Sheeley Law LLC

The reason I am writing this review is because I was in a car accident.After receiving physical therapy for 3 months, the therapist ended my treatment informing me that I was healed (which also coincidentally was the same time when my medical benefit on my car insurance ran out), when in fact I was still very much in pain.My bills were starting to add up and I felt like I needed representation.My husband was seeing a chiropractor at the time for separate issues, and the chiropractor had recommended that I see Ann Sheeley for representation.Ann was initially very personable, she promised to deal with my medical providers on my behalf, negotiate down my medical bill repayments, and obtain the best possible settlement from the other party’s insurance agent.She told me to send all bills directly to her office, and she would contact them and let know this was part of a settlement, to avoid receiving any collection notices.She told me I should worry about getting well and she would take care of the rest.During my initial meeting discussing my medical condition and state of discomfort, she recommended that I see a chiropractor, and just happened to recommend the same chiropractor that had recommended me to see her. This is important to note that she advised me to not use my personal health insurance plan during my 3 month treatment plan. As my treatment progressed however, I continued to receive medical bills and collection notices from medical providers (after I had submitted them to her office). After following up with them multiple times, it was clear that her office did not put the liens that she promised.When we received the first settlement proposal statement, it was very confusing and the numbers didn’t make any sense. It turned out there were multiple errors regarding payments to the medical providers, the amounts payable to the medical providers did not agree with my actual bills, and none of the medical bills had been negotiated as promised. After an hour and half office visit she promised to negotiate my medical bills.She contacted me a few days later only to have not taken care of all of my bills. This is when she got very nasty with me on the phone.I noted that it was odd that when I requested to negotiate down my medical bills, she became very defensive about negotiating the chiropractor’s bills over anybody else.She spent very little of her time actually listening and more time talking over me.We went back and forth for nearly a month negotiating the final sums owed to my providers.Nothing about the whole process was simple, or made easy for me.I spent hours speaking to my personal health insurance company, and to my medical providers.This is when I learned that the advice Ann Sheeley had given me was poor. According to my health insurance adjuster, a provider is obligated to file a claim with the health insurance, which would have resulted in a lower, automatically negotiated payment amount.Since Ann advised me not to use my health insurance, it resulted in my owing much more to my medical providers (but particularly to my chiropractor) than I should have been.Upon my realization of this injustice, I felt terribly sickened that I had been taken advantage of and at that point I just wanted the ordeal to be over.The only positive statement that I can make is that when further errors were uncovered on the settlement statement, which resulted in additional payment to my health insurance company, she was honorable enough to take it out of her fee instead of my amount.nWhen I finally agreed to sign the settlement statement, I was relieved to finally put this behind me. However 5 weeks later, I continued to receive another collection from a medical provider.Upon following up, I discovered that Ann had promptly paid the chiropractor’s bill after receiving the settlement, but had not paid any of the other medical bills.She finally paid all of the other bills after I contacted her office several times that week.nMy advice record all phone message and or conversations thankfully I have this.