For more than 70 years, The Van Winkle Law Firm has been deeply involved in insurance claims and insurance law of every sort. The team is experienced in matters relating to life insurance, casualty insurance, liability insurance, and health insurance claims and coverage. In each case Van Winkle works diligently to clarify the claims process and resolve issues in the most efficient and cost-effective way possible.

Insurance Law, Claims & Disputes - Types of Services

• Insurance coverage
• Insurance filings
• Collection of employee benefits
• Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement
• Disability filings
• Claims on uninsured losses
• Fraud investigation
• Mediation and arbitration
• Examinations under oath in claims investigations
• Valuations and appraisals of loss

Practice Highlights

• Negotiated $700,000 recovery for workers’ compensation claimant against two insurance carriers, each of whom had denied coverage of the claim.
• Successfully orchestrated dismissal of $170,000 civil penalty against allegedly uninsured closely held corporation, release of the CEO’s frozen assets, and settlement of serious personal injury claim by demonstrating the insurance carrier had inappropriately attempted to cancel its coverage.
• Successfully represented an insured in a business interruption and valuable papers loss in a statutory appraisal procedure resulting in a recovery of over $590,000.