Is it just me, or do clients get 100x more intolerable around the holidays?!

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Yes. So much yes. Because they want their money for the holidays but they don't understand their want for the money has no bearing on the insurance company. They just see it as something they are entitled to so why isn't it happening on their schedule. And then follows their own opinion that they don't understand how it is defensible or why it would be defended. Or some crazy statement about the liability and why that entitles them to damages. Clients are the worst this time of year

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They want money NOW

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Fine by me, I can settle cases that *should* settle!!

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yup

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Still not as bad as when they google case values. I have a case worth maybe 250 right now on a good day and this guy because some website told him, and his commercial lit paralegal sister told him, it's worth 1.5 is now being an absolute raging psychopath

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