Solutions, Life & Health, Group LTD

Knowing when to close it out

Group LTD durations stretch into months and years, most of it spent waiting on records, chasing offsets and re-reading APS updates that never move the file. Owl reads every page on arrival, scores duration against an industry cohort table, and surfaces the off-file evidence the day it first appears.

One file, month-by-month18-mo window
P50 close, M9
This file, M14
M0M3M6M9M12M15

M9 M14

Cohort P50 vs. this file

$2,840 / mo

SSDI offset detected via SSA feed

184 prior claims

Treating NPI seen across 11 carriers

03A real claim, walked end to end

One file: 612 pages, 14 months, four open questions.

Anonymized composite. Claimant K.M., 48, sedentary office occupation, M54.5/M51.16 onset 2024-03. The file has been sitting in a duration-management queue for six months.

Claim #
LTD-2024-0309-K
LOB
Group LTD, 24mo own-occ
Onset
2024-03-12
Status
Beyond cohort P50
Reserve
$284K
OwlVision
What it read
APS, Treating Physician (3 revisions)
412 pp
Read, Indexed, Cited
Occupational duties (employer)
14 pp
Read, Indexed, Cited
IME report
38 pp
Read, Contradiction flagged
FCE report
22 pp
Read, Indexed, Cited
EHR pull (Datavant, 24mo)
126 pp
Read, Indexed, Cited
Structured extraction
Onset 2024-03-12. Dx M54.5, M51.16. Restrictions: no lifting >10lb, no prolonged sitting. Material duties of own occ: 6/9 unmet at FCE. APS revised twice 2025-04-18 → 2025-08-22 with no new imaging. IME 2025-09-04 inconsistent on lifting capacity
OwlSignal
What the world said about the claimant

External data only. None of this lives in your CMS. Owl gathered it from public records, professional networks, registries and the open web, then resolved it to this claimant.

INC-04
New consulting role on a public profile

A LinkedIn profile resolved to this claimant lists “Independent operations consultant” with a start date of 2025-06. The role description references on-site facility visits and a regular travel cadence, neither consistent with the sedentary, no-prolonged-sitting restriction in the APS.

LinkedIn (public)Identity match: 0.94
INC-09
New LLC filed in the corporate registry

Secretary of State filing in the claimant’s state of residence: “KM Operations Advisory LLC”, organized 2025-05-22, claimant listed as registered agent and sole member.

SOS corporate registryDate matched to LinkedIn role
CLM-02
SSDI award, retroactive to M8

Public SSA disability determination indicates an award was issued 2025-07-14 with retroactive entitlement to 2024-11. This implies an offset opportunity of ~$2,840/mo with $34K of recoverable past-due offset.

SSA public disability dataCross-checked vs. claim file (no notice of award on record)
ACT-13
Physical activity inconsistent with restrictions

Public posts on a fitness platform tied to the claimant show three documented 12-mile cycling sessions in the 90 days before the restriction-softening APS revision. Bookmarked for examiner review.

Strava (public)Identity match: 0.91
ADV-03
Court record, related civil filing

A small-claims filing in another county lists this claimant as plaintiff in an active matter that includes language about ongoing business operations, dated 2025-06-09.

County court docket (PACER-adjacent)Name + DOB match
OwlAssist
What it answered
Examiner asked
Has the claimant’s treating physician changed restrictions in the last 6 months, and is there a clinical basis for the change?
Owl answered in 1.4s

Yes, restrictions were revised twice. On 2025-04-18 the APS noted “no work, indefinite.” On 2025-08-22 it was revised to “sedentary, 4 hours/day.” Between those dates there is no new imaging, no new functional testing, and no new specialist consult in the file. The 2025-08-22 SOAP note references the claimant’s “request to attempt return.”

APS 2025-04-18 p.3APS 2025-08-22 p.4EHR 2025-04-18 → 2025-08-22
Examiner asked
Build the offset waterfall and tell me where SSDI lands.
Owl answered in 0.9s

Offset stack, in plan order: SSDI primary ($2,840/mo, retro to 2024-11), state DI not applicable (resident state), employer pension supplement ($410/mo, active 2024-09), other group disability not detected. Net offset against gross monthly benefit of $5,200 = $1,950 remaining. Estimated past-due recovery: $34,080 (12 months retro × $2,840).

SSA public data 2025-07-14Plan §4.2.b offset waterfallPension records pp.1–3
04OwlSignal external data

What the world says about your Group LTD claimants, none of which lives in your CMS.

Internal claim data is half the picture: it tells you what the claimant told you. OwlSignal continuously gathers external data (public records, professional and corporate registries, court dockets, social and open web) and matches it back to the claimant. These are the families that move the needle on Group LTD.

INCUnreported Income

New employment, new business filings, contract or consulting roles, ownership changes: sourced externally and resolved to the claimant. The most material LTD signal: it speaks directly to disability status under any-occ and to material-duties under own-occ.

Professional networks (LinkedIn, Indeed)Secretary of State / corporate registriesIRS public 990s and employer filings4506-T income reconstruction
STATChanges in Status

Address moves, new affiliations, marital changes, deaths, incarcerations: the eligibility-relevant life events claimants don’t self-report. On LTD these reset offset, beneficiary and jurisdiction calculus.

USPS NCOAState vital recordsVoter rollsPublic marriage / divorce dockets
ACTIrregular Activities

Open-web posts, athletic platform activity, public travel, mentions in news: cross-referenced against stated functional restrictions. We surface what the restriction says vs. what the world shows the claimant doing.

Public social postsStrava / athletic platformsLocal news mentionsPublic travel signals
ADVAdverse Reports

Court dockets, criminal filings, financial distress events, sanctions, watchlists: the public-record signals that change the eligibility shape of an open LTD file.

PACER + state court docketsCounty criminal recordsOFAC + sanctions listsBankruptcy filings
CLMClaim Violations

Multi-claim ties across other carriers, SSDI awards, state DI awards, double-dip exposure: surfaced from external networks and government feeds, not from the four walls of your CMS.

ISO ClaimSearchSSA public disability dataState DI databases (CA EDD, NY, NJ, RI, HI)NPPES provider claim history
NETProvider & Vendor Networks

The treating physicians, IME vendors and plaintiff attorneys associated with this claim, scored against industry-wide claim outcomes, using cross-carrier data Owl curates, not records you have access to internally.

Cross-carrier provider claim outcomesState medical board sanctionsNPI affiliation graphPlaintiff-bar pairing patterns
Refreshed daily, matched by identity-resolution, every observation cited to its source.
05What changes

Numbers from L&H carriers running Owl on Group LTD in production.

MetricWithout OwlWith Owl
Records read end-to-end34%100%
FNOL → first liability decision47 days6 days
Avg duration on cohort-managed claims11.4 mo8.6 mo
SSDI offset capture rate63%94%
Past-due offset recovered (avg / claim)$8,200$28,400
Duration-leakage (avg / claim)$1,840$610
Source: rolling 12-month average across 6 L&H carriers, Group LTD only, n = 41,200 claims.

Built for the regulatory shape of Group LTD.

07Integrations

Lives where your Group LTD files live.

Claim systems

FINEOS, Guidewire ClaimCenter, DCS, DXC, in-house mainframe

Document intake

Box, OnBase, Documentum, ImageRight, Kofax

EHR / records

Epic, Cerner, MRO, Verisma, Ciox/Datavant

Vendor networks

IME providers, FCE labs, vocational consultants, surveillance

Coordinated benefits

SSA, state DI (CA, NY, NJ, RI, HI), provincial WCB

Identity & SSO

Okta, Azure AD, PingFederate, SAML, SCIM provisioning

08Get started

Bring us a closed Group LTD file. We’ll show you what it would have answered on day one.

Two-week pilot. Your records, your tenant, your plan language. We measure cycle time, duration, offset capture and decision quality against your own ground truth.