CANCER LEGAL CARE

At Cancer Legal Care, www.CancerLegalCare.org, we know that the financial and legal issues a cancer patient faces can be as devastating as the cancer diagnosis itself. Our mission is to engage the law to resolve the complex challenges facing people and communities affected by cancer. We do this by providing free legal care and education to Minnesotans affected by cancer, for the legal issues they face that directly impact their health and quality of life. Since 2007, our staff and volunteer attorneys have provided free direct legal care services and educational outreach valued at over $15,500,000. We have helped over 11,000 Minnesotans with legal issues stemming from their cancer diagnosis and treatment—the disability, employment, estate planning, financial, and insurance issues that weigh so heavily on their hearts and minds. We provide this help through our Legal Care Program, which includes our ICARE Program (Insurance Claim Advocacy and Resolution), and our Foreclosure Prevention Program (2017-2021). Cancer Legal Care’s unique model utilizes staff and volunteer attorneys to serve people affected by any cancer, at any time from diagnosis on, residing anywhere in the state, on a wide variety of civil legal issues. Increasingly, cancer’s financial toxicity negatively affects patients' survivorship. Legal care is one way to help turn those situations around for clients at a challenging time in their lives.

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