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Personal Injury Lawsuits
and Legal
Information.
The largest and
fastest growing segment of the legal profession is in the area of personal
injury lawsuits. The filing of personal Injury lawsuits in America is
increasing at an exponential rate. These
Personal Injury Lawsuits and
Legal
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This
Personal
Injury Lawsuits and
Legal Information section is intended to keep you current and up
to date with the ever expanding field of personal injury law. This is by
no means a small task.
In 21st Century America, personal injury lawyers abound and not
surprisingly, so do personal
injury lawsuits. This double dose of double trouble is quickly
converting a once proud nation into a pathetic band of money grubbing,
point the finger and blame everyone else “victims."
Personal responsibility left the building the moment personal injury
lawyers took over the show and America is none the better for it.
If you listen to the personal injury lawyers, they would have you believe
that every man, woman and child in America can now be considered a victim
at one time or another. I don’t agree with this nonsensical line of
thinking, but many Americans seem to be more than willing to toss their
pride aside and become a victim in order to score some sort of legal
shakedown from someone else.
Personal injury lawyers make money hand over
fist by shamelessly promoting this “I’m a victim” mentality. If someone is
at fault, which someone always is in the personal injury lawyer’s book,
then the lawyers feel compelled to make that miscreant pay and pay through
the nose.
But when it’s all said and done (and when you’re talking lawyers, more is
always said than done), who’s ends up paying the freight? Who forks over
the dough to pay for all of this suing going on nationwide? It’s you and
me, that’s who.
Say what you want about personal injury lawyers and call them what you
will, they didn’t fall off the turnip truck this morning. They know full
well that it does them absolutely no good whatsoever to sue someone who
has no money. After all, getting paid is the name of the lawyer’s game.
That shouldn’t come as some big surprise, should it?
Personal injury lawyers look to sue people, companies and corporations who
have the deep pockets to pay the tab. The deeper, the better. You should
know the drill by now. Sue someone who has a lot of money, bring the heavy
heat and wait for the other party to pony up a settlement offer. In a
nutshell, it’s a game of legalized extortion.
Personal injury lawyers
don’t want to go to trial, they just want the other party to settle,
pocket the dough and get busy suing the pants off someone else.
The defendant who throws the other side a bone, sometimes a big, juicy
one, then turns around and passes the costs on down the line to its
customers. It’s important to remember that litigation costs are always
have been and always will be passed down to the lowest rung on the ladder,
which not coincidentally always ends being the American consumer.
If a big
company settles a lawsuit, it passes the costs on down to the consumer. If
an insurance company settles a lawsuit, the costs are passed on down to
its customers. So on and so forth.
Increased costs on virtually everything we purchase - groceries, clothing,
automobiles, insurance, in fact just about everything we buy - can be
directly attributed in part to the costs associated with runaway civil
litigation in America. Lawyers sue, lawyers get paid and we get caught
holding the bag - and an empty bag at that. Come on America,
Wake Up and Smell
the Lawyers at work.
Unless you’ve been in a coma for the past decade or so, you’ve no doubt
noticed that seedy personal injury lawyers and their equally seedy
personal injury advertisements are in our face and all over the place.
Personal injury attorneys and personal injury advertisements have
proliferated to the point that it is literally impossible to ignore them
any longer.
Everywhere you turn - TV and radio spots, full page newspaper
ads, cheesy billboards and full color yellow page directories - the same
old personal injury mantra is repeated over and over until we all know it
by heart.
“Have you been injured?” these ambulance chasers ask us over and over
again. Come on, if you’ve been injured, don’t you already know it? Do you
really need a personal injury lawyer to point this out to you? Of course
not, but this contrived come on is making thousands upon thousands of
lawyers millions and billions of dollars nationwide.
Then once these personal injury vultures have convinced us that maybe,
just maybe we have indeed been injured at one time or another, they seal
the deal by boldly proclaiming, “You may be due compensation!” That’s
right - you!
Wow! Free money! Now that’s a quite deal, Lucille! All we need to do is
call the personal injury lawyer’s “injury hot-line” to get the money train
rolling.
Now if an enterprising lawyer can somehow convince a judge, any judge will
do, to grant class action status to a
personal injury lawsuit (such as a
manufacturing defect in a product or harmful diet drug that has allegedly
affected a number of people), that case becomes a class
action lawsuit, where the payoffs to the lawyers can reach stratospheric
levels.
In Chapter 12 of
Wake Up and
Smell the Lawyers, we
talk about how personal injury lawyers have converted America’s honored
court houses into out houses (click to read an
excerpt from Chapter 12
entitled Contempt of Court).
Personal injury solicitation has now become the name of the game as far as
the personal injury attorneys are concerned. To hear the personal injury
attorneys tell their side of the story, each and every one of us are due
compensation from somebody for something or another. If you think, even
for a fleeting moment that it’s not as bad as I make it sound, then simply
grab a local telephone book and look under “attorneys” in the yellow
pages.
I want you to look for the personal injury lawyer ads in the yellow page
directory. Trust me, they won’t be hard to find. These are the ads that
have “Personal Injury” in big, bold print. In the body of these sleazy,
tacky ads you’re sure to find quite a laundry list of personal injuries
you or someone you know may have suffered, including auto and truck
accidents, workman’s comp/job injuries, boating accidents, nursing home
neglect, medical malpractice, hospital/physician negligence and the like.
Then there are the original personal injury lawsuits, the ones who got the
whole mess started in the first place. You know the ones I’m talking about
here, the hard to detect back and neck injuries, and the hard to defend
slip and fall injuries. These questionable injuries have paid off
handsomely to thousands of personal injury lawyers over the years.
Last but certainly not least, the really big money in the personal injury
lawsuit field can be found in the dangerous or recalled products and the
injuries from prescription medicine areas of law.
This
Personal
Injury Lawsuits and
Legal Information section is your one
stop source to keep up to date and current on information in the personal
injury field. Here you can find out what kind of personal injury lawsuits
being brought forward by personal injury lawyers nationwide and review our
take on each segment of the personal injury field. We hope you enjoy your
visit and look forward to seeing you regularly.
Click here to find out more about these and other
personal injury categories:
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Auto and
truck accident personal injuries.
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Back and neck personal injuries.
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Boating accident personal injuries.
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Dangerous or recalled products - personal injuries.
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Hospital/physician negligence - personal injuries.
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Injuries from prescription medicine personal injuries.
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Medical malpractice personal injuries.
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Nursing home neglect personal injuries.
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Slip and fall personal injuries.
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Wrongful death personal injuries.
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Workman’s comp/job personal injuries.
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Miscellaneous - personal injuries.
If you would like to order our acclaimed book entitled Wake
Up and Smell the Lawyers or perhaps hurl it at an ambulance chasing
personal injury lawyer (just kidding?), click
Wake Up and Smell the Lawyers. You will be able to review an outline of the book as
well as selected excerpts taken from the book.
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decided to get a bit creative with our
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Dictionary
and jokingly make up definitions that more accurately portray legal
terms and definitions as we feel they should be. We invite you to enjoy!
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section of our website.
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