ALL lawyers are Martha-fargin-bastiges..........until you need one. :0)
Walk down the street in D.C. and you’ll have a hard time picking anyone out who is NOT a lawyer.
Not gonna happen in any of our lifetimes, unfortunately.
Dick The Butcher - The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.
(Shakesspere’s Henry VI, part 2, Act 4, Scene 2)
A tragedy for one person is a new business opportunity for another.
There are reasons so many politicians are lawyers and so many lawyers are politicians.
Trial lawyers have taken a lot of the fun out of being a kid. Thanks to lawsuits or threats of such, teeter-totters, merry-go-rounds, jungle gyms and straight metal slides have long ago disappeared from parks. And diving boards have mostly disappeared from swimming pools.
I myself managed a few months ago to circumvent the idiot-proofing on my crossbow.
My thumb still ain’t right.
But it never occurred to me to sue anyone as a result.
I was in London a year ago, and it was so refreshing to not see warning labels on everything. At the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace there was a big slab of concrete ringed by a curb with a 6” gap between them. You could easily break an ankle. No warning signs or anything.
I had jury duty on a civil case and was asked what I thought about tort reform by a lawyer from Morgan & Morgan. I told him it was past time for it. Needless to say, I was recused.
International trade deals will/are immunizing multi-national corporations form litigation.
Government and their armies of bureaucratic also possess too many protections from prosecution and individual accountability.
The only entities deserving of tort reform protections are small businesses and individuals. That won’t happen in the oligarchic states of America.
The irony of this is that lawyers are willing and eager to bring baseless cases, and often win them, but the head of the FBI didn’t think all of Hillary’s wrongdoings were enough to indict.
My favorite is the folding aluminum/cardboard sun screen used in auto windshields that has the warning “Do not drive while in place.”
Tort reform and getting rid of Medicare/Medicaid were the most vital steps in fixing our health care system, and tort reform specifically can be implemented almost immediately.
Of course malicious vermin such as trial lawyers (who are almost 100% liberals) are going to oppose it; like accountants, their livelihoods depend on an inefficient system.
The reasonable man no longer exists in our society. Not to defend attorneys, but they are only able to get out of case what a jury says is reasonable. The problem is that we have a society that believes that it is reasonable for someone who has wealth (whether through insurance or deep pockets) to pay to a sob story person who does not have wealth regardless of whether there is any negligence. It's the "take from the wealthy whether warranted or not" mentality that is the real problem. The PI attorneys are taking advantage of the problem, and encouraging it, but I would still blame society. If the jurors said "sorry, but you were an idiot" instead of "the poor guy" then we wouldn't be talking about the need for tort reform.
And this is an old graph.