The movie "Hot Coffee" aired tonight on HBO. This film reveals how big business uses the McDonald's coffee case and other false arguments to promote tort reform and eradicate citizens' rights. This movie is powerful and well done
You mean like how the antigun crowd uses an isolated gun crime to push their own agenda for gun control?
Exactly, but some people refuse to see the similar tactics.
Tort reform, from what I've seen, is largely a windfall for the insurance companies. There are some stupid ass lawsuits that waste time and money and emotion, but I think the problem is overstated. I do think you should pay the other party's legal fees if you lose. I'm sure that would take care of some frivolous tort cases.
Also, for the giggles: clicky.
Also, for the giggles: clicky.
I thought this was about video games
I watched it and felt horrible for that girl from haliburton getting raped and basically held hostage in a storage container. Been all this time and she finally gets to go to court, hope something good comes to her. Somehow after the haliburton employees takes custody of her rape kit, parts of it go missing??? Gotta love big oil companies...
Must fight tort reform, lawyers need more money!!!!!
Seriously both sides are just out for the big bucks. Neither big business or lawyers give a crap about you. All they want is your money. I do support common sense tort reform which means FAIR rewards, no shopping for courts, etc, etc.
Produced and directed by Saladoff, an attorney and former president of Trial Lawyers for Public Justice.
Seriously both sides are just out for the big bucks. Neither big business or lawyers give a crap about you. All they want is your money. I do support common sense tort reform which means FAIR rewards, no shopping for courts, etc, etc.
Produced and directed by Saladoff, an attorney and former president of Trial Lawyers for Public Justice.
A lawyer against tort reform? 
A lawyer against tort reform?
True, but I tend to think of it in terms of my rights to receive just compensation. I'm not the litigious type, but if someone ever does anything to me and it's their fault through negligence, I don't want some politician feigning economic efficiency to tell me there's a limit to how much I "deserve" by setting a limit. That's as stupid to me as a politician telling me that I "make enough money". And what about the insurance companies? I'm not one of those people who hate insurance companies, but they make some ridiculous decisions sometimes that warrant being sued. Basically, setting a limit on the amount I can get from them in the event of their negligence is just ensuring that their profits aren't hurt and gets rid of the incentive to not make those bad decisions.
I have no sympathy for lawyers, they'll be fine either way. But I just don't want to find myself in a situation where I'm not able to receive fair compensation for someone else's negligence. But again, I'm fine with what most other countries do, i.e. making the plaintiff pay the defendant's legal and court fees should the defendant be found not guilty. I'm completely supportive of that.
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