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(what is a lien?)
Hi this is Chuck Boyk. An issue that is very important nowadays in handling personal
injury case
are liens. What's a lien? A lien is basically
money that you're going to owe out of the settlement of your case.
There's all sorts of different liens. If you have health insurance
there's a health insurance lien which would represent the medical bills
paid by the health insurance to your medical providers.
If you're on medicaid there's a medicaid lien.
If you are on social security disability or you're over 65, there is often a
medicare lien. There's specific liens from
unpaid medical bills for medical providers. One thing that we do in order
to maximize recovery in
your case is at no additional charge we will negotiate the liens down.
What's that mean in English? For example, if you have a health insurance lien
of twenty five thousand dollars we don't necessarily wanna pay twenty-five thousand
dollars.
So oftentimes we can be successful cutting that lien
25 to 50 percent. So in order to maximize
your recovery we can do it in two ways. One
by getting you more money on the case which we are certainly going to try and do
or second of all to cut down
reduce the amount of money that you're going to have to pay back
out of your settlement and this is something that we do on a daily basis
In order to try to get you the most money in your pocket.