McKinsey documents: smoking gun or blowing smoke?

The so-called McKinsey documents have become something of a Moby Dick in certain quarters, the legendary Great White Whale of the insurance world. Some plaintiff lawyers have become positively Ahab-like in their obsession with these documents, which they say shows that Allstate systematically engages in bad faith claims practices to grind down accident victims. The McKinsey documents had a big test in state court in Kentucky in the Hager case, where on Wednesday, after a seven-day trial, a jury returned a unanimous verdict for Allstate after deliberating just 35 minutes. Getting a zero verdict with the jury coming back that quickly is a big win for an insurance company, friends. Here is more on the decision from an excellent story by Brandon Ortiz of the Lexington Herald-Leader (click h