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Occupational and Vocational Assessments in Long Term Disability Claims

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Disability insurance companies often use occupational analyses and vocational assessments to evaluate whether you can continue working despite a medical condition. Insurers often rely on these tools to argue that you can still perform your own occupation or transition into another type of work. However, insurer occupational analyses are not always accurate and may misclassify occupations, overlook cognitive or physical limitations, and minimize the real-world demands of your job.

Understanding how these evaluations work can be critical when protecting your right to long term disability benefits.

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Can a Vocational Assessment Help My Long Term Disability Claim?

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A vocational assessment can provide a detailed, expert opinion that explains why your disability prevents you from working.

A vocational expert can achieve this by: (1) providing an accurate and comprehensive description of your job responsibilities; (2) highlighting the skills and abilities necessary to perform your job successfully; (3) clearly explaining your inability to meet particular work demands; and (4) providing an expert conclusion as to whether you can perform your own occupation or any other occupation.

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How Functional Limitations Can Disable You From Your Job

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Functional limitations from your disability can affect your ability to do your job and may support a disability claim. Your condition may cause limitations or restrictions that affect your job and prevent you from performing the requirements of your occupation or other occupations. You may suffer from exertional limitations, non-exertional limitations, or a combination thereof.

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About Riemer Hess

ﾌﾇﾐﾄﾖｱｲ･ is a national disability insurance law firm based in New York City. Our practice centers on long term disability and individual disability insurance claims for claimants and plaintiffs, including ERISA group LTD policies and private IDI policies. We also handle select long term care and life insurance matters where our insurance claim experience can help protect clients窶� rights to benefits.

For over 30 years, we窶况e represented professionals and executives nationwide in disability insurance claims, appeals, litigation, and benefit protection. We窶况e litigated more ERISA disability cases in the Southern District of New York than any other plaintiff窶冱 LTD firm, and our attorneys authored ERISA Disability Claims and Litigation, a legal textbook published by James Publishing.

We are Preferred Attorneys to the Brain Injury Association of America and have handled over 100 traumatic brain injury long term disability matters. We regularly represent clients with TBI, neurological disorders, complex spinal conditions, chronic pain, and other serious medical conditions affecting cognition, mobility, stamina, pain levels, and the ability to sustain work.

We also collaborate with disability and health advocacy organizations, including the U.S. Pain Foundation, to provide educational resources on chronic pain and disability insurance claims.

Clients trust us for our empathy, responsiveness, legal skill, and focused experience in LTD and IDI insurance claims.