BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

I was at NYU Hospital in May 2009. While sitting there I picked up a magazine that talked about the importance of disability insurance. CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE WHAT A COMPLETE CROCK!! The article was obviously a marketing tool bought & paid for by the insurance industry. Do yourselves a favor and google the name of your disability insurer + "complaints." Disability insurers do EVERYTHING they can to deny you. They play the numbers hoping you won't appeal, that you will be too sick to appeal or that you will just go away thinking there's nothing you can do. Insurance is a money-making operation and ONE OF THE LARGEST LOBBYING GROUPS IN WASHINGTON. I have spent enough time on the Hill talking to various representatives about ERISA Reform and the extremely predatory nature of insurance companies. Because I have experienced it for myself. "Lack of medical evidence" is used very often to deny claims because they are reviewed by clerks, NOT MEDIC...

by Mary Williams Walsh For the first couple of days after his flight ditched into the Hudson River, Paul Jorgenson was just glad to be alive. But then he started to need his laptop, his wallet, his car keys -- all the essentials he had stowed under his seat and left behind in the sinking plane. A pleasant woman at US Airways told him not to worry; he would be made whole for his losses. But then the matter shifted to US Airways' insurer, the American International Group, operating under government stewardship since its bailout last fall. "Everything went downhill," said Mr. Jorgenson, a software executive in Charlotte, N.C., whose laptop and keys have not been recovered. When a homeowner has a burglary or a driver has a crash, all it normally takes is a call to the insurance company and a description of the loss to activate the policy. But aviation liability insurance is different. It is activated by a finding of negligence on the part of an airline. If there is no neglig...

PURGATORY FOR THE DISABLED I blogged about this issue HERE. Seems the MSM is finally answering the clue phone. Write your lawmakers to speed up the Social Security Disability process and correct fatal flaws in the approval system. Just because you aren't disabled, doesn't mean you might not be tomorrow. (I am a prime example of how fast your life can change.) Please. Disability Cases Last Longer as Backlog Rises By ERIK ECKHOLM Steadily lengthening delays in the resolution of Social Security disability claims have left hundreds of thousands of people in a kind of purgatory, now waiting as long as three years for a decision. Two-thirds of those who appeal an initial rejection eventually win their cases. But in the meantime, more and more people have lost their homes, declared bankruptcy or even died while awaiting an appeals hearing , say lawyers representing claimants and officials of the Social Security Administration, which administers disability benefits for those judged...