Our Experienced Life Insurance Claim Denial Attorneys Stand By Ready to Help You
EXPERIENCED
Our life insurance attorneys have negotiated or litigated many different life insurance denial cases against major insurance companies.
STRATEGIC
Our team of attorneys are experienced at handling the complex litigation of life insurance cases.
COMMITTED
Our lawyer-to-case ratio is extremely high, assuring the degree of personal attention and thoroughness for which our firm is known.
If you have filed a life insurance claim and have been denied, or think you might be denied, we may be able to help you. The life insurance claims attorneys at Trief & Olk are experienced in life insurance law, terminology, applications, and practices. We will represent you aggressively in negotiations with your life insurance company and if they don’t agree to pay the benefits to which you are entitled, we will take them to court to prove your claim.
Ted Trief received his J.D. from Rutgers University Law School, graduating with honors in 1976. He received his B.A. in 1973 from State University of New York at New Paltz. He is a former Assistant D.A.
Barbara Olk graduated from New York University Law School with a J.D. degree in June of 1976. Ms. Olk completed her B.A. degree in English and Political Science at the University of Rochester in 1973, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Shelly L. Friedland, who joined Trief & Olk in 2014 and became a partner in 2016, graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, and received her B.A. in economics from Columbia University, graduating summa cum laude.
Stan Gutgarts received his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law in 2011, where he was a recipient of a full-tuition scholarship. Mr. Gutgarts is admitted to the New York and New Jersey Bars, as well as before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of New York, and the District Court of New Jersey.
