Long-Term Disability Insurance — What Went Wrong?

We have all been there at some point in our lives.  A promise is made.  A promise is broken.  We feel cheated, and maybe even a little hurt.  When you feel that you operate from a place of honesty, and others do not, the entire experience can be disillusioning.  In their simplest form, disability insurance contracts are promises.

In several years of assisting clients with their disability insurance claims, we have made a few observations.  Our clients are responsible. Our clients work hard.  They made choices about their financial future they believed were correct. They played by the rules.

It is not you. It is the insurers. Insurers change the rules.  It has almost become part of the insurance industry’s normal operating procedures. Often times, that is why an insurance company’s sales department is separated from its claims department. Promises made by one part of the organization may be more easily broken by another part of the company. Here, the law serves a purpose.  The law is here to hold insurers accountable.   Nothing more.   Nothing less, either.

Disability insurance cases involve two of the most emotional issues that many of us will ever face. Disability insurance cases involve the intersection of health and finances. Our firm understands this, and we approach these cases with this firmly in mind.

Below are a list of our firm’s guiding principles:

Total Investment.  Our approach is spend considerable time at the outset, getting to know our clients and the individual facts of their case.  While we are selective in the number and types of cases that we litigate at any one time, this is because once we sign on, we are fully invested.

Winning Your Case.  We strive to win cases. We cannot guarantee legal outcomes, of course, because a host of different factors may affect a case’s outcome.  That fact does not change our focus.   We want to win on the quality of our written and public presentations.  We routinely face major corporate law firms with plenty of resources and armies of lawyers.  We want our presentations to win because we are on the right side of the issues and the law.  We are committed to submit quality presentations on behalf of our clients.  Every time.  No exceptions.

Individualized Service.  We strive to provide the individual level of client service that our clients have come to expect of us through the years. We are in constant communication with our clients.   We return all phone calls and email messages within one day. We are proud of our courtroom record, and we regularly review the hundreds of letters that we’ve received from satisfied clients to keep us focused on our commitment.  Most of these inspiring letters say the same thing — what was promised in the beginning is what was delivered at the end.  You should know, as our clients have attested, that once we sign on, there is no hand-wringing.  We are with you.  That is our commitment to you.

We look forward to serving you.