Nationwide Long Term Disability (LTD) Benefits Insurance Claim Denial & ERISA Appeals Lawyers

Alan C. Olson & Associates

2880 South Moorland Road
New Berlin, Wisconsin 53151
USA

(262) 649-4861 or(888) 843-1261

(262) 785-1324

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Alan C. Olson & Associates represents clients nationwide, assisting them in obtaining long-term disability benefits that were denied by the insurance companies. At Alan C. Olson & Associates, we embrace the challenge. We pride ourselves on being better, being different. We live up to our reputation.

This is how clients describe our work: Smart. Passionate. Relentless. Results-oriented.

That's what you get when you work with our team. We're people first and attorneys second. We talk to you about your case in terms that make sense - terms a judge can understand.

Our integration of you into our team and close professional relationship reveals critical insights about your needs, hopes, and desires. Our disability benefit lawyers empower you to stand up for your rights and recover what is rightfully yours.

Areas of Law

Additional Areas of Law: Disability Insurance Denial; ERISA Appeal.

Areas of Law Description

- ERISA

ERISA provides that a long term disability plan administrator shall notify a claimant of the plan's benefit determination on review within a reasonable period of time, but not later than 45 days after receipt of the claimant's request for review by the plan. If the plan administrator determines than an extension of time for processing is required, written notice of the extension shall be furnished to the claimant prior to the termination of the initial 45-day period. In no event shall the total period of review exceed 90 days.

- Back Conditions

Back pain and disorders of the spine are a common type of disability handled by the firm. In many ways back claims are the most challenging in terms of recovering long term disability benefits. Nevertheless, these cases are winnable when presented properly.

- Pain Disorders

Many claimants who suffer with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), fibromyalgia, lyme, and migraines, have cognitive difficulties (and not simply depression). Our attorneys use a battery of tests that can be administered in neuropsychological testing to help to identify how or where a claimant is suffering cognitively, and effective utilization of such testing can help us demonstrate our client's impairment.

- Stress in the Executive Occupation

Although courts recognize that many high profile individuals, including former Vice-President Cheney, President Eisenhower and Associate Justice Stevens, returned to work after suffering a heart attack, the disability benefit experts of develop and successfully argue each case based on its own particular facts and circumstances. Disability claims are common in both the corporate and financial sectors for stress related conditions, including heart attacks.

- Physician Related Disability

A critical issue for the firm in physician disability cases is determining a physician's occupation. We often present evidence that the physician's regular occupation is a specialty or sub-specialty as opposed to a broader occupational category.

- Mental and Nervous Disorder

Most long term disability polices covered by the Employee Retirement Income Security of 1974 (ERISA) limit benefits to one or two years for disabilities caused or contributed to by mental illness. Some policies do not define mental illness at all. Those that define the term do so differently. It is therefore important for the disability benefit experts of our firm to analyze both the language of the limitation itself, and the definition of mental illness, if one is contained in the policy.

- Psychological and Neuropsychological

There are several conditions, beyond the easily identified depression and anxiety impairments, where insurers have become more aggressive in pursuing psychological and neuropsychological testing. These conditions include Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Lyme Disease, Migraines, and even orthopedic impairments.

Attorneys

	Ms. Jennifer J. Allen Attorney Employment, Litigation, Social Security Disability		Ms. Emily R. Anderson Attorney Employment, Litigation, Social Security Disability
	Mr. Nicholas M. McLeod Attorney Employment, Litigation, Social Security Disability		Mr. Alan C. Olson Attorney Employment, Social Security, Social Security Disability