Can Someone please advise?

[Jaime Musselman]

My sister who was 76 years old had blood clot complications from a car accident and was in the hospital for a month before she passed. The hospital placed her medical bills as a lien against her estate for $726,000. She has 3 grandchildren (1) with special needs, and this will wipe out her entire estate. I paid an attorney $10,000 already and he only negotiate the debt down to $626,000, and now wants more money. I am sick about this.

[Chris Davidson]

@Jaime Musselman I am sorry for your loss, and hate you are having to go through this. First thought is from a car accident insurance should pick up some of the bill. However if the remaining is 726k, and the attorney was able to drop it 100k for 10k I would go back to him and see what he thinks about the chances of this being reduced to an amount the estate can cover. I would also get a second or third opinion from a couple different firms.

As bad is it is the debt will be removed with the estate even if it can't cover the entirety. However that is worse case scenario. With out knowing the details that the lawyer does it will be hard to give advice other than seek more help and get a couple opinions as this is not a small matter.