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Funny how people like to hate lawyers until they need themselves.

On Wednesday, July 13, 2005, at 07:49 AM, RHONDA LEVINSON wrote:

> Did you read the part that the 1/3 to 40% of the net of the lawsuit 
> helps me to be able to help those with the smaller lawsuits where I 
> make $20.00 an hour?
>
> Most jurors are normal, sensible people who can smell BS a mile away.  
> You grossly underestimate their intelligence and ability to make a 
> rational decision.  I would trust my jurors WAY before I would trust a 
> bunch of politicians to decide how much a person should receive for an 
> award.
>
> And yes, the limit is on non-economic damages -- so what?  You don't 
> think pain and suffering and permanent disfigurement are legitimate 
> claims?  The goal of the tort system is to try to make you whole or 
> compensate you if you cannot be made whole.  If you are paralyzed or 
> your face is so severely scarred that it can never be repaired, does 
> $250,000.00 adequately compensate you???  Would you let a person 
> permanently scar you or paralyze you if I offered you $250,000 for 
> it???  There is more to life than your job and other economic factors.
>
> Out of the many, many, many attorneys I know, a grand total of TWO are 
> slime balls and both are domestic law attorneys, not personal injury 
> attorneys.
>
> Well, gotta go.  I'm off for court to help a kid with permanent scars 
> from a dog bite from a dog the owners knew was vicious and had bitten 
> before.  The insurance company is refusing to pay for plastic surgery 
> and the permanent nerve damage.  The other attorney said that they 
> were poor and if they dragged it out long enough the parents would 
> have to settle for a lot less.  Ha, ha, ha.
>
> Rhonda
>
> "...when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no 
> more, another Heaven and another Earth must pass before such a one can 
> be again."  William Beebe
>
>
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