An ophthalmologist with a worsening and painful wrist condition needed help getting total disability benefits from an individual disability insurance policy sold by Principal Life. Attorney Edward Dabdoub, the founding attorney of Dabdoub Law Firm, took the lead on this case. With his efforts, we were able to secure the disability insurance benefits our client was owed with minimal issues.
Details of the Ophthalmology Specialist Case
Our client is a young ophthalmologist who specializes in eye and retina surgeries and injections, which allows him to perform a variety of important procedures that most ophthalmologists cannot. He needs exact precision while performing a procedure, or else the patient’s eyes and eyesight could be put at extreme risk of injury or blindness.
Despite his relatively young age, he began to experience pain, weakness, and unsteadiness in his right wrist, which is his dominant wrist and the only one that he has trained well enough to perform the tasks necessary for his occupation. He wanted to keep pursuing the career that he loved so much, but in May 2024, he had to accept that it would not be safe for him to keep performing such specialized and precise procedures. At first, he tried to reduce the number of patients he saw and change the types of procedures he would complete, but nothing seemed to help; not even a steroid injection made an appreciable difference.
When he contracted COVID, which is now understood to be a vascular disease, his wrist symptoms worsened significantly. To this day, he is dealing with Long COVID. He continues to try to work because he loves his career but cannot perform surgeries, injections, or specialized procedures, and he typically works a maximum of 8 hours per week. Before his injury and bout with COVID, he worked full-time and would often see 60 patients a day.
Attorney Dabdoub explained to Principal Life that his client was totally disabled under the terms of the individual disability insurance policy that was sold to him. With him leading the way in this case, the insurance company agreed he was disabled from working in his own occupation and approved his claim.
Lawyers with Expertise in Disability Insurance Claims
This law firm has always focused only on disability insurance law. Because we specialize in long-term disability, our clients get the benefit of:
- Having an attorney who is an expert in long-term disability claims;
- Having an attorney who has experience with every major disability insurance company; and
- Being backed by a law firm that has a proven track record of winning tough disability lawsuits.
Call the Dabdoub Law Firm to get experienced disability lawyers on your side. We can help with:
- Submitting a disability insurance claim;
- Appealing a long-term disability denial;
- Negotiating a lump-sum settlement; or
- Filing a lawsuit against your disability insurance company.
The firm represents clients nationwide with disability claims governed by federal law, even if we are not located in your state.
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