Americans Suffering From Long Covid Fight Insurers for Benefits

Brandi Goodwin caught Covid-19 while tending to patients as a point-of-care technician at a Norwalk, Ohio, hospital in December 2020. When body aches and headaches lingered after she returned to work, she attributed it to stress from college exams.

But when her symptoms morphed into the multisystem disorder POTS and other related conditions, Goodwin was denied long-term disability from Unum Life Insurance Co. of America and eventually fired from her job. It took weeks of frantic searching to find a lawyer to take her case. Four years later, Goodwin is still fighting Unum in court.

Her ...