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Health Insurance Provider Hartford Spies on Disability Claimants

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Hartford Insurance has been caught spying on disability patients.  Chris Cuomo of ABC reported the abuses of using videotape surveillance to follow people who are clearly disabled and have been diagnosed by a physician.  Are the insurance companies qualified to diagnose disabilities?  UCAN thinks not and wants physicians and patients to determine what is best for patients.  No one wants to see fraud of course, but what you see on the video borders on invasion of privacy and probably feels like stalking to the people being followed and photographed everywhere they go.

Don't you question whether or not the people targeted by Hartford are costing the most?  It makes us wonder how many other insurance companies are doing the same thing.  Tell us your experiences. Post the name of the company, what specifically happened and steps you have taken to resolve the problem.

If you have been a vcitm of clearly being diagnosed with a disability,had your claim approved and then were dropped for something as minor as dipping food into a sauce, fill out a general complaint form.

 

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On Friday, September 16,2011

On Friday, September 16,2011 I was in my local grocery store. I shop there mainly because they provide help with getting your things into the car at no additional charge. I was two thirds of the way through the store when I heard behind me yelling, " There is nothing wrong with you. You can walk and push a cart. Get a damn job."
I turned to see the man who said these things with a women and a child that looked to be around ten years of age.
After positioning myself I was able to look the man directly in the eyes. He appeared to be uncomfortable and taking his cues from the women.
After collecting my thoughts I redirected them to shopping (as this was not my first experience like this though still very upsetting) only to be physically hit by aonther cart being pushed by a different person. I may never know if she intentionally hit me but there was plenty of room no one else around and it felt intentional.
I have legally disabled since 1996 with common variable immune difficiency disease (cvid) and fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue and Dystonia.
Can anyone tell me how to stpo this? If someone has legal authority to observe me because of my disability what would have caused them to have this authority? I take intraveinous gamma globulin on a monthly basis and have for many years. I see a pain doctor for the fibro and dystonia pain. Because of my immune system I am unable to be treated for the Dystonia with the usual treatments of cortisone and botox. I live alone now most of the time.
My only child recently left for college and drops in on the occasional weekend. I pushed very hard to get to this place in my life and would like to be able to live my life without fear.
Thank you for your time and attention to this matter.

Hiii

We pay disability benefits through two programs: the Social Security disability insurance program and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. This booklet is about the Social Security disability program

http://www.biblehealth.com/celiac-disease/what-is-celiac-disease.html

Hiii

Disability is something most people do not like to think about. But the chances that you will become disabled probably are greater than you realize. Studies show that a 20-year-old worker has a 3 in 10 chance of becoming disabled before reaching retirement age.
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Surveillance while on Long term Disability

I have The Hartford as my disability insurance and yes, I was under surveillance for two days. How do I know? They told me!

agree with other respondents

Ditto in regards to other respondents re: Hartford. Can anything action be taken?

Surveillance

These guys do a lot more than "spy" on claimants. I am going trhu it first hand. And it is ugly. They use all kinds of tactics to cut off people disabiltity pay checks regradless if it is a valid claim.

First is they harrass ones Doctor. Redundant requests, demanding quick repsonses, requesintg notes many times, having other doctor call up. My docotr received 6 requests in one month from the insurace company.

The insruance companies also have alls kinds of conversations on the telephone that result in totally squewed meanings from clever twisting of facts by ommissions, rewording, and straight fabrication. Of course this is now in the claim file as record and hard to dispute when the insurance company wont release the recorded phone calls.

insurnace company claims they only surveille you a few days, but in reality it can be weeks or months. And yes it get very scarey to have these guys stalkign you for months on end.

I believe the insruance uses very illegal methods thru the use of third party vendors for surveilance. For instance, how can a car follow another car to a place 75 miles away, down a one lane road, when the leading car stops numerous times on a roadway with zero traffic. Then the surveillacve happens? impossible unless gps was used.

these insurance comapnies get away with anything and the penalties and regulation are non-existant. So why would they change? they write the loopholes into the laws and donate enough money to the campaigns. How could it be any different? Long term disability insruance what a SCAM!

disability co. surveilance

How did you know you were being video taped? Was it fairly obvious as in a strange vehicle parked in fromt of your house?

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