Michigan should reject ‘repetitive sickness’ as a bar to physician disability claims
Media Contact: Barbara M. Fornasiero, EAFocus Communications; [email protected]; 248.260.8466
Royal Oak, Mich.—October 29, 2025—The Nolan v. Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company
lawsuit filed this week by national employee benefits litigation and ERISA attorney J.J. Conway on
behalf of a Michigan vascular surgeon seeks to overturn the Michigan Supreme Court ruling in Nehra v.
Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company, 454 Mich. 110 (1997), which narrowly defines injury
so as to exclude repetitive injury disabilities prevalent in the nature of a surgeon’s work.
According to published studies, surgeons