Federal Disability Retirement and MSPB Attorney Chris Attig talks about a tactic to use if OPM is unnecessarily delaying your application for FERS/CSRS disability retirement.
Attorney Chris Attig with the Attig Law Firm in Dallas, Texas, has been named as a 2011 Texas Rising Star by Super Lawyers Magazine.
Federal Disability Retirement attorney Chris Attig announces the Firm’s success in securing disability retirement benefits for a FERS employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
Federal Disability Retirement attorney Chris Attig announces the Firm’s success in securing disability retirement benefits for a FERS employee of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) who was severely disabled in the line of duty.
Federal Disability Retirement Attorney Chris Attig discusses what conditions you should include on your application for FERS/CSRS disability retirement.
MSPB Attorney Chris Attig discusses what a Federal Agency must prove to remove an employee for medical inability to perform the functions of a job.
Can you use medical evidence, developed after your separation from civil service, to establish entitlement to disability retirement? A Federal Circuit decision says yes. In Reilly v. Office of Personnel Management, 571 F.3d 1372 (Fed. Cir 2009), the Federal Circuit Court held that post-separation medical evidence can be probative of whether the appellant became disabled while serving in a FERS or CSRS position “[w]here proximity in time, lay testimony, or some other evidence provides the requisite link to the [...]
Attorney Chris Attig, an attorney handling Federal Disability Retirement applications and VA Disability Compensation, reports on a recent MSPB Decision that may give some Veterans who were denied Federal Employee Disability Retirement an opportunity to reopen their appeal.
Federal and Postal Disability Retirement attorney Chris Attig explains when and how an applicant for disability retirement can recover his or her attorney fees from OPM.
Chris Attig, an MSPB and Federal Disability Retirement attorney with the Attig Law Firm, explains what evidence is needed to prove mental incompetence was the reason for a late-filed application for Federal Disability Retirement.
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