I blame the lawyers! Everyone has been conditioned to fear any and all potential liability issues at any cost, and often times the cost is our very freedom! If not for these ambulance-chasing assholes and prick judges who allow to hear these frivolous suits, Amercia wouldn't be a mere shodow of its former self!!!
Enabled by people who won't get off their butts to go ask their neighbor to stop the kid from hitting the baseball over the fence and ruining the flowers. He'd rather sue. But even if he does get out of his chair the neighbor will be pissed off at the mere suggestion that the kid shouldn't do it and won't be reasonable. Hello, frivolous lawsuit.
How is frivolous to be defined?
Should we not also blame the people who sit on these juries and award these outrageous amounts? Should the jurors award (for example) a family represented by John Edwards only $25,000 instead of $25 million for the death of their child due to a doctor's incompetence? If a person is blind for the rest of his life because a doctor allowed an inexperienced doctor to assist in the surgery should that person make do/accept his fate? Maybe not even sue? If a woman ends up with kidney disease because the doctor prescribed the wrong medicine should not relief come in the form of monetary compensation? What should be the limit?
We have the right to our day in court as defined by our country's laws --at what point do we limit that?
Lawyers didn't advertise until what 20-30 years ago? Perhaps that would help if we prohibited advertising...if we could justify limiting lawyers' free speech. We do it with cigarette makers.
My understanding is that lawyers can't refuse a case anyway (except they can refer it to someone if it's out of their area of expertise). Maybe someone knows a lawyer and can ask if that's true.
Not saying something shouldn't be done. Just wondering how to do it. Any thoughts?
(perhaps need to move this to a new thread)