But I repeat myself.....
The wrong Feiger passed away.
This is another aspect of life today that desperately needs to be addressed. It’s like the prospect of overthrowing the Iranian regime. It will have some bad side effects but overall everyone will be better off once the bullet is bitten and tiger is taken on once and for all.
Add to that the cost of illegal immigration to America’s producing shrinking producing class and you suddenly realize why life is not getting any better for our country.
I am not holding my breath, but I do pray daily, literally, that these very expensive problems will addressed in a serious manner.
This is exactly what happened in Maryland. Many kids went to illegal places to swim, the reservoirs and drowned because of lawsuits against legal lifeguarded swimming holes.
The abuse of the tort lawyers is also the abuse of the lawyers who defend against the tort suits. All the lawyers make money off the parasitic actions.
The defense lawyers proudly claim they are free from blame while tacitly approving and even promoting the actions of their brethren.
How far into life has “FOL” (fear of lawyers) gone?
Years ago, in my jewelry store, I had a rather simple, hand turned CUTTER used for the removal of any kind of ring that could not be normally removed. Simple job depending on thickness and width of ring. Then, “come back in three weeks and we’ll resize the ring”. We did not even charge to cut the ring off.
A ring squeezing a swollen finger is the equivalent of a tourniquet left on way too long. Disaster can result.
A woman brought her crying child into my best friend’s store (really him) a metal washer on a finger already turned BLUE. The washer had to be cut twice, into halves and removed, but the boy in a panic kept wiggling and pulling away. At one point he moved his hand and the slow turning cutting blade nicked the hand enough to draw blood.
The washer was removed (no charge of course), the people left and the mother neglected to carefully wash the injured finger and palm. Result...infection big time.
Soon, enter a lawyer, accusing my friend of everything but treason. $4000.00 later the ring cutter was thrown out and people sent to ER’s for what was ONCE a simple courtesy afforded by most stores at the time.
The second ring cutter tossed out was MINE.
FOL struck again.
At the end of the day, who is it that gives out the money here? Why do the liability insurance companies pay? Is it because somebody with a bodily injury or property damage has a lawyer? Or is it that a JURY might decide to give away the store. Stossel does nothing but shoot the messenger here. Juries decide how much compensation to award for an injury, not the lawyers.
So the tort system is based upon individual responsibility. You pay compensation where your own wrongful conduct has caused harm. Members of the community decide if your conduct was substandard and how much you should pay.
What do you propose to replace the tort system? Broad immunity for obstetrics, swimming holes and dangerous machines. Then all you will have is injured people becomming ward of and dependent upon public assistance. Why is that a good thing?
Is there any other kind of tort lawyer these days?
Key quote: “I’ve come to think of lawyers the way I think about nuclear missiles. We need them to keep us safe. But we avoid using missiles because we understand the collateral damage they do. We ought to avoid lawyers for the same reason.”
I propose as a cure nationalized legal care.
Most insurance companies pay exactly the same for a vaginal delivery as for a C-section. How does Feiger explain that?