The Info Library is a resource for people who have questions about disability insurance benefits, insurance companies, medical conditions, occupational demands, claims, appeals, and litigation.
Think of it as a practical guide to disability claims. Our goal is to explain common issues in clear, useful terms so you can better understand the process, the risks, and the decisions that may affect your benefits.
New articles are added regularly.
Diagnoses Diagnosis - Arachnoiditis Diagnosis - Chronic Pain Diagnosis - Spinal Condition
Arachnoiditis is caused by inflammation or damage to the arachnoid membrane surrounding your spinal cord. When the arachnoid lining is irritated, your immune system response can lead to its inflammation. Nerves passing from the spinal cord through the arachnoid lining are also affected, often causing abnormal nervous responses all over the body.
If you have arachnoiditis, you’re likely aware of how this debilitating disease can affect your ability to carry out daily activities. This can include your ability to continue working.
Osteoporosis can increase the risk of fractures, chronic pain, reduced mobility, and physical limitations that interfere with work. Some people with osteoporosis continue working without significant restrictions. Others experience compression fractures, spine changes, hip fractures, balance problems, medication side effects, or fear of reinjury that makes full-time work difficult or unsafe.
Diagnosis - Neck Pain Diagnoses Diagnosis - Back Pain Diagnosis - Degenerative Disc Disease
Back problems are one of the most frequent reasons that people seek to file a disability claim. For those with degenerative disc disease, you already know how debilitating the pain can be – oftentimes to the point of being unable to work.
If you find that you are unable to continue working due to degenerative disc disease, you may be considering filing for long term disability. However, a simple claim of back pain alone won’t be sufficient basis for a claim with your insurance company.
Below we’ll outline what is needed when filing for long term disability for degenerative disc disease.
Diagnoses Diagnosis - Fibromyalgia Diagnosis - Pain Syndrome Diagnosis - Chronic Pain
Chronic pain and pain syndromes can make it impossible for suffers to work. However, insurers regularly discount pain complaints because pain is a subjective experience. You may be in excruciating pain, yet no instrument or test can measure it. The best way for you to get a long term disability insurer to take your complaints of pain seriously is to retain an experienced disability lawyers in new York to handle your claim or appeal.
Riemer Hess LLC is a national disability insurance law firm based in New York City. Our practice centers on long term disability and individual disability insurance claims for claimants and plaintiffs, including ERISA group LTD policies and private IDI policies. We also handle select long term care and life insurance matters where our insurance claim experience can help protect clients’ rights to benefits.
For over 30 years, we’ve represented professionals and executives nationwide in disability insurance claims, appeals, litigation, and benefit protection. We’ve litigated more ERISA disability cases in the Southern District of New York than any other plaintiff’s LTD firm, and our attorneys authored ERISA Disability Claims and Litigation, a legal textbook published by James Publishing.
We are Preferred Attorneys to the Brain Injury Association of America and have handled over 100 traumatic brain injury long term disability matters. We regularly represent clients with TBI, neurological disorders, complex spinal conditions, chronic pain, and other serious medical conditions affecting cognition, mobility, stamina, pain levels, and the ability to sustain work.
We also collaborate with disability and health advocacy organizations, including the U.S. Pain Foundation, to provide educational resources on chronic pain and disability insurance claims.
Clients trust us for our empathy, responsiveness, legal skill, and focused experience in LTD and IDI insurance claims.
Riemer Hess LLC
110 East 42nd Street
Suite 1418
New York, New York 10017
Prior results do not guarantee future outcomes. Nothing on this website constitutes legal advice.
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