From "Good Hands" to Boxing Gloves: How Allstate Changed Casualty Insurance in America

  *Plaintiff's Only Product In 1992 Allstate started a pilot project that has changed the way insurance companies in America treat their customers, leading to record profits for the company. Since that time, 50% of the insurance industry has scrambled to incorporate these techniques. Now, two of the nation's leading experts on Allstate's claims practices divulge the change in Allstate. David Berardinelli is the bad faith lawyer who diligently worked to become the first to obtain the McKinsey Documents unprotected, and discusses them here at length. Michael Freeman, co-author of Litigating Minor Impact Soft Tissue Cases, and the nation's leading expert on injuries in minor impact collisions, discusses Allstate's MIST program. The book provides instruction for every level of trial lawyer, from those dealing with Allstate on a case-by-case basis on personal injury claims, to the most difficult bad faith and class action cases. It considers why Allstate changed from dealing with policy