I think it's been great. Attorneys are calling up, enthusiastic about trying to settle. We will not abandon other ways to settle claims. This is just another tool in our belt. So far, insurance companies have uploaded 3,000 claims to the Web site in April, compared to 150 in January.
Claims stay in the system for three months and are then purged if the other side fails to respond.
A patent is pending on the real-time technology. Meanwhile, the private company's revenue is doubling every week, according to Burchetta, who declined to reveal total revenue figures. Burchetta suggested they both secretly write down their offers on a piece of paper and give them to a court clerk. At that time, the Internet was largely unknown and unused. As the years passed, Burchetta and Brofman became partners in a law firm, united in their complaint that negotiating with insurance companies had become even more cumbersome.