Lawyers

Handling Complex Coverage Issues for Legal Professionals

When an attorney becomes disabled, he or she may have more than one insurance policy in effect. Our lawyers know how different plans work together and will ensure that you are taking the right steps to collect the benefits you are entitled to under all your insurance policies. We are also very familiar with the tactics many insurance companies use to limit the payout of benefits, particularly under own-occupation policies. In these situations, we coordinate with our client’s physicians to provide the medical documentation needed to demonstrate that our client is disabled pursuant to the specific terms of the policy.

An additional issue frequently faces attorneys when they carry specialty specific occupation coverage – you’re a trial attorney insured against the loss of your profession and an insurer is denying your claim stating that you can do transactional legal work.

The insurance lawyers at our Chicago-based firm are experienced in careful evaluation of their own occupation definitions and the hurdles present for payment of claims and how best to present those claims for payment of benefits.

As fellow legal professionals, we appreciate that privacy is of utmost concern to our lawyer clients. Regardless of whether you are dealing with a physical, mental or cognitive impairment, our firm will go above and beyond to protect the confidentiality of your health information.  Because your condition may improve in the future, we understand just how important it is to take the right steps today to preserve your professional reputation. This means that when you are filing a claim for benefits, you can rest assured that we will do everything we can to avoid litigation so that your private information is not released to the public.