While there is some month-to-month variation in filings, disability lawsuits have been generally falling since they peaked with over one thousand new filings during August 2013. The count of 660 lawsuits during March 2018 represents a 37 percent decline from that peak.

According to case-by-case court records analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University, these declines during the past five years mark a clear change from the first half of this past decade when disability suits had been steadily climbing.

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