You need to make sure that your disability lawyer has a shredder or has contracted with a shredding service to dispose of your medical records when they are no longer needed. Often lawyers make extra copies of your medical records and do not use them in your case. This new statute requires that the attorneys have a "disposal policy."
We have a shredder for small jobs-5 pages at a time or less. We have also hired a shredding service to take care of the big jobs. The shredding service provides a free locked bin for us to fill. At the end of each month, or earlier if we fill the bin, they take the bin and destroy the medical records. All ERISA disability firms should be doing something similar.
Thanks to Sheppard Mullin and the laboremploymentlawblog.com for bringing this to my अत्तेंशन.
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