In a lawsuit filed against Cigna for refusing to cover weight loss medication, a Maine worker described the condition and its impact too generally, the appeals court said.

Colorado Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera on Thursday declared a disaster emergency for a massive outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in Weld County north of Denver. The Colorado Department ...

WASHINGTON — A federal watchdog warned lawmakers that the Department of Veterans Affairs needs to fully revise the 80-year-old criteria for awarding disability payments or risk miscalculating benefits ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Keely founded Making Space, closing the disability employment gap. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...

The Office of Congressional and Government Affairs (OCGA) is the principal liaison office between the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and Capitol Hill. About ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Disney's Disability Access Service (DAS) allows guests who cannot wait in a conventional queue to wait elsewhere. Changes last year specify DAS is for guests with developmental disabilities like ...

Accommodations for cognitive disabilities and mental health conditions have also drawn more scrutiny than accommodations for physical disabilities. Stephen T. Hall-Nunez ’28, the co-president of the ...

In her new book “Popcorn Disabilities: The Highs and Lows of Disabled Representation in the Movies,” film critic and author Kristen Lopez says she wasn’t interested in writing “an academic book or one ...

New York’s Commercial Divisions are increasingly using early mediation to resolve business disputes quickly and cost-effectively. Courts direct cases to mediators soon after filing, often leading to ...

Republicans’ hostility to Social Security in general has been well-documented over the years. Less widely recognized is their antagonism for one component of the program: disability coverage. As a ...

Disability advocates are speaking out as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to take on a case that hinges on whether a diagnosis of intellectual disability should be based on more than an IQ score. The ...