Category: Group Long-Term Disability Claims

President Barack Obama unveiled initiatives in education and health for war veterans, highlighting how his administration has reduced the backlog of veterans’ long term disability insurance claims by 20%. “We’re turning the tide. We’re not going to let up until we eliminate the backlog once and for all,” Obama told a gathering of disabled veterans […]

The bargain is gone, according to customers of Kaiser, one of the nation’s largest group disability insurance providers as well as HMOs. Worse, the company is standing in the way of controlling healthcare costs by not negotiating rates or fully explaining why its premiums keep rising. Kaiser staves off the criticism by saying it remains […]

Bullying brings to mind the picture of girls picking on each other in the schoolyard. Or even a more current idea of bullying would be teenagers virtually picking on each other through Facebook. A new study places bullying in sort of the adult version of a schoolyard: the workplace. Researchers in Finland studied several thousand […]

Paying for disability insurance is likely close to the bottom of the list for young professionals these days. It is hard enough to find a job that pays enough to support oneself, a family and to pay back the student debt that so many young workers and families owe. Why would paying for disability insurance […]