“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?”
This would be OK if Judges would do their part instead of being part of the problem. The Judge can throw out a case with prejudice and eliminate the problem of jury shopping. If I hear one more attorney tell me his poor client deserves money from the State because he is in a wheelchair I will puke. The people I hear this from usually had a blood ethanol approaching O.3 and ran off the road at high speed. Sure it’s the States fault and since we must assign percentage of fault I assign 100% to the fool drinking and driving. I don’t think I (taxpayer)owe a drunk anything.
BFLR
You would be my kind of Juror. However, the power of a Judge to dismiss a case is limited. All of the facts alleges must be taken as conclusively proven and the application of the law to those facts must lead to one inescapable conclusion.
Bad cases like the one you describe are rarely brought. A Lawyer puts a substantial investment of time into cases. If you pick poorly, you won’t be in business for very long.