Miller Friel 2015 Anniversary Newsletter
Miller Friel was founded with the bold ambition of becoming the
premier insurance recovery law firm in the nation. The idea emerged
at a time when the Nation was in the midst of a serious depression.
General Motors and Chrysler had filed for bankruptcy. Occupy Wall
Street protestors were everywhere. Despite these distractions, we
realized that something else was wrong. Like the economy, the
state-of-the-art model for delivering insurance recovery legal work
was broken.
The highest quality lawyers were practicing at the Nation's
premier law firms, and those premier law firms were beholden to the
insurance industry by virtue of the fact that a large amount of
complex commercial litigation is funded by insurers. When it came
to insurance issues, insurance recovery lawyers at the larger firms
simply were finding it exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to
zealously represent corporate policyholder interests. In some
cases,
