"It is imperative that applications for long-term disability due to long-haul COVID-19 ... be scrutinized to determine if a claimant continues to be residually or totally disabled.... Engaging medical experts to review a claimant's medical records will be vital to ensuring that only legitimate claims are paid. It is expected that courts are likely to undertake a fact-based analysis, and as scientists begin better understand the effects of long-haul COVID-19, it is expected that there may be guidelines for diagnosis simi- lar to chronic fatigue."  MORE >>