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ICBC Confirms Culling of “External” Legal Firms They Work With

Written by ERIK MAGRAKEN on . Posted in Uncategorized.

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.