In Your Corner TV – Season 1 Episode 1
In Your Corner TV – Season 1 Episode 1
FEATURED ON THIS EPISODE…
► 2:23 – RECENT SUCCESS STORY – An ill client was denied long term disability after the insurance company claimed that she wasn’t disabled, despite support from multiple neurologists.
► 5:31 – My wife suffers from depression and anxiety and has been seeing a psychologist for over a year. She applied for long-term disability and we just received a denial from the insurance company despite her doctors saying that she can’t work. She’s 46 years old and worked as an account executive at a large ad company. Is there anything we can do?
► Top 5 Reasons Insurers Give for Denying Claims (and how you should respond)
• 11:39 – You are not “totally disabled”
• 12:40 – Insufficient medical documents supporting your disability
• 14:57 – There is no formal diagnosis for your disability
• 17:12 – You can do another job
• 19:36 – You don’t qualify because of a pre-existing condition
► 23:28 – help@disabilityrights.ca – When people are denied long-term disability, they are often invited to appeal. Should they appeal? Is there an alternative?
► 25:49 – http://www.mydisabilityquestions.com – My sister is getting long-term disability for chronic pain, sciatica and fibromyalgia. She’s 52 and her insurer wants to pay her up to the 2-year mark and then close her file. Her adjuster is pressuring her to agree, but I think she should call you. What happens if she doesn’t agree to the adjuster’s demands?
► 27:35 – help@disabilityrights.ca – If someone is a unionized employee and they’ve been denied long-term disability, should they ask their union to fight the denial or call you instead?
In Your Corner: Disability and Injury Law with Disability Lawyer Sivan Tumarkin and co-host John Scholes. Discover your rights in Ontario and British Columbia on Season 1 Episode 1 of the only long term disability law show on TV in Canada.
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Sundays @ 8:30am ET on Global Ontario
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