A legal regime provides fully covered services for many of the most common personal legal matters, as well as advice and guidance on an unlimited number of personal legal matters. Give your employees easy access to legal advice for these important moments in life. A legal plan can help you at any stage of life, at no cost to you. Our nationwide network of over 18,000 pre-qualified and experienced lawyers means your employees have a lawyer in their area to assist them in their legal affairs. This service is tailored to your needs, so our network of lawyers is available in person, by phone, email and online, so you can easily communicate with a lawyer or plan your next step. MetLife Legal Plans makes it easy for you to get the legal help you can take advantage of by offering the following: Help cover the cost of a range of legal issues with a legal plan and access experienced lawyers to help you plan your estate and more. Signing up for a legal plan is like having a lawyer by your side. If you use a network lawyer for the services covered, all attorneys` fees will be covered by the legal plan. Payments for the plan are made through practical payroll deductions.
2 MetLife survey of legal plan sponsors conducted in 2017. 80% of employers said that one of the main benefits of a legal regime is access to above-average legal services.1 If you are thinking about subscribing to the legal regime offered by your employer, visit our information centre. Your human resources or benefits department can provide you with an access code that you can use to log in. MetLife Legal Plans offers a range of plan options, including customized legal plans for employers with more than 3,000 eligible employees. The legal plan offers a consulting advantage for most personal legal matters. In addition, many personal legal issues are fully covered. For a list of services fully covered in your company`s legal plan, please register or call the Customer Service Centre at 800-821-6400. The following questions are excluded from all plans: We select lawyers from our network based on location to ensure that our clients have a lawyer and our lawyers have a client. In fact, 99% of our lawyers work with members each year. This ensures that if you want work, you have it. For approximately $20 per month, our statutory benefits program offers value, convenience and confidence by providing you with easy and cost-effective access to lawyers for a variety of personal legal services, including advice and guidance on an unlimited number of personal legal matters. MetLife Legal Plans gives you access to expert legal assistance to help you safely navigate life`s highlights.
A legal plan can help if you: My spouse and I have decided it`s time to do our estate planning. Our lawyer in San Francisco made the process easier. He listened to us what we wanted and gave us great recommendations on how best to plan for the future. He explained in plain language all the documents we signed. We recommend it for estate planning. “Fully covered” means that all attorney services related to the covered matter are paid for by the legal plan when you hire a network lawyer. There are no co-payments, deductibles or claim forms if you hire a network lawyer. You are also entitled to advice and guidance on matters that are not fully covered by the plan, as long as they are not excluded. (For a list of excluded questions, see the Terms of Use.) Group Legal Plans provided by MetLife Legal Plans, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. In some states, group benefit plans are provided through insurance coverage underwritten by the Metropolitan Property and Casualty Insurance Company and Affiliates, Warwick, RI. Some services are not available in all states. For more information, see your plan description.
MetLife® is a registered trademark of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York, NY. ©2020 MetLife Services and Solutions, LLC, MetLife Legal Plans, Inc., 1111 Superior Avenue, Suite 800, Cleveland, OH 44114 Employees can meet in person, discuss issues by phone or email, or perform online estate planning through our digital estate planning solution. Yes, MetLife Legal Plans encourages members to use the plan to resolve as many legal issues as possible, even if they are pre-existing issues. The only pre-existing cases that are not covered are those for which you hired a lawyer before you were eligible for plan benefits. If you are a member of the legal plan, you can quickly access the members page to see the legal coverage offered by your employer, or call our customer service centre at 800-821-6400 (8 a.m. to 8 p.m. EST, Monday to Friday). If an employee uses a network lawyer for covered services, all attorneys` fees are covered by the legal regime. Advice and guidance on an unlimited number of personal legal issues is also included.
When an employee signs up for the legal regime, he has a lawyer by his side for only a few cents a day. Payments are made easily and easily via payroll deductions. Our lawyers provide comprehensive legal assistance – from advice to the preparation or review of documents to representation before the courts, if necessary, for many legal matters. Yes, we can adjust legal regimes for groups of 3,000 or more eligible employees. Tom and Linda hadn`t given much thought to the importance of legal coverage until one of their children was involved in an unexpected accident. Our over 40 years of experience in providing legal benefits to businesses of all sizes translates into an easy advantage experience with a team you can trust. We make the legal plan an easy-to-implement benefit that is also easy to use for employees without waiting times, usage limits, co-payments or application forms. MetLife Legal Plans is the only provider that covers office consultations and telephone advice for an unlimited number of covered and uncovered personal legal matters, as long as they are not excluded. These services are provided by lawyers from the local network. MetLife Legal Plans offers employees easy-to-use and cost-effective legal services at no cost to your business. With a legal plan, you can add real value to your benefits package by giving employees access to lawyers for many common legal issues they face, from starting a family to buying a home to caring for aging parents.
Our plan covers a wide range of different legal issues and there are no restrictions on how often you can use your plan.