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Re: [RC] [RC] those stinking rich insurance companies pay??? - RHONDA LEVINSON<<vote for more limited liability. keep the lawyers from getting rich. >> This is SO wrong. Insurance companies make an insane amount of money; it's not the lawyers getting rich. And yes, the insurance companies are getting rich on all of our backs. They want their profits to remain insane, so they keep cranking up our insurance premiums. If you want more regulations and a better tort system, vote for more accountability for insurance companies. Vote for better and stronger laws for insurance bad faith claims. Limited liability laws insult our very legal system. A jury of 12 people has to agree that a plaintiff is entitled to whatever judgment that the plaintiff gets. Who are we, people who have never seen the evidence in the case, to decide ahead of time that a particular person should only receive a certain limited amount of money. In Kansas, for instance, you are entitled to only $250,000.00 in non-economic damages no matter how bad your injury is. Does that sound like a lot? It isn't. Picture being totally paralyzed and your compensation for that is $250,000.00. Would $250,000 adequately compensate you for that? Would that make you whole (which is the purpose of tort law)? That is the kind of situation that tort reform laws cause. You cannot categorically set a sum of money that a person should receive in compensation for an injury. Sorry, but this subject really gets me going. Most of the people talking about tort reform have no clue what is really happening in the legal system, and I'll guarantee you that these people have never been seriously injured when it was not their fault. 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 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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