Indemnification and inheritance
Indemnification
Personal injuries or property losses create for a claimant a need to claim for damages. Such a process is usually complex and long what often results in the situation that persons entitled to damages or compensation resign from them. Whereas professional support can be a key to success in establishing a body responsible for the occurred injury or loss and obtaining due compensation. In our team, we have lawyers dealing for years with cases related to damages for personal injuries or property losses. Our extensive experience and in-depth knowledge of the insurance industry allow us to provide competent services in the field of tort liability.
We provide legal services in the following cases:
- transport accidents with the right to damages for an injured person or his/her relatives or close friends under a third person liability insurance of the accident perpetrator,
- incidents covered by voluntary insurance agreements such as NNW, AC, property insurance, life insurance, travel insurance,
- work accidents, accidents on the way to/from work, accidents equal with work accidents, if they occurred by fault or negligence of an employer,
- random incidents, i.e. personal injuries or property losses due to e.g. stumbling or slipping on a pavement that was uneven or uncleaned from snow, car damage on a road with holes, personal injuries and property losses due to collision with wild animals, etc.
- medical malpractice,
- mesne profits.
Based on provided information and documentation we make complex analyses of legal situations, negotiate, represent our clients in common and conciliation courts, as well as in enforcement proceedings.
Having regard to a high complexity of cases referring to personal injuries or property losses and in consequence a need of very extensive specialist knowledge, we cooperate with professional experts, including medical experts, transport cost estimators, property appraisers or collision investigation experts.
Our complex legal services in the field of damages and compensation law we also address to insurance companies, entrepreneurs and all business entities seeking legal aid and protection of their legitimate interest in the indemnification and court proceedings.
Inheritance
Inheritance law is a branch of civil law regulating transfer of property rights and obligations from testators to heirs (inheritance). Our lawyers provide complex services related to the inheritance law, offering their support to persons planning to dispose of its property in case of death and to persons claiming to an inheritance in both intestate and under a will succession.
We offer the following services:
- explanation of principles of intestate and under a will succession in the Polish law, consultations regarding the form of a will required for its effectiveness and its content to express in the best way testator’s will (legacy forms),
- complex services regarding acquisition, division or alienation of the inheritance,
- counselling and representation in cases related to changes of a decision confirming inheritance acquisition,
- counselling and representation in cases referring to declaring an heir unworthy,
- counselling and representation in cases referring to a disclaimer of interest, including a disclaimer after a set date or by a minor,
- counselling and representation in the proceedings on legitime and disinheritance,
- representation in the proceedings on revoking a will,
- counselling related to the liability for an inherited debt,
- tax counselling regarding inheritance,
- complex legal services for persons with a domicile address abroad, with regard to inheritance law.
"A legal counsel, providing legal aid to clients, shall act loyally and in the best interest of a client in order to protect his or her rights. Respecting a professional secrecy is a right and obligation of a legal counsel. It is a foundation of client’s trust and a guarantee of rights and freedom."
The Code of Ethics for Legal Counsels, Article 8 and 9