Posted On: April 18, 2007, 3:16 pm CDT

Posted By: Jeff

This thing is, it's not just lawyers and politicians. I've worked with retailers and brokers for 10 years now, and have never met a single one that wasn't almost completely obsessed with money. I have watched as they lie about when they recieved bind requests, lied about losses, lied about losing emails and lied about knowing material facts that they know would disqualify a risk. It's very easy to sit back and slam lawyers for being unethical ambulance chasers, but the fact is that I've met many of both, and by far, without any doubt, insurance sales professionals like retailers and brokers are generally much less scrupulous and much more dishonest than lawyers.

Lawyers go through long expensive schooling and yes, many are ultra competitive, and yes, there are those that come up with "creative" ways to bill, but that is certainly not the norm as everyone thinks. My brother is a lawyer, and I know many others that he works with and went to school with, and they would not risk being disbarred to bill a few extra hours. Lawyers can be disbarred for many things and believe me, it's on the front of all their minds before they do anything.