The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a piece of civil rights legislation designed to protect the rights of people with disabilities. It was passed into law in 1991 and guarantees equal rights ...

A woman walking past a man in a wheelchair, who is at the base of a staircase. Source: Viacheslav Yakobchuk / Adobe Stock In 1904, H. G. Wells published a short story titled, “The Country of the Blind ...

As many employment lawyers are now well aware, determining what is and what is not a "disability" under the applicable laws can be a litigation minefield. With the enactment of the ADA Amendments Act ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andrew Pulrang writes about disability practices, policy, and culture. Oct 14, 2019, 12:17pm EDT Oct 14, 2019, 07:23pm EDT This ...

As part of our continuing series on the rapid rise in the number of people receiving federal disability payments, we explore the world of disability lawyers. It's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News.

In its recently published opinion in Summers v. Altarum Institute, Corp., No. 13-1645, decided January 23, 2014, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit became the first federal ...

Radical technologies around the world may soon overhaul the field of disability and immobility, which affects in some way more than a billion people around the world. MIT bionics designer Hugh Herr, ...

Disability insurance should be a key part of your overall financial planning. Insurance is designed to cover losses that are too big to cover with your own out-of-pocket funds. Life insurance provides ...

It's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Audie Cornish. All this week, we're reporting on a remarkable increase in the size of the country's disability programs. Fourteen million Americans now ...