Fort Worth Underpaid Insurance Claims Attorneys

Insurance Company Strategies for Underpaying Claims

When a home, vehicle, or business is damaged by a covered cause or peril, our law firm assists clients in recovering the full spectrum of benefits that policyholders are entitled to under their insurance policy.  While insurance adjusters might seem amicable, their loyalty will be to the insurance company that signs their paycheck.  Adjusters often suggest their goal in requesting information is to facilitate prompt resolution of a claim.   While this is not necessarily untrue, the “prompt resolution” will be based on evidence selectively obtained to justify mitigating the insurance company’s liability.

The adjuster’s friendly façade might include requests that you execute documents or accept a quick settlement check.  The adjuster could ask you to sign a Release of Information to obtain records from your employer or medical records.  While the insurer might have a right to obtain some of this information through the adjustment process or discovery in a lawsuit, an experienced Fort Worth underpaid insurance claims attorney can protect your privacy and shield you from overbroad “fishing expeditions.”  For example, insurance companies might use a request for medical records to uncover information allowing the insurer to link your injuries to prior incidents.

The insurance company might even provide a quick settlement check.  However, insurance companies usually fight to mitigate their liability.  A settlement check that comes fast and easy often will be accompanied by a Release of Liability or similar document that waives a policyholder’s rights to all claims known and unknown.  This type of lowball offer (and it will be a lowball offer) is designed to get an insured to settle a valid claim for far less than its actual value before the policyholder obtains legal advice, an expert’s determination of repair costs, or a comprehensive course of medical treatment.  Our Fort Worth lowball insurance claim law

firm can evaluate your claim and ensure you do not inadvertently forfeit your rights prior to obtaining the full value of your claim.

Basis of Insurers Lowball Claims

The adjustment process often involves the use of a computer software analysis that not coincidentally tends to be very conservative on costs that a policyholder incurs and overly optimistic regarding the prognosis for a remedy.  As might be expected, the initial settlement offer stemming from this computer process will tend to be ludicrously low.  Policyholders can improve their situation by carefully documenting every dollar spent, keeping all bills, and getting an estimate from a professional contractor or engineering expert.  Our law firm carefully analyzes this documentation and works with experts to obtain reports that provide for appropriate repair or replacement remedies with an accurate estimate of our client’s losses.

If your insurance company is giving you the runaround and refuses to pay the full value of your claim, a Fort Worth underpaid insurance claims attorney can protect policyholder rights and seek the full value of your loss.  Our law firm might even pursue a claim for insurance bad faith depending on the specific circumstances.  At FH Law Group., we tenaciously pursue the maximum recovery for policyholders in Fort Worth and the surrounding areas of Tarrant County.  Contact us today for a FREE consultation at (817) 697-4400 or visit our website.