Posted on 07/11/2008 7:02:51 AM PDT by MrLegalReform
I recently sat down with a reporter from the Ukrainian Service of the Voice of America to talk about the impact that lawsuit abuse is having on America’s small businesses. It seems she had stumbled across our Web site, IAmLawsuitAbuse.org, which brings home the sad reality that lawsuit abuse hurts working families and neighborhood businesses. As someone who is still trying to understand the unique legal culture of the U.S., the foreign-born reporter was shocked that even the most ridiculous of lawsuits has the potential to destroy a business or force it to lay off employees.
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Good question. Instead of dozens of ways of attacking the Trial Lawyer industry over the past years (limiting damage amounts for most lawsuits, etc.) and nibbling around the edges of refom - perhaps chucking all these “fixes” and pushing through some “loser pay” rules in as many states as possible would be a better way to go.
Over the last few years this form of paying lawyers/solicitors has been creeping into Britain with the no win no fee adverts that we see everyday on our TV sets.
Bush fixed this with tort reform , remember? /SAR
Eight years ago at least Bush was paying lip service to tort reform. It’s 10,000 beneath the surface of this campaign. Why don’t we have reform? The bar has the country in a death grip. No transaction can take place unless they get a piece of the action and the’d be nuts to let that good deal get away from them.
Why don’t we have reform?
How many legislators are lawyers?
And people sneer at the Russians with their mafia. Of course, our mafiosi have all been to law school.
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