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Old 12-21-2009, 08:46 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by highthief View Post
Try getting out and exercising and stop eating all those donuts you flabby bastards and you wouldn't need half this stuff!
I must have missed the announcement about how Tim Horton's is good for you.

I find it ironic that the third post in this thread (I think you all can see where his post was deleted) was by a spammer selling some sort of French insurance sceme.

I came back to elaborate on lawyers. The ones that advertise usually have an area of expertise - Workers Compensation (our version of universal healthcare that's a piss-poor substitute), drunk driving, car accidents, etc. These areas are pretty specific and you usually don't see one lawyer doing multiple areas since the laws and (more importantly) the personalities on the other side are different.

In the old days, the pond-scum lawyers (think Denzel Washington's character in "Philadelphia") chased lawyers. Now they advertise. Cuts down on their milage.

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Originally Posted by Aladdin Sane View Post
I do not believe you are correct about this. Most options would not "remove the right to sue." The proposed tort reform I'm familiar with only limits damages (to $1,000,000) and/or enacts a loser pays rule.
Sorry for my lazy semantics. The idea would remove the right to sue by making the punishments for losing distasteful or the payout so low that it's not worth it. There are, however, several efforts at reform that completely remove the right to sue unless the plantiff can demonstrate "grievous bodily harm". Since those are the most recent I've seen reported, those are the ones that came to mind.

However, the caps I've seen are much lower (although they vary state-by-state). I've seen product liability caps as low as $25,000 and general bodily injury caps as low as $100,000.

I'll state, as I have many times in the past, that there is no such thing as a "frivolous" lawsuit. There may be some that don't have merit in the eyes of the defendant and there may be some that are downright fraudulent allegations by the plantiff, but those are failures by plantiff attorneys (including plantiff representing themselves) to properly perform their duties as officers of the court.
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