My understanding has been that in recent years the largest entity representing Social Security disability claimants has been Myler Disability, which was based in Utah but which represented claimants across the country. However, I now find out from a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that Myler has been acquired by Trajector, Inc., a much larger company which is involved in a number of projects that seems to center around medical records. Trajector has plans to make an initial public offering of $100 million worth of shares to the public. I don't think this has happened yet, however.
That's all I know, folks. I'd be interested in hearing more from an old Myler employee who is now a Trajector employee or anyone else who knows something about this.
By the way, this has more than a few similarities to the Binder and Binder saga -- without the publicity, however.
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Hey Charles, Dan Bott here. I'm the President of Trajector Disability and I'd love to answer any questions you have. I worked for Myler Disability for 15 years prior to my current position as president, and, as an attorney, I've represented many thousands of clients before SSA.
The main reason for Myler Disability being sold to Trajector Inc was an exit strategy for Brad Myler. This happened over a year ago and the transition has been extremely smooth. We've retained all of the Myler Disability employees and, other than now answering the phone with a different name, our clients have not been impacted by the change.
Joining Trajector Inc has been exciting and allows us to be involved with sister companies that also serve the disabled population, particularly veterans who have service-connected disabilities.
If you or anyone else has questions, I'd love to talk. Shoot me an email and we can set up a time to visit: danb@trajectordisability.com.
Thanks for the clarification Dan. Not only will Social Security Disability Claimants get the same crappy representation but the crappy representation will be extended to Veterans as well. Bravo.
Actually Myler/Trajector does a really good job representing their claimants.
@2:24, Sorry you feel this way. I'll compare our representation of clients to that of anyone else. What matters most are objective results and our record speaks for itself. We have the largest group of salaried hearing attorneys in the entire country, each of which is very well trained and experienced, with their average tenure in our employment being over 8 years. I'll defend the work they do, as well the rest of our staff, to my dying breath. We offer excellent, zealous representation to our clients and your baseless attack doesn't match the experience of those we represent.
As I mentioned earlier, if you or anyone else would like to talk specifics, please reach out. I'm always happy to discuss things.
Thanks, Howard! I've got nothing but praise for you and many of our other competitors out there. We're all in this together and the more we work as a team, the better we'll make things for those we represent.
How can Howard be a competitor? He does your court appeals, since you are not a law firm.
No need to badmouth other disability attorneys. We are all trying to help.
Plenty of disabled to go around. Most claimants unfortunately are not represented.
The SSA needs to raise the fee cap and the 25 percent.
One of the most interesting parts of the prospectus is the revelation that Utah now allows ownership of law firms by non-lawyers. This is probably the beginning of the end of traditional law firms. I look forward to working for McLaw. "You want fries with that motion?"
@9:30 Wrong. Bradford Myler, an attorney, started his firm in the 1990s. He took what Binder started in the early 1980s in identifying an underrepresented clientele needing legal services to fight the SSA, which is like the biggest insurer in our country. Bradford perfected it. How do I know?
I cut my teeth with Binder in the mid 2000s for a few years. I got to fly around almost every OHO (then called ODAR) site West of the Mississippi including Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, and obscure cities like Cody, Wyoming, and Tuba City, Ariz. So I learned a lot.
Once I was done travelling, Bradford and others like Dan Bott recruited good attorneys to represent those in SoCal and the West and all across the nation. I personally interviewed with Dan and Bradford so he was not like just a caretaker owner. And last year, Bradford sold the firm to a CEO who already owned the biggest veterans disability law firm. Veterans are suffering battling the insufferable VA just like the SSA.
Now we are Trajector combining services in disability for SSD/SSI and now veterans. Happy Holidays!
Everything changes; for example, the disability bubble appears to have popped after an unsustainable 40 years
For those bemoaning attorneys...they wouldn't be needed if SSA did the "right thing."
Exactly @10:22.
I heard like the top 4 SSD/SSI disability firms (including Trajector) represent like only 10 percent of the entire possible disability clientele. There are plenty of those who need help.
So nothing will really change. Myler has inundated Field Offices with repetitive inquiries for the same data ( i.e. Status Requests , DLI , Award Letters - when they were clearly sent ), and incomplete submissions of Attorney Rep Forms (1696,1695.Fee Agreements).
@ 855. Maybe legitimate complaint.
But Trajector has to diligently check up on the status at the OHO levels. Not sure why zealously representing a client is wrong. We have to do this because reading the timeline of the OHO and DDS and their nonsense is like predicting the weather.
I really feel bad for the those working below the OHO level at the SSA. They are going to get a tsunami of disability claims in the next 1-2 years due to Covid. It is going to clog the pipelines for a hearing. ALJs and OHO will be dying to do some work. Trust me it's coming.
The SSA is going to have to:
1. Hire more personnel. It is simply criminal the SSA only has like 50-60,000 employees at one time. Heard it was like 70,000 in the 1970s.
2. Get rid of the ridiculous reconsideration nonsense.
3. Raise the attorney fee cap stat so other non-SSD attorneys will be enticed to help claimants to properly develop the record.
4. Eliminate the obvious cheating of back due benes with the 5-month waiting period.
5. They also will have to hire more ALJs if they can find them in a reasonably time manner.
NOSSCR and other lobbyists need to put pressure on those worthless Democrats and Republicans who claim to care about the disabled but only care about appeasing older Americans already on Social Security because they vote.
https://www.renaissancecapital.com/IPO-Center/News/89930/Benefit-eligibility-platform-Trajector-withdraws-$100-million-IPO
@8:55 AM
"So nothing will really change. Myler has inundated Field Offices with repetitive inquiries for the same data ( i.e. Status Requests , DLI , Award Letters - when they were clearly sent ), ..."
The answer: All of this information and more should be online and available to claimants and their representatives.
No sane business today would require a phone call to obtain simple information that can be provided electronically. I would rather have the employees at SSA producing Award Letters than answering questions about whether they were mailed.
Yes, we still need the phone and even in-person appointments for those who don't have the electronics or the know how to obtain this information electronically. But that does not include claimant's representatives. At least, I hope not.
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