755,000 reasons why the latter may be better
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