Category: Disability Tips

Legal Reader published Frank N. Darras’ article on the legal rights of people living with disabilities who were laid off. The article “Casualty of a Round of Serious Layoffs? Know These Long-Term Disability Tips” explains how disability insurance (including short-term and long-term policies) will play out for someone who’s been laid off in Silicon Valley, […]

Commonly known as myalgic encephalomyelitis, chronic fatigue syndrome is a disease that, according to the CDC, may affect as many as 2.5 million Americans. Unfortunately, most active cases reportedly remain undiagnosed. The disease causes a range of different symptoms, although not all of these are present in every case. In general, however, chronic fatigue causes […]

Aetna is one of the largest and best-known disability insurance providers in the United States. The company has been known to collect tens of billions of dollars in revenues from premiums alone. As you can guess, Aetna is not always so quick to pay valid long-term disability (LTD) claims to policyholders and will do what […]

According to the latest figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 17.9% of Americans with a disability were in some kind of employment in 2020. This is a slightly smaller proportion of the disabled community in the workforce than recorded in previous years, with the pandemic being the biggest factor in the reduction. If you’ve […]

1. Confirm that your lawyer exclusively litigates individual and/or group disability, insurance and ERISA claims. Disability law is highly specialized and differs significantly from personal injury or other areas of the law. A general practice attorney is often not equipped to competently handle cases involving individual or group disability benefits. Specialization is required and is […]

1. Does the firm specialize in disability insurance law? DarrasLaw is the largest disability and long-term care insurance litigation firm in the nation focusing EXCLUSIVELY on individual and group long-term disability cases for policyholders. We are the most honored and highly decorated firm in the country. Our founding partner, Frank N. Darras has seen, evaluated, […]