I understand your position, but I think the consequences of a claim being filed against an employer can be devasting depending on amount of the claim. When I was abstracting I had zero tolerance for error. My employees understood this up front at the time they were hired. It impressed upon them the need for accuracy. I got around the training/retraining problem by hiring highly experienced abstractors only. Most often they were attorneys that had the added benefit of law school training in real estate law. They usually were very careful because it becomes difficult for an attorney to find employment with another law firm after having been dismissed from their last job.It seems to have worked. I have never had a claim filed against me.

In recent years I scaled down the volume of abstracting I did. The declining fees and increased expenses made it unprofitable. I did not replace the abstractors as they left through attrition. I did the abstracting entirely myself. At this time we do abstracting only when it is connected to a closing.