January 12, 2022 | By Greene Broillet & Wheeler
If your financial future has been threatened as a result of a negligent insurance broker, you may wonder whether you have the ability to recover damages through a lawsuit.
Rightly so.
Your insurance broker has a duty to provide you with effective service when helping you make decisions about your insurance options.
If your insurance broker fails to uphold his or her duty and you are harmed as a result, you may be able to sue them for damages. Read on to learn more.
Proving that an insurance broker’s negligence caused you to sustain damage to your financial future can be difficult, but it is not impossible. In fact, our team has seen success in a number of these types of cases.
There are several tools we use to help prove these types of cases, but typically, there are records that indicate an insurance broker acted negligently. Some of these records include:
However, it is also important to consider what kind of evidence the insurance broker may have against you. The broker may defend his or her case by showing what the result would have been if no mistakes were made.
It is unacceptable to have your insurance claim rejected as a result of your broker’s negligence. After all, your insurance broker has a duty to provide you with the best possible service, which includes making sure your policy includes all of the coverage you expect it to.
Don’t hesitate to reach out to our team right away if you have any questions at all. We have helped many others in similar situations and we may be able to help you too.