Empire Life Attending Physician's Statement (STD/LTD)

Empire Life's Group Forms Library lists this form as the Attending Physician's Statement for short- and long-term disability; it is the industry Initial Disability Insurance Medical Statement, June 2025 version. Empire's claimant statement tells employees that the physician treating their current injury or sickness must complete an attending physician's statement for a disability claim.

Who completes it

The employee completes Section 1 (patient information, medications and consent), and the attending physician or other medical provider completes Section 2, the Medical Statement. The employee and employer also complete Empire's own claimant and employer statements.

Submitting and payment

How to submit it
Empire's claimant statement goes to its Life and Disability Claims team in Group Solutions by mail, fax or email; the medical statement itself prints no return address.
Who pays
Empire's claimant statement tells the employee they are responsible for any fee the physician charges for completing the form.

Good to know

  • Short-term disability claims use the Weekly Indemnity employee's (GH-0053-EN) and employer's (GH-0052-EN) statements; long-term disability and life waiver claims use employer statement GB-0002-EN.
  • The Claimant's Statement for Disability Benefits (G-0019-EN) asks the employee to list every health professional consulted in the past two years.
  • The statement asks for the patient's symptoms with history, severity and frequency, and whether they have improved, not changed or retrogressed.
  • Its Notice to Physician says the statement is kept in the insurer's benefits file and may be accessible to the patient or to others authorized by law.

Get the official form

Download the current version from the source each time; forms change without notice.

Initial Disability Insurance Medical Statement

Fill it with Vero

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Frequently asked questions

Does Empire Life have its own attending physician statement?

Empire's Group Forms Library links the industry Initial Disability Insurance Medical Statement under the title Attending Physician's Statement, Short/Long Term Disability, for group plan members and administrators. The PDF is the standard June 2025 version, without Empire-specific questions, and Empire also keeps a French group forms library.

Who pays the doctor for Empire Life disability forms?

The employee. Empire's Claimant's Statement for Disability Benefits says the employee is responsible for paying any fee the physician charges for completing the form, and the medical statement itself states that the patient is responsible for any fees related to its completion.