What's the Best Defense Base Act Law Defense? Your attorney.
The best defense base act lawyer will tell civilian contractors you need
help fighting insurance companies from the moment you’re injured overseas.
Look at your case as if it’s a personal injury or a worker’s
compensation case…but overseas and with a powerful law providing medical care
and compensation to care for you for the rest of your life.
The Best Way to Fight a DBA Case
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| DBA Deposition w/ Attorney Brian Wiklendt |
When you’re stabilized, you may need to get surgery, rehabilitation,
prescriptions and money after being injured overseas as a civilian contractor.
You’re not alone in this. You should call your wife, your husband, your
family, your boyfriend, your girlfriend to ask them to get a Defense Base Act
Lawyer immediately to help you.
Yes, your loved ones can support you, but you’ll need a DBA lawyer to
ENSURE you’ll get the best healthcare and maximum compensation in accordance to
what the DBA law provides.
Look at your injury as a lifelong situation and consider that you may
have to go to court to get the employer or the insurance company to do what is
required of them by law. If you were hit in a car accident you would call a
personal injury lawyer.
If you were injured on a job in the U.S., you would hire a worker’s
compensation or an employment law attorney.
You were working overseas for the U.S. government: There is a lawyer to
help you with that and it’s a Defense Base Act attorney.
How Do Defense Base Act Cases Work?
Your injury while working case may become a fight, or it may be settled
out of court, or you
may not have a case because you feel like you don’t need
anything at all. Maybe the insurance company was wonderful and kind and
helpful.
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| Insurers fight: Garfinkel Schwartz makes it a fair fight. |
But at some point, they will deny a claim. They have the right to cut
your check in half. They can ask you to be evaluated for a job they feel that
you are qualified to work. Then, you’ll open your check and find that because
of that job, you are getting less compensation. And it’s all legal.
You can fight and argue every step of the way, but unless you know and
comprehend the Defense Base Act law, you will not win against the insurance
companies and your employer.
Choose the DBA Lawyer You're Comfortable With
By having a top defense base act lawyer, you’ll know the answers to all
the questions you have. You won’t second-guess your situation and you won’t
have to wonder about “what ifs.”
Work with an attorney you are comfortable with. Ask him or her
questions, find out what they would do to defend you? What is their experience
in Defense Base Act law, you’ll be alone against one of the most powerful
industries in the world: Insurance companies.
Have any of the below happened to you?:
- Hurt your back in an accident
- Got blown up in an IED
- Are suffering from Traumatic Brain Injury
- Took enemy fire in a hot zone
- Injured your back, legs, arms lifting supplies
- Are trying to live your life with PTSD
- After the Injury or Illness
You may need lifelong, ongoing medical care and financial support
provided by the Defense Base Act.
Yes, the benefits are there and you have to prove to a huge, savvy and
aggressive insurance company that you deserve medical and financial benefits.
It’s easy to believe that when you’re in the hospital in LandstuhlGermany or Kuwait or Dubai that the insurance representatives are on the spot
to take care of you.
Insurers Have One Agenda
But, don’t fall for it. The insurance company rep smiling across from
you in your hospital room sees dollar signs: his or her agenda is to save the
company money.
Every procedure, every doctor, every medicine, everything in your
hospital room is costing the insurance company money. And the rep is taking
notes on how to cut those costs!
That friendly smiling rep is probably very nice and polite. But they’re
in your room to control costs from spiraling out of control. Get them out of
there and call your lawyer.
A Defense Base Act lawyer will give you the help and support you need on
the phone and in-person. Garfinkel Schwartz can talk to you 24 hours a day and
can talk via Skype or video conference from wherever you’re based.
1-800-393-2999.
Can You Get Better on a Budget?
Insurance companies don’t make money if they’re paying high cost, top of
the line, best in the world medical and health care and benefits to you. They’ll
meet with your doctors and find out how to get you home fast as cheaply as
possible.
Is that the care that you expect?
Insurers want you well, sure. But they want your care low cost, quick
and will push their doctors to get you out of the hospital and back home or
back to work--by any means necessary.
Insurance companies receive help cutting costs by having you see their
doctors, follow their doctor’s treatment plans and with the lower cost, lower
quality, less involved medical care.
Just because a doctor saved your life, doesn’t mean that he or she is
the best doctor for your circumstance.
Just because a doctor diagnosed you with a traumatic brain injury, doesn’t
mean that doctor in Landstuhl is the best doctor to handle your TBI care and
treatment plan.
Under the Defense Base Act Law you have the right to choose your doctor
and the DBA pays for it.
Before You Go Overseas to Work
Before you go to work for a Department of Defense (DoD), U.S. Government
military base, DoD sub-contractor, talk to a lawyer and keep in touch with the
DBA attorney. This may seem like overdoing it, that you’re planning for the worst.
Expect the best and plan for the worst because it’s in your best
interest.
You’ll need a skilled DBA lawyer who knows this area of law.
You may be overwhelmed by the paper work because it’s no fun gathering
information and papers and proof that you can’t remember or recall. Try to keep
folders and papers separate and hope that you can find witnesses and co-workers
to collaborate your eye-witness accounts.
Responding to insurance company can be stressful because their requests
for an IM Independent Medical Examiner) is a full-time, all hands on deck,
resources and Garfinkel Schwartz can become your lawyer of choice to walk you
through the Defense Base Act Law legal process on every aspect of your case.
