UnumProvident Warns Obesity Increasing Disability Claims

UnumProvident (NYSE: UNM) reports a dramatic increase in disability claims for chronic health conditions that are linked to obesity. A UnumProvident report released earlier this year cited a tenfold increase over the past decade in short term disability claims in which obesity was identified as the primary diagnosis. The figures released this week look at data from the same time period (1996-2003), pulling from the company's database of 1.3 million disability claims, the largest private database of disability information in the nation. UnumProvident reports striking increases in cl...