Some important questions that you should consider asking your disability lawyer include the following:
1) Are you licenced to practice in Ontario?
A lawyer must be called to the Ontario ‘Bar’ in order to represent residents in Ontario based litigation.
2) Do you have a practice that consists mostly or exclusively in disability and employment?
When choosing a disability lawyer to help fight your case, it is important to ensure that the lawyer you choose has lots of experience with disability claims and focuses specifically on short and long term disability claims. It would be silly to have a doctor that does mostly back surgery perform your knee surgery, so why not hire a lawyer that specializes in disability claims to help you.
3) Can you help protect my employment (or help if my employer terminates me while I’m on long-term disability) while you are helping with my disability claim?
Yes, another consideration when speaking with a prospective disability lawyer is if they can also assist you with your employment.
The Disability Lawyers at Kadish Law have experience with both denied disability claims, as well as employment. We work hard to protect your employment while we fight for your disability insurance benefits. If you have been terminated while on long term disability, we fight for your severance package.
This comes with a number of benefits including reduced stress, knowing your lawyer can help you with both matters. The benefit of not having to deal with multiple law firms. Finally, an important advantage to having a disability and employment lawyer is that they can ensure that when these 2 issues overlap you can maximize your recovery in terms of deductions or tax treatment of the insurance disability benefits and severance and how the two payments can impact each other.
Call Kadish Law today to speak to an experienced disability and employment lawyer to discuss your case.