Employment attorneys regularly advise clients whose workplace disputes overlap with serious health conditions, yet long-term disability insurance is often overlooked until valuable rights have already been lost. This presentation gives employment attorneys the practical knowledge needed to recognize potential ERISA disability issues before a client is terminated, signs a severance agreement, requests an ADA accommodation, or takes a position in employment litigation that could undermine a disability claim.

Using real-world examples and practical strategies, this CLE program explains how to preserve LTD coverage, negotiate appropriate carve-outs in severance agreements, manage benefit offsets, coordinate potentially conflicting employment and disability claims, and identify critical filing deadlines and plan provisions. Attendees will leave better equipped to spot these issues early, protect their clients’ financial security, and avoid costly, and sometimes irreversible, mistakes.