This video features the testimony of Montana United States Senator Max Baucus at a Senate Finance Committee Meeting. Senator Baucus focuses his testimony on the problems with ERISA disability insurance laws and the unfair claims handling practices of disability insurance companies. Senator Baucus pays specific attention to two long term disability insurance claims that were wrongfully denied by The Standard Insurance Company and Hartford Financial Insurance Company. Senator Baucus states that Insurance companies engage in abusive tactics by having doctors with conflicts of interest review claims. He further notes that “loop holes in the law” permit disability insurance companies to get away with these abuses. Disability insurance Attorneys Gregory Dell and Stephen Jessup provide further analysis of Senator Baucus’ congressional testimony. We are thankful to have a pro-claimant advocate such as Senator Baucus. For additional information about ERISA and long term disability claims please visit our website at www.diattorney.com
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This video features Judge William Acker, Jr. testifying at Senate Finance Committee hearing discussing ERISA and long-term disability insurance claims. Disability insurance attorneys Gregory Dell & Stephen Jessup provide their thoughts on ERISA and the testimony of Judge Acker. Judge Acker has been a United States Federal Judge for the Northern District of Alabama since 1982. In 1998, Judge Acker wrote a law review article titled, “Can the Courts Rescue ERISA”. Judge Acker testifies that ERISA is a major problem and it continues to get worse every day. The full testimony of Judge Acker is much longer than this clip, but the point is that a Federal Judge has been trying to tell Congress since 1998 that ERISA is broken and it needs to be fixed. ERISA was enacted in 1974 and it has probably been the most litigated Federal statute in US history. For additional information about ERISA and long term disability claims please visit our website at www.diattorney.com