Month: October 2025

Last week I broke the story that ICBC was mass firing most of their in house bodily injury claims lawyers.  ICBC confirmed in a reply tweet this indeed was the case.

This week I learned that the cuts were going far beyond in house lawyers but also extending to the private practice firms ICBC contracts with.  ICBC has contracts with dozens of firms throughout British Columbia who conduct personal injury defense on behalf of the insurance monopoly.  Most of those firms are in the process of losing their contracts.  These contracts are being consolidated to a handful of “chosen” firms in Vancouver and a few beyond.  Others are losing this line of work.  I imagine there will be a level of disarray this creates for the existing injury files being transferred from lawyers who have been handling them for years to new counsel with an influx of many new (albeit mature) claims.

ICBC confirmed this defense firm culling in the below twitter exchange which speaks for itself.

Hi Erik, as we transition towards the Enhanced Care model, we’re reducing both internal and external legal resources to align with the declining number of files. This includes consolidating the number of law firms we work with across the province. ^YC

— ICBC (@icbc) October 10, 2025

Earlier this week an anonymous source told me that ICBC was in the process of firing most of their in house personal injury defense lawyers.  I had not seen any public confirmation of this so reached out to ICBC directly via social media.

The insurance monopolist confirmed in a reply tweet that they are, indeed, “winding down” this in house legal claims team.

Here is the short exchange that speaks for itself.

Hi Erik, since the launch of Enhanced Care in May 2021 the number of tort-based files has decreased to a point where it no longer supports a full, in-house legal claims team. As a result, we have begun the process of winding down that team. ^ap

— ICBC (@icbc) October 1, 2025