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On June 12, 2008, Scott M. Riemer will lecture at the 11th National Advanced Forum on Resolving Disability Insurance lawyer New York Claims & Litigation in Boston. The conference is sponsored by the American Conference Institute. The conference will include speakers who are leading plaintiff and defense lawyers as well as top medical experts. The topic of my discussion will be "Standard of Review in ERISA Litigation in Light of MetLife v. Glenn." MetLife v. Glenn, which will be decide by the Supreme Court this term, is expected to be the most important ERISA case in the last 20 years. Please take a look at ACI's website for more information, http://americanconference.com

On March 27, 2008, Scott M. Riemer filed an amicus brief on behalf of the NYC Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society Disability Lawyer New York in the case of MetLife v. Glenn, now pending in the U.S. Supreme Court and waiting for oral argument on April 23, 2008. The brief of the Chapter was proudly filed on a pro bono basis by Riemer Hess LLC and Jonathan Feigenbaum.

The Supreme Court agreed to hear MetLife's appeal in MetLife v. Glenn. This will perhaps be the most important Supreme Court decision in the area of long term New York Disability Lawyer claims in decades.

HR2622 is an important Bill before Congress that deserves and needs your support. Any attorney representing claimants in long term disability cases could tell you that the playing field is slanted in favor of insurance companies. This is because in most cases under existing law an insurer's denial of disability benefits will be overturned by a Court only if the Court finds that the insurer's denial was arbitrary and capricious. Instead of looking at the evidence fairly, the Court will give the insurer's denial deference. Therefore, in order to win it is not just a question of proving that you are disabled, you must establish that the insurer's denial was arbitrary. This is extremely difficult to establish.

On June 7, 2007, I lectured at the 10th National Advanced Forum on Resolving Disability Insurance Lawyer New York Claims & Litigation in Boston. The conference is sponsored by the American Conference Institute. The conference included speakers who are leading plaintiff and defense lawyers as well as top medical experts. The topic of my discussion was "Developments in ERISA Claims Handling and Litigation." Attending the conference are plaintiffs and defense lawyers as well as insurance company claims managers. Please take a look at ACI's website for more information, http://americanconference.com