Re: How Low Will The Lawyers Go?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Of that Gt you are most definetly correct. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif [/QB][/quote]

Suspected as much, but then I could subsequently bring an action for non-payment of settlement, charge whopping great default interest on the debt and re-sue you for not paying my first award.

Yippee, Geo, Shrapnel and Atrocities and all their offspring for subsequent generations enslaved to Clan Growltigga. I could start an empire.

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">]How about as a compromise we just cane him. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif [/QB][/quote]

Ooh, yes please, and can we use bamboo, for the extra pain that little bendiness gives you? and can we rub it down with a rasping file, so that he gets splinters in his backside when we cane him, and ooh ooh ooh, can we tie him over a barrel as I find that downward swipe of the bamboo in a vertical trajectory just gives us that extra bonus bit of agony...

Yeah, bugger juries and awards, let's just cane people for minor misdemeanours

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i'm gonna sue this thread for meandering aimlessly.

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im giving the lawyer the benefit of the doubt...

ie, this is so clearly ridiculous that he MUST have intended the whole sordid affair to expose the stupidity of the current patent system http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

if he's serious, then... hell, he's worse than mcbride ;P

Re: How Low Will The Lawyers Go?
 

Hi Shrek!
I must say that I didn't feel insulted by the thread but what Growltigger is saying is nearly the same I'm feeling about this matter (small wonder if you read my profile). http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
Many of the things people get upset about are results of the US law system that are just alien to the German law. There is no punitive damage in German civil law whatsoever so forget about cashing in millions in Germany. You "only" get your damage compensated and you have to prove what damage you actually have. A well, I will stop whining about it, Growltigger said it a lot better then I can do in English. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: How Low Will The Lawyers Go?
 

IMO, one of the biggest problems with the US legal system is the concept that "pain and suffering" are worth monetary damages.

Another big problem is people not taking personal responsibility for their own actions; that spreads far beyond the legal system.

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Mephisto:

I've seen your profile before, paramedic and lawyer...

Too bad you aren't in the US, because that could be a great way to meet new clients. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Until tort reform (making the plaintiff financially responsible for filing frivolous lawsuits) is enacted, the benefits (lots of easy money quickly) will outweigh the costs (higher prices & insurance rates) in the minds of the people filing these suits. There are too many lawyers spinning a system that makes it too easy to sue for googobs of money.

EDIT - Oh, and BTW... go ahead and tax cigarettes all you want - but lay off my cigars!!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">What about your cars and personal property?

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Q: Who in the (USA) is responsible... Golfer, Golf Course, or County?

A (USA) golfer hits a ball over a high fence and it hits a car and that car causes an accident (In the country of the first part).

The golf course claims grandfather rights of operation. They were here first and had plenty of buffer land, until the county condemed a corner of it and placed the 4 lane there. Further more, they have complied with the law by building the fence at great expense.

The county claims it is not responsible for the actions of other people or for foriegn objects entering the roadway. Also, the fence is areasonable precaution required by the law.

well...

The (USA contingency) lawyers think about...
they investigate a little deeper...
and sue the one with the deepest pockets.


EDIT: Added ( ) bold comments, OK GT?

[ January 28, 2004, 15:54: Message edited by: Wardad ]

Re: How Low Will The Lawyers Go?
 

The problem with these ambulance chasers now is that when people are really hurt in an accident, they lose in court.

You cannot tell a jury you are suing an insurance company.

You cannot tell a jury you are suing because you have no income and need your medical cost covered that have gone beyond PIP.

The Insurance Company can utterly destroy your credibility because you did not go see a doctor, or failed to keep an appointment, taking comments made to medical staff out of context, and editing video depositions so they "fit" the insurance companies lie.

They can do this because you are powerless, by court order and law, from telling the whole story. That you did not go to the doctor because your PIP coverage had maxed out and any more medication or doctors visits were your responsibility to pay for.

The laws work both ways, they are designed to make truth subjective. Which ever lawyer can present the best "show" wins.

Tabbacoo companies are the lowest form of life on earth and what they did to make Tobacco more addictive was out of pure evil. The Trial lawyers just cashed in on it.

I agree that tort reform is needed, but when law is subject to preseved truth, then justice is no longer blind. An inocent man can be convicted for a crime he did not commit because of subjective turth.

A man seriously injured in a car accident looses his case in court because the Insurance Lawyers have all the laws in there favor. BIG MONEY buys the laws.

I believe that our jury system is broken, and I know that our crimial and civil law systems are utterly bog down in BS.

If a person if tried for a crime, and they are found inocent, or aquitted, then the State should pay for there financial losses incurred as a result of the trial.

To many times to many people have lost everything they own to lawyers and court cost for utterly BS reasons.

As long as we continue to accept our system of justice as is, we will continue to see more and more abuses of the system for those who can afford the price of justice.

Simply put, how much justice are you willing to pay for? In the case of trial lawyers, a lot because the pay off is even bigger.

[ January 29, 2004, 02:13: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

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yeah, but people do scam the court's by faking injuries and finding a docter to back them up.