"Expanded Definition Of Disability Created Million Dollar Opportunity For Lawyers"
"JOFFE-WALT: If someone is awarded disability benefits, that person will receive an average of 250- to $350,000 from the government in benefits and health care, over a lifetime. If you sued a company for that amount of money, even a tiny company, they would bring a lawyer with them to court. Not so with the government's disability program. There is the disability industrial complex on the one side. And on the other side? An empty chair.
Chana Joffe-Walt, NPR News.
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CORNISH: And our disability series continues tomorrow, with the story of a company, a very successful company, with one purpose: to help states move people off of welfare, and onto disability."
