nobody can deny that seatbelts have save tens of thousands of lives thru the years – as no doubt some of the other changes Ralph has endorsed have. but sometimes the pendulum swings too far the other way. how much does each U.S. citizen pay each year in increased costs due to bottom feeding attorneys that have swung that pendulum too far? greedy tort lawyers are a fact of life, Ralph.
My understanding of U.S. law in it’s purest/idealistic form is a forum where people bring their disputes to get a fair and quick hearing aimed at peaceful resolution without violence. My experience and education of reality says differently:
1> The system often makes it so risky for people to sue that they
choose not to, and just suffer the insult and damages with no
compensation or acknowledgement of their damages/injury.
2> Attorneys do some work for FREE, but in most cases they are
very expensive to hire.
3> The cases we read about that make people think attorneys are
bad news bottom feeders may be exceptions to the rule, but they
seem all too common, and in mant cases unprincipled.
4> Reading about criminal convictions of attorneys and doctors
involved in fraudulent insurance claims damages the trust the
public would prefer to have in all of those in service to the
courts.
5> In those cases where landmark decisions force product safety
changes we all benefit from:
a) They prove Congress and other legislators, and gov’t
agencies have failed in their duties to regulate for public
safety.
b) Manufacturers still manage to make many products that are
unsafe, but now their are three labels on each item all
printed too small to read.
c) When attorney’s or their clients are proven right, and win
in court, they deserve fair compensation, but not windfall
profits. Some standard ought to exist that allows excess
“punitive damages” to be paid to the state or federal govern-
ment to fund improved regulation rather than unfairly enrich-
ing either attorneys or plaintiffs.
6> People deserve a system that does a better job of protecting
their reputation until they are actually convicted of a crime
or in civil case until the settle or lose. The other side is
it should be against public policy to allow settlements where
the party paying refused to admit any responsibility, and the
public is unable to learn that this person or company is really
undeserving of their trust and future business.
7> Law is complicated enough without lawyers writing so many bad
laws that they claim we need a constant supply of new bad laws
to fix. The only people really served by the current legal
system are those who make a living from it!
8> We could do better. And in the past we actually did better.
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nobody can deny that seatbelts have save tens of thousands of lives thru the years – as no doubt some of the other changes Ralph has endorsed have. but sometimes the pendulum swings too far the other way. how much does each U.S. citizen pay each year in increased costs due to bottom feeding attorneys that have swung that pendulum too far? greedy tort lawyers are a fact of life, Ralph.
My understanding of U.S. law in it’s purest/idealistic form is a forum where people bring their disputes to get a fair and quick hearing aimed at peaceful resolution without violence. My experience and education of reality says differently:
1> The system often makes it so risky for people to sue that they
choose not to, and just suffer the insult and damages with no
compensation or acknowledgement of their damages/injury.
2> Attorneys do some work for FREE, but in most cases they are
very expensive to hire.
3> The cases we read about that make people think attorneys are
bad news bottom feeders may be exceptions to the rule, but they
seem all too common, and in mant cases unprincipled.
4> Reading about criminal convictions of attorneys and doctors
involved in fraudulent insurance claims damages the trust the
public would prefer to have in all of those in service to the
courts.
5> In those cases where landmark decisions force product safety
changes we all benefit from:
a) They prove Congress and other legislators, and gov’t
agencies have failed in their duties to regulate for public
safety.
b) Manufacturers still manage to make many products that are
unsafe, but now their are three labels on each item all
printed too small to read.
c) When attorney’s or their clients are proven right, and win
in court, they deserve fair compensation, but not windfall
profits. Some standard ought to exist that allows excess
“punitive damages” to be paid to the state or federal govern-
ment to fund improved regulation rather than unfairly enrich-
ing either attorneys or plaintiffs.
6> People deserve a system that does a better job of protecting
their reputation until they are actually convicted of a crime
or in civil case until the settle or lose. The other side is
it should be against public policy to allow settlements where
the party paying refused to admit any responsibility, and the
public is unable to learn that this person or company is really
undeserving of their trust and future business.
7> Law is complicated enough without lawyers writing so many bad
laws that they claim we need a constant supply of new bad laws
to fix. The only people really served by the current legal
system are those who make a living from it!
8> We could do better. And in the past we actually did better.