New Study Shows Higher Attorney Involvement to Receive Insurance Benefits

A new study from the Insurance Research Council shows more people are hiring attorneys to receive first party insurance benefits (in Washington State, this primarily includes Personal Injury Protection and Uninsured or Underinsured Motorist Coverage). The conclusion of the study, funded by the insurance industry, is that attorneys are delaying claims settlement and that the insured is ending up with less money than if they hadn’t hired an attorney.

Nonsense. Crazy. Ridiculousness.

We want you to sue us

After many years of favoring arbitration (informal, out-of-court trial) as a method of resolving coverage disputes, some insurance companies are now requiring their customers to file a lawsuit to resolve the dispute. Why would they do that, you ask? They must have realized that… they were paying too much in Read more…