U.S. Chamber: ‘Broken Lawsuit System’ Hurts Small Businesses

May 18, 2007

  • May 18, 2007 at 8:02 am
    LL says:
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    So the next time a tornado/hurricane/landslide smacks your home, I assume you will be applying for FEMA handouts, because you just don\’t believe in paying premiums to insure it?

  • May 18, 2007 at 1:42 am
    just a wonderin\' says:
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    The article says funds were diverted to trial lawyers but wouldn\’t most of these be small businesses too ? which pay salaries to employees, and otherwise put the money back into the community ?

  • May 18, 2007 at 1:50 am
    SO are drug dealers says:
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    Although most drug dealers sell a product for a market price.

    Lawyers do not make anything but fees for themselves. While they do help some people some of the time, they help themselves all of the time.

    Comparing a dry cleaner who in return for money cleans your clothes, with a lawyer who sues that dry cleaner for 50 million dollars for losing a pair of pants is a false choice. (look up the case where the lawyer is suing a dry cleaner for 50 mil. true story)

    Remember, every other business offers a service or product we can take or leave. Lawyers force themselves into a position where you must pay them or be ordered to pay them. One is a choice one is forced.

    Last point, I do think that lawyers can and do help people in need. But I have seen many examples where lawyers are helping only themselves using the law as a weapon, just as a robber uses a gun.

    Boca Condo King

  • May 18, 2007 at 2:14 am
    media mogul says:
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    This is a bit of hocus-pocus, self-serving claptrap by the US C of C. Leaving aside drug cases, most of which should not be brought–just go after the kingpins with their government connections throughout the world and quit busting the street punks–our courts are all tied up with business litigation. The subtext here is that we should hammer the consumer and mass tort cases, but that is a distraction from the real cause of choked courts.

    As a small business owner, I fear legal blackmail (i.e. civil litigation) perptetrated by bullying big companies far more than consumer suits.

    US C of C members-if you think the courts are crowded, quit leaping to litigate everything.

  • May 18, 2007 at 2:16 am
    Clm Mgr guy says:
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    The fix is easy…make the loser in any Court battle, whether it is the plaintiff or the defendant, pay the winner\’s legal fees, expert fees, court costs, and any jury award of money damages.

    Claim people: How many times have you heard from the plaintiff\’s bar \”You\’re goint to have to pay for your defense; you may as well pay me to go away.\”? The current system is legalized extortion.

  • May 18, 2007 at 2:27 am
    Observer says:
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    is a great idea, but Dems will never allow it because trial lawers own them and their base is the \”little guy\” that will no longer be able to participate in lawsuit lottery. If the little guy really has a problem requiring a multi million dollar settlement, he should be OK with loser pays.

  • May 18, 2007 at 3:12 am
    Wrong Study says:
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    What the USCofC should have studied was the countries around the world that have a successful system to mitigate suits instead of studying what they already know to be the case.

  • May 18, 2007 at 6:06 am
    Mike says:
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    Let\’s just get rid of ALL OF THE INSURANCE COMPANIES and this will take the money out of the whole game and this will the LAWYERS out of the game..
    It seems to me, from many years of working in the insurance industry, that the carriers will only pay claims fairly once a lawyer gets involved..I\’ve seen this firsthand while working for 2 large insurance companies…So, when then is the blame for the legal costs, often times it\’s the insurance companies.
    So, if we get rid of the insurance companies, the lawyers will out work..
    Let\’s give it a try!!

  • May 18, 2007 at 6:53 am
    aunti everything says:
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    So which two companies fired you?



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