Were there no disability benefits? Short term disability through an employer usually isn’t hard to get. Maybe you didn’t have it as a contract employee-? Did they make you resign with no chance to get disability through them? Did they pressure you to sign something while you were in there?

Long term disability is harder to get though. An attorney told me most people do lose their job before they can get on it. I was working with an attorney for my husband who was in the hospital for months (not me—FYI). His company was spinning off his division and I was hair trigger ready to sue them if they laid him off while he was in the hospital, because they didn’t lay off his boss. Fortunately they didn’t, but they did some other people. They knew I had an attorney to deal with the health insurance co. and the hospital and that might have helped but I don’t know.

I can’t stand all the scary sounding letters they send.