Sunday, August 29, 2010

Injustices From Personal Injury Lawyers

By Christopher Woods

Congratulations America, we've finally given the personal injury lawyers all the rope they need, and how fitting their plight, since they've been hanging Americans out to dry for decades. Millions of Americans were shocked to learn from The New York Times recently that personal injury lawyers knew about failures involving a tire company, yet didn't report this to any authority thereby letting nearly 200 people die because they wanted to protect their private lawsuits and their hefty awards. Client confidentiality became the primary argument of the lawyers when it comes to this.

Under contingency fee arrangements today, one third to one half of any award or settlement goes to the lawyer as a fee. The lawyers weren't protecting their clients, they were protecting their incomes. In this case, the lawyers are applying a double standard for their benefit wherein profits are prioritized over public safety. Yet when they do it, the lawyers' claim there's nothing illegal in what they've done, an argument that has always failed remarkably in the court of public opinion. The good news is that personal injury lawyers will never again be credible in claiming to protect the interests of consumers.

At last, their manipulations of justice, solely for their own game and hidden behind a facade of consumer protection, are being brought to light for all to see. The tire defects issue is only the latest in a continuing pattern of lawsuit abuse that has shaken our very Constitution, and it starts with the election process. Although they only make up a small fraction of the population, one of the largest contributors when it comes to political campaign is the personal injury lawyers. In so doing, this rich, well educated elite is attempting to use piles of cash to dictate laws that run counter to the best interest of all Americans.

Today, personal injury lawyers are easily filling their pockets by issuing class action lawsuits against products and services that are useful and safe. As they hide behind consumers, they could easily make bogus class actions and seek out the top prize in settlements. Actually, a lot of the claims filed by these lawyers result on coupons for their clients and when it came to the case filed against the size of computer monitors the lawyers got $6 million while the clients got mere $6 coupons. Other than take police off of the streets, these kinds of lawsuits also close parks and pools and raise taxes too.

Frivolous lawsuits against small businesses take away jobs and force them to close their doors. Frivolous lawsuits against health care providers raise prices and jeopardize access to care. Frivolous lawsuits as a whole increase our cost of living. Figures from the American tort reform association put the costs from lawsuits at $1,200 annually. Worse, this abuse diminishes confidence in our legal system, clogs courts and delays justice for legitimate victims.

Aside from not being policed, the personal injury lawyers' bar and its members continue to turn a deaf ear to the existence of problems. In order to correct the illegal extortion violations against American business and consumers, their colleagues are trying hard to be the good guys. The arrangement once involved the personal injury lawyers as the providers of trouble to their victims like Haman of old but now there has been a reversal of roles. When there is the problem of the influence personal injury lawyers have on the legislators, the courts, and liberties, revealing their crimes could be a move that disintegrates their influence.

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