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To: Brilliant
No one is claiming that tort compensation should be abolished altogether.

I am.

Tort law is about making lawyers rich. It's about legal fees and not about making the injured party "whole again."

Life is inherently risky and our legal system has evolved into the fiction if bad things happen, it's always somebody's fault and they have to pay...dearly!

The problem is we are ALL paying dearly!

Nobody forces you to go to a doctor. If the doctor makes a mistake, why do you get to sue him for a ton of money?

If you are hurt in an accident on the Interstate highway, who forced you to be there? Who told you driving was guaranteed to be safe?

Tort law is a scam the benefits lawyers mostly.

3 posted on 03/13/2006 5:38:10 AM PST by NoControllingLegalAuthority
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To: NoControllingLegalAuthority

Hmmm... well that would be the end of the insurance industry if you could not sue anyone. I don't think that is necessary. We've had a tort system in this country since its founding. It's only become a problem in recent years as the activists have used it to redistribute wealth.


6 posted on 03/13/2006 5:40:56 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: NoControllingLegalAuthority
Entirely correct. Free men buy insurance when they need it, they don't go crying to a court and they don't pay 30% to a demagogue-errant.
17 posted on 03/13/2006 6:23:12 AM PST by JasonC
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