As a small firm, we are able to provide a unique and targeted strategy for our clients.
Some people ask me if I can handle going up against the big insurance companies and the big law firms they hire. This is a fair question. I suppose the concern is that a small firm might be overwhelmed but, in fact, the truth is that I am in a better posture to overwhelm them. Let me explain.
First, I have the advantage of being paperless. This represents a big costs savings to my client because I do not have to incur copying charges but more importantly, no time is wasted having to copy endless documents in response to inquiries or request for documents in lawsuits. I preparer a cover letter and a CD with a veritable multitude of documents which I send to them, generally by return mail. Then the ball is right back in their court and they have to spend time reviewing the documents, all of which are carefully organized and summarized in a standard easily manageable form here in my office.
Now, this approach does require that I scan in every document but that is done as the documents are received so there is no great amount of time spent doing this at any one point in a case except in very few rare instances. We stay ahead of the organizational requirement necessitated by the handling of a large number of documents.
I personally took the time some number of years ago to scan in all my existing files create the organization we now use. One of the great aspects of this is that documents do not get lost. Okay, I admit it. Sometimes things get misfiled but now it only the click of a few computer keys and the document is found and properly stored.
In addition to the benefits of being paperless, there is also a streamlining of the handling because we do not have to send things through “channels.” In the insurance company, this would be getting the letter in a mail drop, then shunting it around to the right person, a claims representative who is up to his or her eyeballs in files. In a big law firm there is the same problem and then you have the two (2) or three (3) lawyers working on the file sending memoranda back and forth, having to meet and taking two (2) weeks to respond to a letter it takes me about 15 minutes to handle. The fact is in a small firm, I keep the pressure on them.
Finally, there is, to us, the most important fact- here, everyone knows your name. I had a new client call the office recently who tried to introduce himself to my assistant who immediately told him she knew who he was and what we were doing on his case. We are concerned about you. We do not even have file numbers because every one of our clients is a real, live person about whom we care not only as a client with a legal problem but as a person living a life, just like all of us.
So, yes we can handle your claim successfully and we can do it more efficiently and more personally.
Please keep in mind that the foregoing is not intended as legal advice applicable to any individual person’s unique legal situation. Its sole purpose is to give a general idea of the existing status of the law as it applies to the point of law addressed above. You cannot rely on the foregoing as legal advice. You cannot make legal decisions based on its contents. If you have questions arising out of this point of law, you should contact an attorney who routinely handles claims involving policies of disability insurance. The law offices of Herbert M. Hill, P.A. handles such cases and would welcome the opportunity to discuss your case with you, at no charge. You can contact me at 407-839-0005 or at hmh@herbertmhill.com.
If you would like, after discussing your case, we can set a conference. That conference would be free of charge and you would be under no obligation to hire me nor would you feel any pressure from me to do so.
Herbert M. Hill, P.A. is a law firm located in Orlando, Florida with a practice extending throughout the state of Florida and the southeastern part of the United States, including Georgia and Alabama. Areas of practice include disability and employee benefit claims of all sorts. The small firm handles any claims arising under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (known and referred to as “ERISA”) for disability benefits, medical benefits, retirement benefits of any sort, including pension, 401k, termination agreements or the like as well as claims arising under private disability policies.
