NU Online News Service, Dec. 16, 2004, 9:27 a.m. EST
A Seattle lawyer is trying to organize a class-action lawsuit against a Hartford insurer over the insurer’s handling of disability claims.[@@]
The lawyer, Fred Langer, a partner at Nelson Tyler Langer P.L.L.C., has filed a suit in the U.S. District Court in Seattle that accuses Aetna Life Insurance Company of systematically denying and terminating valid short-term and long-term disability claims submitted by employees of The Boeing Company, Seattle, since 1998.