At the beginning of our relationship with clients, the lay of the disability landscape must be set out. I am sure that you have many questions and we will have questions for you, as well. It is vital to our successful attorney-client relationship that there is a thorough understanding of the issues affecting your claim in particular.
What are the details of your case?
As a Cocoa Beach disability insurance attorney, we will want to know the particulars such as which insurance carrier is involved, your medical conditions, what kind of treatments you have undergone, whether you have applied for Social Security Disability (depending on how long you have been out of work), your date of birth, and other demographical information.
Will your doctors cooperate?
A question that we routinely ask during the course of one of the initial conferences we will have is to what degree your physicians are willing to cooperate with you and/or our office to help
establish the medical disability preventing you from doing work. Oftentimes, we find that treating physicians are unwilling to cooperate with our clients in completing paperwork. This does not mean that the physician does not believe in the client’s inability to do work; most often, it just means that the physician prefers to keep their medical practice over treating patients alone.
While a treating physician who is unwilling to help prove your claim can be frustrating, it is better to know this information from the start so that we can take steps to mitigate this issue before it does any damage to your claim. Depending on whether the physician in question treats your primary disabling condition, you may begin to seek treatment with another specialist willing to complete forms and the like. However, this is uncommon and we prefer to let the medical treatment you need remain unencumbered by your Short or Long Term Disability claim. More commonly, we may ask you to undergo an Independent Medical Evaluation by a third-party physician who would be able to render opinions regarding your functionality.
Have you already made an appeal?
Another common question we have for potential clients regards the time frames involved in the claim. Where you are in the life of your claim is vitally important to the next required steps necessary to make your claim, appeal your claim or litigate your claim in a court of law. The number of appeals you have made previously affects whether your ability to appeal has been exhausted. Timing questions will most usually need to be answered at the outset of our attorney-client relationship.
We work to pinpoint the exact issues which are preventing you from receiving this supplemental income during the time you are unable to work. Most of the questions we have for you and that you may have for us will answer the main question of what work needs to be done in order to get you back on a claim for your Short or Long Term Disability benefits. If you have additional questions or would like to discuss the details of your case with an experienced Cocoa Beach disability insurance attorney, contact us today.
