This five-page piece is co-authored by Robert Lewis, president of ISO Claims Partners, and Nathan Huber, chief business development officer at Premonition Analytics. It focuses on workers' compensation and liability claims, which the authors argue can become far more unpredictable and costly once they move into litigation.
The authors cite figures suggesting claims involving attorneys run nearly eight times costlier than claims without attorney involvement, and that legal defense can account for roughly 14 percent of a workers' comp loss. Those numbers frame their central argument: that leaving litigation strategy to chance, by simply hiring "a good attorney and hoping for the best," is a costly way to manage claims risk.
In place of that gamble, the report advocates a more deliberate, data-informed approach to selecting counsel and managing claims once litigation begins.
