An ERISA Plan Administrator’s Playbook in Assessing Disability from “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”
Some of the more challenging disability claims involve impairment resulting from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. There are no tests for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and the impairment assessment often relies heavily on self-reported symptoms and…the credibility of the claimant and the treating physician.
But there are distinct ways to help the court assess these claims. This new case provides a helpful playbook of arguments to make in assessing chronic fatigue, or self-reported, disability types of cases. Lukianczyk …
