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Ed Comitz Scheduled to Speak at Western Regional Dental Convention: “Disability Insurance: Will It Be There When You Need It?”
Ed Comitz will be a speaker at the 2012 Western Regional Dental Convention, which will be held at the Phoenix Convention Center on March 29-31, 2012. Mr. Comitz’s course is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on Friday, March … Continue reading
The 10 Biggest Legal Mistakes Dentists Make When Filing a Disability Claim (Mistake #8)
Next in the series of The 10 Biggest Legal Mistakes Dentists Make When Filing a Claim for Disability, adapted from a publication written by disability attorney Ed Comitz’s, published by SEAK, Inc., 2005, is Mistake #8: MISTAKE NO. 8: Ignoring the Possibility … Continue reading
The 10 Biggest Legal Mistakes Dentists Make When Filing a Disability Claim (Mistake #9)
Continuing with the countdown of The 10 Biggest Legal Mistakes Dentists Make When Filing a Claim for Disability: MISTAKE NO. 9: Blindly Accepting that Subjectively Diagnosed Conditions Are Not Covered Disability insurers often deny benefits by insisting that the insured’s subjective symptoms … Continue reading
The 10 Biggest Legal Mistakes Dentists Make When Filing a Disability Claim (Mistake #10)
In this series of posts, we will be counting down the The 10 Biggest Mistakes Dentists Make When Filing a Claim for Disability, adapted from an article written by disability insurance attorney Ed Comitz and published by SEAK, Inc., 2005. MISTAKE … Continue reading
How To File A Disability Insurance Claim
Disability insurance lawyer Edward O. Comitz, head of the healthcare and disability insurance practice group at Comitz | Beethe, has recently posted an interesting and informative article, How To File A Disability Insurance Claim. Mr. Comitz discusses the sophisticated techniques … Continue reading
How A Dentist Can Avoid The Common Obstacles To Filing A Disability Insurance Claim
You have worked hard your whole career to develop your dental practice, but now you fear that you can no longer treat patients because of a physical or mental condition. You’re not alone – statistics show that from the … Continue reading
Facebook Photos Lead to Disability Benefits Termination
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (“CBC”) reports that Nathalie Blanchard, an IBM worker who had been on long-term disability leave due to depression, had her benefit payments terminated after she posted photos on social networking site Facebook that showed her on vacation, having a … Continue reading
Healthcare Professionals Suffering from a Chronic Condition: Presenteeism
A recently-published article in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that presenteeism—showing up to work with a sickness, impairment or disability that restricts productivity—has reached pandemic proportions amongst medical professionals. The survey, which studied residents at numerous hospitals, found that 3 of 5 healthcare … Continue reading
Northwestern Mutual Provides a Glimpse Into the Ways in Which Disability Insurance Companies Interpret and Apply Own-Occupation Coverage
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance, a major provider of disability income insurance for medical professionals, has launched a new website, the “Disability Income Insurance Knowledge Center,” which it claims will assist their insureds in understanding the terms of their own occupation disability insurance … Continue reading
Arizona Disability Advocacy Coalition Awards Disability Community Leaders
The Arizona Disability Advocacy Coalition (AzDAC) recently announced the recipients of their 2010 Americans with Disability Disability Act Awards and awarded them at a gala held in their honor in Tempe, Arizona for the 20th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The attorneys … Continue reading