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This article cannot be allowed to stand without comment.  The author clearly has no clue what he is talking about and did little to no research.  The problem is not with abstractors but with settlement agents looking for ways to increase their own profit at the expense of the very clients they have been hired to protect.  This cannot go unchallenged.  We have already seen massive problems with an increase in claims because of the offshoring of abstracting/examination and a reliance on data bases created by individuals that only know how to fill in the blanks on a laptop instead of reviewing an actual document for accuracy.  When is this industry going to wake up and see that they are doing a diservice to their clients by abandoning the very backbone of the entire settlement process?