Lebau & Neuworth Wins Disability Benefits For Persons With Migraines

Posted on May 8, 2023 in Disability Benefits, Disability Laws, Employee Benefits, Employee Rights, Employment Law, Social Security

The law firm of Lebau & Neuworth recently obtained long-term disability benefits on behalf of two clients who suffered from migraines but had their claims denied before seeking our representation.

Lebau & Neuworth Presentation Covers Nuts & Bolts of Social Security

Posted on January 1, 2023 in Disability Benefits, Employee Retirement Income Security Act, Employee Rights, Employment Law, Social Security

Richard Neuworth presentation “Social Security Disability Nuts & Bolts” presented to the Stetson University Law School LLM program addressed Social Security disability benefits.

Pregnancy Complications as a Disability & Telecommuting as a Reasonable Accommodation

Posted on January 18, 2021 in Disability Benefits, Disability Laws, Disabled & Advisability Laws, Employee Rights, Employment Law

The law now dictates that pregnancy, by itself, does not constitute a disability protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). However, an employee’s pregnancy-related complications can rise to the level of a protected disability under the ADA.

Lebau & Neuworth Partner Speaks to National Body on Supreme Court Social Security Decisions

Posted on August 6, 2019 in Disability Benefits, Disability Laws, Employee Rights, Employment Law, Social Security

As a featured speaker at the American Association for Justice 2019 Annual Convention, Lebau & Neuworth partner attorney Richard Neuworth addressed thousands of attendees on decisions made by the Supreme Court in 2018 and 2019 that affect Social Security disability cases.

Social Security Disability – New Changes Make Disability More Difficult

Posted on May 14, 2018 in Disability Benefits, Disability Laws, Employment Law

Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income (“SSI”), the two federal disability benefit programs, saw a lot of changes in 2017.

People with Disabilities will ALWAYS Matter – and Have Legal Rights

Posted on February 20, 2017 in Disability Benefits, Disability Laws, Disabled & Advisability Laws

Change under any new presidential administration can be frightening, especially for people with special needs. But for one particular New York Times contributor who happens to be a woman AND physically disabled, the removal of the Disabilities section of the White House website has her downright terrified.

EEOC Issues New Guidance on Mental Health Conditions

Posted on January 27, 2017 in Disability Benefits, Discrimination & Harassment, Employee Rights, Employment Law, Family & Medical Leave Act, Leave of Absence

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently posted a new "Workplace Rights" document for employees and job applicants with mental-health conditions.

Client With Disability Receives Justice Through The EEOC

Posted on November 13, 2016 in Disability Benefits, Discrimination & Harassment, Employee Rights

Patricia Bonds, a client of Lebau & Neuworth, worked as a food clerk at Safeway's Westminster, Maryland, store when she sustained a work-related injury that substantially limited her ability to lift. Although Safeway initially accommodated Bonds' disability by reassigning her to work at the customer service desk, the store abruptly placed her on indefinite unpaid leave, claiming that she had exhausted her time limits for modified duty.

Living with a Disability Through the Americans With Disabilities Act

Posted on August 23, 2016 in Disability Benefits, Discrimination & Harassment, Employee Rights

We owe much of this progress to the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 and the laws that led up to it. Starting in the 1960s, a broad disability rights movement encouraged legislation and policy that gradually desegregated the institutions and spaces that had kept disabled people out and barred them from exercising the privileges and obligations of full citizenship.

Reassignment as Reasonable Accommodation under Maryland Law

Posted on July 8, 2016 in Disability Benefits, Employee Rights

Recently in Peninsula Regional Medical Center v. Adkins, the Court of Appeals of Maryland, Maryland’s highest court, clarified what it means to be a qualified individual with a disability. In the case, the plaintiff, Tracy Adkins, sued her employer, Peninsula Regional Medical Center (PRMC), under the Maryland Fair Employment Practices Act (FEPA) for “intentional disability discrimination based on actual disability, intentional disability discrimination based on being regarded as having a disability, and failure to accommodate.”