Long Term Disability ERISA and Private Disability Insurance Claims
Social Security Disability (SSD)
Florida City and State Pension Disability Claims
Your Rights to Florida Workers’ Compensation Benefits - Medical Care and Lost Wage Benefits
Florida First Responders and Their Rights to Workers' Compensation Benefits

Florida's First Responder Heart/Lung Benefits: What You Need to Know
Your Wage and Hour Rights -Information Your Employer Never Wanted You to Hear.
Your Rights to Social Security Disability Benefits - Information the Social Security Administration Rarely Tells Your About Your Claim.
Robbed of Your Peace of Mind? Important Information on Long Term Disability Insurance Policies, The Claims Process, and How to Win Your Long Term Disabality Benefits.On the page below you can find links to documents, reports, publications and discussions provided by Cavey & Barrett.
The documents below are available to the public so that they can gain a better understanding of the legal challenges facing them, and why an experienced attorney is so important for success.
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Learn how disability Insurance Companies take advantage of the disabled by writing disability policies to limit the benefits and fail to assist in completing disability insurance claims. Long term disability insurance companies issue generic claim denials that lull the disabled into appealing without getting the assistance of an ERISA/long term disability attorney and use activities of daily living forms to put surveillance on the disabled. Nancy Cavey offers the book "Robbed of your Peace of Mind" to assist the disabled in avoiding mistakes in the ERISA/disability insurance process.
Learn the 6 things that you should do before you file a long term disability or ERISA disability claim so you can avoid make crucial mistakes that will destroy your claim. Getting your medical records, long term disability or ERISA policy and dealing with group heath coverage are just 3 of the things you should do before applying for long term disability or ERISA benefits.
Your employer offered you a disability or ERISA disability policy to help you if you became disabled, but did not guarantee you a job if you became disabled. While you should cooperate with your employer in any return to work effort, you should get statements from your co-employees about those efforts. Be especially careful about changing your job to less demanding or one that pays less as you may be changing your own occupation resulting in reduced long term disability benefits. Your employer won't help you, you need to help yourself.
There are lots of half-truths and myths floating around about the Social Security Disability Applications process.
The process of applying for Social security mental disability benefits can be a daunting one.
The Center for Justice and Democracy has authored a landmark paper on how Workers' Compensation programs are failing injured workers on a national level.
A new law on Florida's books has made it even harder for injured workers to recieve compensation for pain and suffering.
From the Florida Department of Financial Services, here is a list of non-fatal workplace injuries that occurred in Florida for 2006.
Taken from the Florida Department of Financial Services
A surprise inspection of Florida Employers to see if they were up to specifications led to some surprising results.
Filing a workers' compensation claim can be an uphill battle. One of the best ways to insure that you are treated decently is to be as organized as possible.
A new case expands the Florida First Responder Presumptions found in Heart/Lung Bill, Section 112.18(1). If you have a presumed condition, such as tuberculosis, heart disease or hypertension, which causes other medical conditions, the presumption expands to include those otherwise non-compensable conditions. Your employer must present clear and convincing evidence that your presumed compensable condition condition or the progression of that condition was caused by a specific non-work-related event for exposure. Otherwise, you're entitled to the presumption and Florida workers' compensation benefits!
A penny a pound increase demand from tomato pickers in Florida has led to resistance from the growers.
September 2007 Cavey Law Newsletter including a Shocking Insider Report
Big insurance companies spend millions on advertising so they can deny thousands of claims.
There is a ridiculous three year delay on appeals cases for Social Security Disability.
Florida attorneys Cavey and Barrett present a list of common conditions that could qualify you for disability benefits.
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