The Real Reason Insurance Companies Stall: Delay Is a Profitable Strategy
Most people think insurance companies delay because they are disorganized, overwhelmed, or waiting on paperwork. That is the comforting explanation. The real one is simpler and colder: delay increases profit.
A carrier does not need to deny your claim to win. They just need time to work against you. After two decades of litigating these cases, the pattern is unmistakable. Delay is engineered. Delay is intentional. Delay is valuable.
1. Injured people get tired
Pain, missed work, swelling medical bills, and endless voicemail trees wear people down. By month five, a claimant who was determined on day one is willing to settle for a fraction of fair value. Carriers count on this. Fatigue is a financial instrument.
2. Evidence weakens while you wait
A stalled case is a decaying case. Witnesses move. Phone numbers change. Dashcam footage is overwritten. When key evidence evaporates, the value of the claim drops. The carrier did not beat you with arguments. They beat you with a calendar.
3. Medical liens become leverage
Hospitals and insurers want their money back. The longer a case drags, the more pressure accumulates from lien holders. Once that pressure reaches the client, the carrier knows they have leverage. A stressed client is a compliant client.
4. Carriers invest the float
Every dollar they do not pay you becomes a dollar they can put to work. Multiply this across thousands of claims and you see the incentive. Delay is not friction. It is revenue.
This is why Metro Law treats every injury case like a race. Fast evidence collection. Fast medical coordination. Fast pressure on the carrier. Not reckless speed, but strategic speed. Because when the other side profits from stalling, the only winning move is to stay two steps ahead.
Twenty years of fighting insurers has made one thing clear. Justice does not arrive to the patient. It arrives to the prepared.
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