Do you ever wonder if a claimant should hire an attorney or “go it alone” on an accident case? Without an attorney, a claimant has no power to force an insurance company to do anything. According to page 5 of Allstate Insurance Company’s own internal document entitled “Unrepresented Segment Training” (which was obtained in a lawsuit in Florida challenging Allstate’s unfair claims settlement practices), “represented claims settle for 2-3 times more than unrepresented claims”. If you review the rest of this pamphlet, you will see that some insurers, like Allstate, actually have training programs to teach their claims representatives how to best persuade claimants not to hire an attorney. Are you still wondering?