Insurance Defense Attorney in San Antonio, Texas

What is your approach to handling an insurance defense matter?

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well the first thing that you have to do
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when you’re approaching a civil
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insurance defense matter is understand
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who your client is and what their needs
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are
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most of the time in insurance defense
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you get a call from an insurance company
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you might be on their approved panel
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might be the first time they’re working
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with you but you get a call or an email
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asking if you can handle a case for them
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so the first thing that you do is you
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reach out to the adjuster and you learn
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a little bit about the case and make
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some sort of preliminary assessments
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about what type of case it is what the
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case may need you do that mentally then
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the next action is to contact the client
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you don’t know what the client’s
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previous experience is going to be with
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lawsuits if it’s a company a lot of
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times they have you know a risk manager
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or another person that
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has been through it before
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but that’s not always the case and so
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reaching out to the client
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to immediately assure them that this is
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the type of work that you do you’re
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going to be able to serve them and help
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them and guide them through the lawsuit
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that’s a the way we approach the initial
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part of of any civil defense firm any
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civil defense case

San Antonio, TX commercial litigation attorney Nik Mimari shares his approach to handling an insurance defense matter.

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