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Labor/Employment,
Insurance,
Health Care & Hospital Law

Oct. 20, 2009

Ill Workers Denied Benefits Face Fight Alone

First in a two-part series. A Daily Journal investigation finds that disabled workers are denied the disability coverage their middle class jobs are supposed to afford them. Because of ERISA laws, the insurers are effectively unregulated.

By Evan George

Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - The pain had become unbearable for Marianne Dilley. Despite a surgery that was supposed to fix her degenerative disc disease, crushing pain throbbed in her neck, numbness settled in her left arm, and every nerve felt rubbed raw.

Her doctor prescribed large doses of Morphine and advised the Bay-area resident to stop working until her condition improved.

Thankfully, she thought, she was covered....

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