More Attacks on Your Rights!
April 29, 2009
They are at it again! Those hypocrites over at the U.S. Chamber(pot) of Commerce want to take away your right to sue for damages- even though their members file hundreds if not thousands of lawsuits every year!
This time, it is a public relations ploy, showing anti-lawsuit ads before movies in theaters across the country. Although they spend more money lobbying Congress than any group, the Chamberpot is not satisfied with directly affecting the taxpayers through unfair legislation.
Now they have launched a campaign to take away the rights of injury victims by poisoning the jury pool. These ads are set out to convince jurors that injury victims shouldn’t be able to recover damages. Read more about the ads here.
No question that this will harm injury victims- jurors will be convinced that lawsuits are unfair, and award less damages. Which means that taxpayers get to pay for the costs of negligence instead of the wrongdoer.
When injury victims who don’t receive fair compensation from wrongdoers, they will turn to public services like Medicaid, Medicare and other government programs to help them get by.
Bottom line? Insurance companies and corporate wrongdoers pay less, while taxpayers foot the bill for damages!
Only in America.
Hank Greenberg Supports “Terrorism?”
March 5, 2009
In the news at thepoptort.com today- brand new law suit by Maurice “Hank” Greenberg. Hankie was recently the chairman of insurance giant AIG.
Now that he has been disgraced, and AIG has fleeced the taxpayers of millions, if not billions, Greenberg hired attorneys to sue AIG for making material misrepresentations that ruined his fortune.
Is this the same Greenberg that called tort lawyers- folks like me who represent injury victims- terrorists? One and the same, folks, one and the same.
Tort Reform- Another attack on the Poor?
December 3, 2008
My alma mater, Washington University School of Law, has published a couple of studies on the effects of “tort reform” in one of the school’s highly regarded legal journals. The first of these, Reforming the Tort Reform Agenda, http://law.wustl.edu/Journal/25/Davies.pdf, investigates the effect of tort law restrictions on the poorest in our society. By closing the court house doors, justice is effectively denied to those with the least resources in our society. A second study goes further, exploring The Racial Implications of Tort Reform, http://law.wustl.edu/Journal/25/DoroshowWidman.pdf.
These articles offer academic support that tort reform protects insurance companies while harming American consumers. Unfortunately, Americans don’t know that their rights have been attacked until they or a loved one are injured. And then, it is too late.