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You are also given helpful information about settling your ICBC claim; law firms that are doing ICBC defense work and commonly used ICBC defense tactics.

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What Law Firm is Doing ICBC's Work

Each year ICBC releases financial information. One of the printouts that are of much interest is called “The Amount Paid to Suppliers for Goods and Services”. Basically, that document shows how much ICBC is paying various companies or individuals such as their defense lawyers each year.

The numbers underestimate the amount of defense work a particular law firm does because the numbers do not include work for other insurance companies. Therefore, when you look at the below chart, the numbers represent the minimum amount of defense work that a particular law firm does in any one year:

Law Firm 2002 $$ 2003 $$ 2004 $$ 2005 $$
Aikenhead Moscovich Jones 703,350 359,562 839,570 671,255
Alexander Holburn 2,744,436 3,529,260 3,759,070 3,791,877
Baker Newby 3,066,277 3,250,587 3,604,225 2,877,508
Bradbrooke Crawford 919,381 817,979 886,247 793,254
Brown Benson 1,152,188 1,304,282 1,353,234 1,572,813
Campbell Learn Zenk 781,904 885,466 880,007 760,736
Cassady & Company 689,646 864,215 878,630 851,337
Davidson & Co. 845,952 863,615 844,822 842,155
Dickson Murray 610,292 699,575 559,246 679,200
Doak Shirreff 1,093,711 762,405 850,158 589,115
Dumoulin Boskovich 559,931 773,795 966,921 1,107,941
Fritz Lali 960,471 610,133 583,978 836,103
Faskin Martineau 2,252,222 1,032,709 1,462,278 1,553,388
Graham & Frame 588,699 797,110 792,825 870,691
Grant Kovaks Norell 1,051,951 1,030,295 1,574,088 1,837,736
Harris & Braun 1,919,938 2,304,588 2,732,878 2,303,116
Harper Grey 704,315 841,372 1,308,005 779,970
Hartshorne Mehl 1,676,523 1,941,469 2,732,878 2,443,636
Kane Shannon & Weiler 3,580,550 4,044,292 4,519,273 4,845,756
Lindsay Kenney 3,259,204 4,222,885 5,281,498 2,206,218
John Marquart 697,584 646,659 761,191 850,441
McQuarrie Hunter 2,002,173 1,911,685 2,175,641 2,083,199
Murchison Thomson & Clarke 535,291 597,510 617,591 822,637
Paine Edmonds 747,389 1,033,557 1,182,208 1,229,735
Robertson Down & Mullally 1,386,606 1,863,852 2,289,711 2,416,901
Singleton Urquart 1,046,522 1,409,390 1,645,430 1,04,692
Somers & Co 1,083,012 1,232,893 1,839,774 2,465,259
Stewart & Co 3,172,354 3,267,998 3,409,796 3,744,904
Webster Hudson & Akerly 1,073,348 1,144,560 1,284,105 1,514,258
Young Noble 475,586 1,295,517 1,648,071 1,998,755

If you are planning on hiring a lawyer for you to fight ICBC check out if he/she works at one of the above defense firms. The big advantage of hiring a lawyer from one of the defense firms is that there is a lot of knowledge about ICBC's internal workings kicking around the office. Also, at some of the defense firms certain lawyers only do plaintiff work and not ICBC work.

The obvious disadvantage is there may be a potential conflict. For example, any law firm that does ICBC defense work cannot sue ICBC for bad faith when ICBC's actions are inappropriate. This is because the defense firms have a contract with ICBC not to do so. Therefore, if your lawyer is from one of the defense firms, you may not get him/her taking the very difficult positions against ICBC.

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