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My fiance passed away weeks ago I am the beneficiary in his life insurance policy but because he passed away before 2 years was up it went to claims he has no will and nothing illegal saying that I get anything but now I am having trouble getting one of the doctors offices to release his medical records to the life insurance they say I have to have a legal document to allow this and now I'm finding out because we were not married I cannot do that
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I'm sorry to hear of his passing. I have a close friend who went through this very problem. did you have power of attrorney of any kind for your fiancee? Perhaps that would be accepted by the physician. Short of that, you might have to petition to be appointed as the personal representative of his estate in order to obtain the legal authority to authorize the release of his records. If there's enough in insurance benefits at stake, the cost and expense of opening an estate is probably worth it.
Answered on Mar 21st, 2017 at 6:10 AM