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Is this just a case of "backwoods southern lawyers" seizing on a situation ripe for opportunity?

West Virginia and Mississippi are very poor, but are home to many wonderful, beautiful people.

Unfortunately the corrupt lawyer industry is powerful and exccedingly rich, like bad villians in a John Grisham novel. Think of lawyer Trent Lott and his relative the notorious billionaire tobacco crook shyster Dickie Scruggs. They are amazing well connected, and the judges and juries are paid off, according to newspaper articles and 60 Minutes investigations.

West Virginia and Mississippi are very poor, but are home to many wonderful, beautiful people.

Yeah I know... I lived in MS for a couple years actually and there were some great folks down there... I guess I just had the bad luck to run into some real doozies from WV...

Scruggs is Lott's brother-in-law.

I could tell all of you of attorneys I grew up with and attended Jackson Prep and Ole Miss with who have made incredible sums of money off this chicanery. The tobbaco monies gave them all a lot of "fishing funds" to go out and chum for cases. It's an industry. Have a car wreck and you'll find out.

My cousin was hit by a drunk woman who crossed a lane of traffic to hit him head on. She is suing him for "being in the way"...lol....naturally she has no insurance.

I know another elderly couple in the Delta who were screwed by a life insurance agent to transfer their policy into a market based annuity policy which of course crashed in the bear market of late. They lost a policy valued at 600K. They sued and an employee of the insurance company gave them damaging documents proving the insurance company knew they had screwed up by selling them a faulty policy for old folks.

The jury's punitive damages alone were.....28 MILLION....almost 56 times actual damages....this couple had never made over 40k in their lives in one year...lol

Now the good part...several jury members and the insurance company snitch have all come around looking to "get paid".

It's FUBAR down there litigation wise(not to mention crime and political corruption...very 3rd worldy).....take my word for it.

My hometown of Jackson in particular is lost for good.