Solve webinar: Navigating Public and Private Disability Insurance with ME/CFS

[Emily Taylor]

2nd Annual EmPOWER M.E. Roundtable: Navigating Public and Private Disability Insurance with ME/CFS

We're less than a week away from the 2nd Annual EmPOWER M.E. Roundtable: Navigating Public and Private Disability Insurance with ME/CFS. Since we could not be there in person, we will bring the panel to the comfort of your own home.


Join us ONLINE for the 2nd Annual EmPOWER M.E. Roundtable on Monday, April 20th at 1 pm ET.


The online education workshop will lead a conversation between legal and medical experts in the field as they share their advice on applying, appealing, and documenting your case for Public and Private Disability Insurance with ME/CFS.


If you are not registered yet, please register here.

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2868794468387936523


Otherwise, you are welcome to access the event without registration at any point before or during the panel (Webinar ID: 657-464-579). If you had registered for the in-person event, we have added you to the registration list and you should’ve received information about how to log in to the panel. If you are having any trouble at all please email nataliag@beekeepergroup.com.






Moderator

Sharon Stevenson, DVM, PhD

Board Certified Patient Advocate

Bellwether Care, Inc.


Panelists

Lucinda Bateman, MD
Founder & Medical Director
Bateman-Horne Center

Andrew M. Kantor
Associate Attorney
Kantor & Kantor, LLP

Moselle C. Leland
Law Offices of Judith S. Leland
APLC

Christopher Snell, PhD
Scientific Advisory Committee Chair
Workwell Foundation


Sponsors

 

[Tom Kindlon]

[I'd be interested in hearing feedback from people outside the US about whether this is useful for private insurance cases outside the US. A lot of US advice can be useful, but some can be very specific to the US system. Tom]



SolveCFS

2020 EmPOWER M.E. Roundtable: How to Navigate Disability Insurance with ME/CFS

Presented on April 20, 2020, this online education workshop will include a conversation between legal and medical experts in the field as they share their advice on applying, appealing, and documenting your case for disability insurance with ME/CFS. Board Certified Patient Advocate, Sharon Stevenson, DVM, PhD, moderates with roundtable speakers: Lucinda Bateman, MD (Bateman Horne Center), Christopher Snell, PhD (Workwell Foundation) and Moselle C. Leland (Law Offices of Judith S. Leland).

 

[Samuel]

i have never found webinars possible to attend. it is not within my health capacity.

signing up, being organized, not having emergencies, being awake, not being too sick, dealing with technical issues, and many more things make it completely impossible.

so webinars don't do it for me. if it were possible to ask questions by email, in a dialogue format so that it were possible to correct misunderstood questions, that could be useful in principle. things take time when sick. allow days or weeks to compose.

until something like that occurs, webinars are like watching some alien planet.

i'm geniuinely glad their target audience is being helped by them. i know i will never be helped by them.

and i know that i am alien to that planet too. except, i am probably never thought of. i know they exist, but they don't know i exist.

webinars fly by, healthy folk fly by, everybody gets married, they experience youth and beauty, growth, happy memories, maybe a few hours without stress from carer yelling at them for asking for food or medicine.

i lie here getting sicker, and older, and years and a century marker fly by, and i know that another webinar will fly by, and i know that nothing will be "solved" in my lifetime without a miracle.
and we have to create that miracle.

but the solution at present will be a webinar. on an alien planet.

 

[Sly Saint]

Kantor & Kantor and Workwell Foundation to Jointly Offer a CLE Session on Disability Insurance for those with COVID-19 and ME/CFS

Presented online on August 3, 2021 at 11:00 am – 12:00 pm (Pacific), Kantor & Kantor, LLP and Workwell Foundation will offer a Continuing Legal Education session: COVID-19 and Disability Insurance for Individuals Living with ME/CFS.

This session will inform and educate attorneys and other professionals about the latest scientific connections and legal trends and analysis of COVID-19 and the Long Term Disability insurance claim, appeal, and litigation process.

The goal of this session is to arm attorneys with as much information and insights as possible so that they can advise their clients effectively.

"As we learn more and more about the symptoms that are shared by people living with COVID-19 and ME/CFS, the more we are certain insurance companies will deny LTD claims," says Associate Andrew Kantor. "This is why we think attorneys may want to be as educated as possible, so their clients get the insurance benefits they deserve."

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-rel...-those-with-covid-19-and-mecfs-301320464.html

 

[Sly Saint]

Winning Isn't Easy: Eight Common Reasons Why ME/CFS Long-Term Disability Claims Get Denied

https://caveylaw.com/frequent-questions/ | Long-Term and ERISA Disability attorney Nancy Cavey hosts a podcast to inform disability insurance policyholders of what they should know before they stop working and apply for their disability insurance benefits, or appeal a wrongful denial or termination of their claim. In this episode, Attorney Cavey details some of the most common reasons that Long-Term Disability Insurance companies will deny claims for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, so you know what to look out for before you submit your claim for disability benefits. Nancy Cavey is a St. Petersburg, Florida based Long-Term and ERISA Disability attorney who can help you file a claim for benefits no matter where you live in the United States.

 

[Trish]

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