UnumProvident Charged with Intentionally Denying Disability Claims

Kahn Gauthier Swick is investigating a lawsuit against UnumProvident Corporation, the largest disability insurance company in the U.S., for UnumProvident wrongfully denying claims, or for ending benefits on claims they had originally approved. Shocking revelations have emerged about UnumProvident's policy of telling its workers they had to shut down enough claims to meet monthly targets in the millions of dollars. UnumProvident has denied disability benefits to a former eye surgeon with Parkinson's Disease, a car salesman rendered a quadriplegic in an auto accident, and a former school teacher suffering from a progressive, fatal form of emphysema.

One former UnumProvident employee told a television news program that "at the beginning of each month the projections would come down from the UnumProvident directors or above, who would give a number as to the amount of money the UnumProvident employee would have to come up with at the end of the month" in closed claims. "About the middle of the month," she continued, "UnumProvident would let us know if we were on track to meet our dollar amount for the month, and if we wouldn't, UnumProvident would really start pushing us to find more or to get the ones we thought we could get closed."

UnumProvident provides disability insurance through several subsidiaries:

• 1. First Unum Life Insurance Company (in New York only)
• 2. Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company
• 3. Provident Life and Casualty Insurance Company (in New York only)
• 4. Unum Life Insurance Company of America

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