Things to Consider Before Hiring a Life Insurance Lawyer

When a loved one dies and your life insurance company denies your life insurance claim, you need an experienced life insurance lawyer on your side. The right life insurance attorney can get your denied life insurance claim paid fast. There are several things you need to consider when you search for an attorney who deals with denied death claims. 

  • Experience 

First, when it comes to fighting denied life insurance claims, experience matters! A life insurance company may use a variety to reasons to deny your life insurance claim and your attorney should know how to fight all of them. Only an experienced life insurance lawyer who has worked with many life insurance claim denials and delays and who has fought many life insurance companies will be able to get you the results you want. 

  • Area of practice 

Second, a death claims lawyer fighting denials must have great knowledge of the life insurance law and know how life insurance companies deny life insurance claims. For example, life insurance or an accidental death claim may be denied due to life insurance lapse, life insurance beneficiary disputes, exclusions in the policy, failure to submit evidence of insurability, failure to file a conversion application, material misrepresentation, automatic revocation upon divorce and many other reasons. To successfully appeal the denial and overturn the insurance company’s unfavorable decision, your life insurance attorney must know how to handle life insurance matters. Life insurance lawyers working exclusively in the field of life insurance law are better equipped to get your denied life insurance claim paid fast. During your initial consultation with an attorney ask him/her whether life insurance law is their main area of practice. At Kadetskaya Law Firm, our life insurance attorneys handle exclusively life insurance matters of different types. If your death claim has been denied, call us for help. 

  • Fees 

Third, ask about all the fees that may be involved. When you consider which law firm to hire to fight a large life insurance that denied your claim, you want the best life insurance attorney. However, legal work may be very expensive. Some life insurance lawyers charge an hourly fee that must be paid upfront even if they are not successful at getting you any money. Moreover, there may be litigation costs associated with fighting a life insurance claim denial in court. Contingent fee contracts, on the other hand, allow a life insurance beneficiary whose claim has been denied to hire an attorney without paying anything upfront but paying a percentage of the recovered sum if the life insurance lawyer wins the case. This may help beneficiaries of life insurance policies whose claim has been denied to hire a lawyer for life insurance claims even if they do not have a large sum of money to pay the legal fee upfront. At Kadetskaya Law Firm, our attorneys work mostly on a contingent fee basis and charge a fee only if they win your case. 

  • Client Reviews 

Fourth, online research is very importance. Today, most research is done online. Researching a life insurance attorney should not be an exception.  There are many different websites (such as avvo.com) that allow clients to write a review for their life insurance lawyer’s service online independently of the law firm.  Attorneys cannot remove an unfavorable review posted by their clients and can only comment on a review. While searching for a life insurance lawyer to hire, focus on reading client reviews. It will allow you to accurately assess your life insurance lawyer’s skills and professionalism. Kadetskaya Law Firm has dozens of positive five-star reviews of grateful clients whom we helped to get their denied death claims overturned. 

  • Communication 

Finally, one of the main reasons clients are unhappy with their attorneys is poor communication. Life insurance attorneys are busy and may have many client meetings, court appearances, depositions, etc. However, when it comes to communication, they must set aside time to return emails and calls to make sure their clients are aware of everything that is happening in their case. Unfortunately, not all law firms are great at returning client calls in a timely fashion. Not only does this cause frustration in a new client, but it can also undermine trust in the life insurance lawyer and even the success of the case. If your life insurance claim has been denied and you are considering a particular law firm, ask them about their practices of communicating and decide what level of communication you are comfortable with. One of the central topics in all of our client reviews at Kadetskaya Law Firm is the accessibility of our life insurance lawyers. We usually return client calls and emails within a few hours. 

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Attorney Tatiana Kadetskaya has over 10 years of experience in life insurance law representing beneficiaries and policy owners. She is best known for successfully collecting denied and delayed claims and settling complex beneficiary disputes and interpleader lawsuits.

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