When your own insurance company betrays you, we hold them accountable.
Why this claim needs focused review
These cases often turn on proof control, defense pressure points, and documented outcomes.
Primary exposure
Insurance Bad Faith
High-stakes liability, damages, and trial-pressure work.
Immediate proof
Evidence preservation
Records, chronology, and value framing move first.
Documented anchor
$5,000,000
Daycare Infant Death & Cover-Up
When insurance bad faith needs attorney review
A high-value case is not just a big number. It often involves life-changing harm, disputed responsibility, meaningful damages, and records that need careful review. This practice area is strongest when the harm, disputed responsibility, damages, and available records support direct attorney review.
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Denied, Delayed, Underpaid
You pay your premiums every month on time. But when disaster strikes—a storm destroys your roof or an uninsured driver hits you—your insurance company treats you like an enemy.
In Oklahoma, insurance companies have a duty of Good Faith and Fair Dealing. If they violate this duty, you can sue them not just for what they owe, but for punitive damages for their bad conduct.
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Signs of Bad Faith
Unreasonable Delay
Taking months to investigate a simple claim while you are left without a car or home repairs.
Lowball Offers
Offering $5,000 for a claim that their own adjuster valued at $20,000.
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We Sue The Big Giants
We handle bad faith claims against major carriers involving:
- Uninsured Motorist (UM) Coverage: Denying coverage for your medical bills.
- Homeowner’s Insurance: Tornado, wind, and hail damage denials.
- Commercial Liability: Refusing to defend their own insured drivers.
How We Evaluate Insurance Bad Faith Cases
We start with records, preservation needs, case value, and the proof required for the specific claim.
- We have forced carriers to pay 500% of original policy limits when coverage denials were unjustified — not by writing letters, but by filing suit and forcing discovery.
- We identify every coverage layer — umbrella, commercial, excess — that adjusters hope you never find.
- We document claim timelines, written communications, and policy terms to build patterns of delay that prove bad-faith handling under Oklahoma law.
- We prepare bad-faith cases for trial from day one. Insurance companies settle for full value when they see expert reports commissioned and depositions of their own adjusters scheduled.
- We take on carriers in both first-party (your own insurer) and third-party (the other driver's insurer) bad-faith disputes.
What the Other Side Will Argue — And How We Counter It
"We denied the claim because the act was intentional and excluded from the policy."
We challenge coverage reinterpretations after loss and have proven carriers changed their position to avoid paying valid claims. Policy language is construed in favor of the insured under Oklahoma law.
"We made a reasonable offer based on our evaluation of the damages."
We compare adjuster evaluations against independent expert valuations. When carriers lowball by ignoring future medical burden or earning-capacity loss, we prove it with records.
"The delay was due to the claimant's failure to provide documentation."
We build a complete communication timeline that shows who asked for what, when, and how many times the carrier changed requirements. Manufactured delay is a bad-faith tactic we expose in discovery.
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