J. Price McNamara

A Note from Attorney Price McNamara

Losing my own brother, then my father and sister after long, disabling illnesses just a few months apart drove a career change for me. Before that experience, I never truly understood the place you’re in. I never understood the dramatic impact that receiving (or not receiving) the disability and life insurance benefits you paid for and counted on can have on your life especially when you need to focus on family and healing. What I experienced with my own family now drives the way I view my clients and my work, and I will never forget it!

Our Specialty: ERISA is ALL We Do!

We help you recover your denied ERISA insurance benefits because they belong to you!

100 % Focused: Our practice is only ERISA long- and short-term disability, accidental death / dismemberment, and life insurance claim denials. We DO NOT handle any other types of cases. 

Never Overloaded: We intentionally limit the number of cases we handle at a given time for the benefit of sanity and simplicity. This results in efficiency and expertise despite the ever-changing, complex area of ERISA law. It also translates into better results with superior client communication and satisfaction.  

Our tight-knit team has our clients’ and each other’s backs according to our Mission and Core Values listed below. We find this works best for our clients and ourselves.

Our Story

From “Big Law” Insurance Company Attorney to Fighting for Justice 

for Victims of Unfair Claim Denials

Why I Quit “Big Law” And Representing Insurance Companies

It was an exciting “big deal” following law school to get an offer to work for a “Big Law” firm representing big national insurance companies. Newly married and starting a family, I accepted the offer. 

Over the next several years I learned their behind-the-scenes tactics to deny and underpay claims. But I also learned that the insurance companies also took advantage of good deserving claimants, trying to pay them nothing or much less than they deserved when they really needed it. 

I ultimately decided to use what I learned from representing insurance companies at Big Law to instead fight for deserving claimants, actual people, and families, against the Goliath insurance companies to recover wrongfully denied insurance benefits. That has been life-changing. I love helping the people I help! 

Working Directly for Insurance Companies Prepared Me Better Than Anything Else to Guide Wrongful Claim Denial Victims to Justice

When I first quit Big Law, I thought I had “wasted” several years of my career path, but everything happens for a reason. Soon I realized that NOTHING has been more helpful to me for representing my clients than the experience of representing national insurance companies.

I can easily predict the insurance companies’ strategies and next moves in each case, frustrate their plans, and stay one step ahead of them to win my clients’ claim battles. 

Our Practice Areas

Short Term Disability │Long Term Disability │Accidental Death & Dismemberment │Life Insurance

After leaving “Big Law” national insurance company representation, I started handling more ERISA-regulated long- and short-term disability, accidental death / dismemberment, and life insurance recovery claims for wrongfully denied clients. It became my belief that this area of law is so obscure, complex, and constantly changing that I should either limit my practice to these claims alone, or not handle ERISA claim denials at all. No more “dabbling” in ERISA law.

I decided to go “all in” on ERISA cases, and “all out” of all other practice areas. Now, every day, ERISA is all we do and I wake up grateful that this is what I do.

Core Values

We live by two sets of core values here – our Client Centered Core Values and our Office Culture Core Values. One set compliments the other. Our core values have been key to building and preserving a one-of-a-kind workplace and never losing sight of what our work means for our clients who count on us.

Client Centered Core Values

We know you’re dealing with the uncertainty, worry, anxiety and financial pressure of a claim denial. We never forget that. We know we can’t eliminate these uncomfortable feelings completely, but our Client Centered Core Values will minimize them as you unload the burden of your claim to us to execute our process. We live by these values without exception, as they drive our delivery of your best experience. 

1. ERISA is ALL We Do: 

We made a big decision due to the complexity of ERISA law. We are an all in, 100% ERISA law practice.

2. We are Transparent:

You’ve entrusted us with a case critical to your livelihood. Your peace of mind is key, but impossible if you’re left guessing. You will never wonder “What’s going on with my case?” You’ll see our work in progress, real-time, from beginning to end, without having to ask.

3. We Guide and Educate: 

Client peace of mind depends not only on knowing what we are doing now and will do next, but exactly why as well. We explain this in detail as we go, and when you have a question, you get a prompt and thorough answer. Uncertainty leads to unnecessary worry and anxiety, and we won’t have that.

4. We are Boldly Honest: 

We tell you the good, the bad and the ugly. You need to know the truth about the strengths and weaknesses of your claim from the beginning to end. That’s exactly what you’ll get.

5. We are Efficient: 

Efficiency means speed while maintaining the best possible claim building quality for the best possible outcome. A client’s (and family’s) financial security is at stake and will be pursued as aggressively as we would our own. Unnecessary delay is unacceptable.

6. We Get It: 

We are mindful of the weight of your difficult and stressful circumstances and are grateful we can help with such a worthy and important cause. This drives our passion, compassion, purpose, commitment, and work satisfaction to your benefit as well as our own.

Office Culture Core Values

Our Office Culture Core Values are how we work together, and are designed to complement and reinforce our Client Centered Core Values. They protect our one-of-a-kind purpose-driven work environment, further boosting best client experience. We live by them without exception as well.

1. Limited Caseload, Never Hectic:

Hectic has not and will not happen here. Hectic is draining, and good for neither us nor our clients. If anyone here ever feels they are even approaching having more on their plate than they can handle with excellence and a calm mind, we discuss it immediately, evaluate and remedy the problem. Our client’s Blueprint to Benefits Process and Client Centered Core Values will not be compromised by stress or overload. If the work ceases to be satisfying and enjoyable due to overload, work-product suffers, unhappiness set in, our culture becomes dysfunctional, and our clients’ experience suffers. We don’t let that happen here.

2. Drama-Free Zone:

Office drama will not happen here. We are a small group who spends almost as much time together as we do with our families. We love the challenge and impact of our hard work, and are grateful for the positive atmosphere of genuinely liking our clients and each other. We respect and appreciate each other’s unique and diverse talents and gifts as we use them to help each other, our clients and our mission. Complainers don’t fit in well here. Honest, open adult-minded communicators and solution seekers who like challenge, responsibility and a worthy cause love it here. We always have each other’s backs.

3. Always Improving:

Law and technology are ever-evolving, so we are always learning. We proactively seek cutting-edge information and methods to improve our efficiency and client results to the highest possible level.

4. Passionate Advocacy, Best Reputation:

We never sacrifice professionalism in our work product or interactions with the insurance companies we fight, the opposing attorneys, or the judges who determine our clients’ outcomes. Our most valuable strength for our clients is a professional reputation built over 30 years. The insurance companies, their attorneys and judges know we are always well-prepared, cool-headed, honest and very good at what we do. We will passionately and aggressively advocate for our clients, but never be seduced into the gutter with anyone spewing rudeness, venom or childish cheap shots. Doing so can only make us look weak and feel bad, it isn’t who we are, and it can never help our clients.