Infographic: How To Make Your Claim Process Less Stressful
For many of our clients, the journey they’ve taken to find us has often been the worst time in their lives. We know that dealing with an illness coupled with trying to get adequate care from an insurance company through the claim process can be an overwhelming and harrowing experience.
How are you supposed to know what an IME is, and how it affects your claim? When you get sick, the furthest thing from your mind is how a pre-existing condition might affect your claim. You’re dealing with an issue that’s bound to affect you emotionally and physically, and on top of that, you have the deal with your disability claim.
That’s where Share Lawyers can help. We want to work with you to ensure you get the benefits you deserve.
Self-Care Is Important Through The Claim Process
It’s important that while this claim process is going on, to take care of yourself. Not just following your healthcare professional’s advice, but to find something which gives you a sense of calm and relief.
Misha's Story
Finding the right way to manage your stress is an essential part of the healing process. One of our clients, Misha, first came to our office feeling completely stressed, alone, and in over her head.
After experiencing dizziness, fatigue, vomiting, and diarrhea, Misha was finally diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. She had mostly been healthy leading up to this diagnosis, and getting a life-changing diagnosis at the age of 28 was a very dramatic shift. Misha worked at a major bank in downtown Calgary, and when she applied for short-term benefits her claim was denied on the basis that she was not sick enough to leave work.
Claim Denied
She couldn’t believe it. Could she really be denied? What was she going to do? Her stomach pains were so bad some days that she could hardly move. What if she just had to quit? What was she supposed to do with no income and being unable to work? She was overwhelmed by all these questions and the lack of support.
Misha scoured the internet searching for information about how she might be able to get help. At first she was skeptical about hiring a law firm to help her, but after reading experiences of past clients of Share Lawyers, she setup a free telephone consultation.
Share Lawyers Helped
Share Lawyers was were able to answer a lot of Misha’s concerns and guide her through the process.
Misha’s been feeling more confident about her options since the meeting. There are times; however, she still feels stressed about what her future is going to look like.
She started to take up meditation and yoga as a way to manage her stress, and it’s really been a help,. Yoga releases a lot of tension for me,” she admitted.
Finding an activity like yoga, meditation, swimming, hiking, stretching, or walking can all be beneficial during times of high stress such as going through the claim process.
Misha looks forward to finding more ways to manage and treat her new diagnosis, as well managing her stress, while Share Lawyers works to get the benefits she deserves.
Has your long-term disability claim been denied? Contact Share Lawyers and put our experience to work for you. We offer free consultations and there are no fees unless we win your case. Find out if you have a disability case.
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A note from our long term disability lawyers
Taking a medical leave from work is not an easy decision to make. Concerns about providing for yourself and your family and keeping your job may cause you to want to push through your pain, but this won’t make your problems go away. Stopping work is often the smartest decision for your long term health and well-being, and your disability benefits are there to provide you with financial support until you can return to work.
If you have made the tough decision to stop working and apply for your short term disability or long term disability benefits, you may feel overwhelmed by the process and have questions that your employer and your insurance company are not able or willing to answer. Share is There to see you through and answer your questions.
Our Disability law firm knows what you have been going through
We understand that things have not been easy for you over the last little while. Your health has been suffering, you are unable to work, and now your insurance company, who was supposed to be there in your time of need, has decided they will not pay your disability benefits or respect your disability claim. These benefits exist to provide you with the financial support you need so that you can focus on your health and rebuilding your life. It is unfortunate that your insurance company has not lived up to its promise. If your disability claim has been denied, we will fight to get you the benefits you are entitled to. Our disability lawyers have helped thousands of Canadians get their long term disability benefits over the past 35 years, and we can help you too.
Our experienced disability lawyers can fight back on your behalf
Share Lawyers believes that every client who is dealing with a disability claim deserves superior personal service. To achieve that goal, we have developed our team of experienced, compassionate, and caring long term disability lawyers, law clerks, and administrative staff to meet all of your needs. Our team of experienced long term disability, life insurance, employment, and critical illness insurance lawyers have made successful claims against many insurance companies, third-party administrators and employers.
If you are unable to work, your disability benefits should be there to provide you with the financial support you need. While your insurance company may be focused on finding ways to avoid paying your claim, our focus is on what is in your best interest. When Share Lawyers gets involved, you have an entire team of lawyers that are there to support you and to fight for what is yours.
Our disability claim lawyers fight for your disability insurance claim by relying on our many years of experience to apply the best strategic planning and approach in each case, using the latest technology available. Experience matters, and with Share Lawyers, you are in the best hands with 35 years of success on your side.
In this video, we explain the role of a long term disability lawyer and how we can support you when you have been denied your long term disability benefits.
