Leaving Insurance Defense to Plaintiff Side: Compensation and Conflicts
Plaintiff base pay starts below defense ($120,000 against $130,000) and catches up by 5 to 7 years. You trade a billable floor for a cut of case fees.
Plaintiff base pay starts below defense ($120,000 against $130,000) and catches up by 5 to 7 years. You trade a billable floor for a cut of case fees.
If a firm pays a bonus, it usually runs 10% to 25% of base. About a quarter of the associates we talk to report no bonus at all.
SB 30 died in conference after passing both chambers in different forms. The next regular session is 2027. A firm with a big trial coming can't wait that long.
HB 837 cut Florida's negligence deadline to two years and ended one-way fees in most insurance suits. In our searches, commercial casualty hiring held up. The reform split the practice in two.
Senior insurance defense base pay runs about $175,000 against a $235,000 first-year base at firms on the Milbank scale. Carrier billing sets that gap, but firms that recruit well sell what that number leaves out.
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