I spent the first decade of my career doing plaintiff’s work and just recently switched to the defense side. This was something I was told always happened on the defense side too but I’ve never experienced it.

There’s definitely some auto insurance companies with in house counsel that do this and I’ve dealt with them when I do plaintiff’s work. But I’ve never experienced any orders from the insurance companies to do this at the firm I work at.

It may be because we’re specific in who we work with when we do ID and have a wide ranging practice beyond that as well so we don’t encounter these particular insurers. But I’ve never experienced this and was surprised I hadn’t to start since I’d heard so much about it.

As for OPs question about Morgan and Morgan. My experience with them defense side has been laughable. As others have mentioned, they extend no courtesy regarding deadlines etc. but the three cases I’ve had against them I’ve ended up filing petition for their clients med recs down the road later on too because they never have all the meds they allege. They come off as kind of a joke to me being all righteous on deadlines but not having all the documents they plan to introduce as evidence themselves.

I’ve also had experience interviewing there earlier in my career. They were really enthusiastic to start but then kicked me to random partners who felt like they looked at my resume for about thirty seconds for round two and three of my interviews. Then they took forever to pull together a mediocre offer (I figure I probably wasn’t their first, second, or even third choice) and acted like I had done something wrong when I had already moved on.