About Ian O. Smith

Since 2002, Ian has been representing sick and injured people who are coping with serious medical conditions.  They find themselves riddled with pain and fatigue, unable to work, and receiving Social Security disability benefits . . . yet the insurers to which they pay premiums refuse to recognize that they are disabled.  No matter how severe their conditions and symptoms, the insurance companies insist they are in good health and can work full-time.  Ian helps people facing this frustrating and financially paralyzing struggle.  For over 15 years, he has worked with clients from all walks of life and helped them secure the disability insurance benefits they deserve.

Through his dedication to a single practice area, Ian has become one of the leading claimant/plaintiff disability insurance benefit attorneys on the east coast.  Other attorneys dabble in this area, but it is the only type of work Ian does.  Ian has successfully resolved many employee benefit (ERISA) and privately purchased insurance policy cases.  He regularly achieves prompt monthly benefit reinstatements, lump sum settlements, and policy buyouts, often without time-consuming litigation.

Ian was raised in Connecticut and graduated from Trinity College (B.A., 1995) and the University of Connecticut School of Law (J.D., 1999).  He has never represented an insurance company of any type in any matter.