Ellen Bresnahan has helped hundreds of claimants understand their denial letters, craft winning appeals, and recover their disability and life insurance benefits.
Ellen founded Insurance Appeal Consultants after managing the highly successful Insurance Appeals department for Virginia’s leading disability and life insurance law firm. As the firm’s Insurance Appeals Department Head, she led an experienced team of attorneys, paralegals, writers and analysts, and recovered over $3 million annually in wrongfully denied disability and life insurance benefits for claimants. Ellen has won appeals against all major insurance carriers, recovering benefits for clients nationwide.
Prior to managing disability and life insurance appeals, Ellen served for 20 years in the US Navy and Navy Reserves as an intelligence officer. She began her active duty career as the squadron intelligence officer for one of the only tactical aviation squadrons open to women at the time, in Key West, FL. Ellen retired from the Navy Reserves after serving with the US Defense Attache Office in Moscow, Russia as an assistant US Naval Attache. She collected many sea stories at varied assignments in between.
A two-time cancer survivor, Ellen understands all too well what it means to be blindsided by a period of disability. She is passionate about helping others who are also facing some of the biggest, most unexpected challenges of their lives. Not surprisingly, the analytical and planning skills crucial for military success also apply to battling big insurance companies. Ellen is dedicated to fighting back against wrongful disability and life insurance denials by giving clients clear, practical, affordable guidance – and their best possible shot at a winning insurance appeal.
Ellen is the author of Recover Your Benefits: Keys to Successfully Navigating the Disability or Life Insurance Appeal Process.