Insurance Claim Archives - Henry Carus + Associates Henry Carus + Associates is a team of personal injury lawyers in Melbourne, VIC. Enquire now for your TAC claim, accident or personal injury claim. Thu, 19 Aug 2021 21:57:36 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://hcalawyers.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Frame-1-150x150.png Insurance Claim Archives - Henry Carus + Associates 32 32 Xin Yuan Huang https://hcalawyers.com.au/stories/xinyuan-huang/ Sun, 06 May 2018 13:01:47 +0000 https://staging.hcalawyers.com.au/?post_type=stories&p=91434 Ms Xin Yuan Huang’s late husband unfortunately died due to lung cancer. He had a life insurance policy with an […]

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Ms Xin Yuan Huang’s late husband unfortunately died due to lung cancer. He had a life insurance policy with an insurer, and when our client made a claim for such to be honoured the insurer voided the policy on the ground that our client’s late husband was fraudulent in his application as he did not disclose a pre-existing respiratory condition. The policy was created by a cold call to the client by a company hired to “market” the product for the insurer, and whatever information needed to obtain the policy was obtained in that call. Our client felt aggrieved that an insurance company could act in such a fashion when she needed support the most and came to us after being referred by a friend. We looked at the documents she provided to our office and requested the insurer’s file for our review. After taking some time to review the file we believed the our client had good legal ground to proceed with her claim against the insurer for it to honour the contract. Legal proceedings were issued and the matter proceeded with the relevant Court steps. During the litigating process we came to learn that the cold call telephone conversation was recorded, and a copy of the recorded conversation was given our office. On listening to the conversation it was clear that our client’s husband made a valiant effort to answer all the questions honestly, and the policy was essentially “sold” onto him. There was no basis to say he had tried to obtain the policy by any form of deception.The insurer tried hard in its negotiations to give our client less than what she was entitled to under the policy, but we were prepared to go to court for her and in the end the insurer paid out the policy amount along with interest as well as some of our client’s legal costs.

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