I wasn't trying to get out of it. they just thought I wouldn't be a good juror I guess. i just gave honest snswers to thier questions.

that kind of boring hurts.

perhaps so. would we be better off as a society shifting some of that money toward teachers, police, stuff and cutting out the costs that profits and insurance represent to the general population. just a notion.

@hankster might want to consider the costs or legal and medical educations and the debt the lawyers and doctors have. just a notion and the fact that for every Plaintiff and cured sick, injured or hurt person that wins a lawsuit against a dishonest company or heals, it may be worth the money.

@lerlo i see the comparison of doctors and lawyers is a false equivalence. in simple terms a doctor tends to a patient a lawyer has a client. I believe these personal injury lawyers you see on TV are much more likely to view their clients as business opportunities more than just someone in need of help.

@hankster Imagine if doctors and lawyers received their pay from something other than their patients or clients or settlements. And why do these guys deserve so much pay, just because they say they do?

@bingst I do believe doctors and lawyers should be paid well. its hard work, it requires a lot of up front cost in education, the cost of malpractice insurance is nutzo. I don't think all lawyers are out of line. its a very needed profession, but the ambulance chasing looks a lot more like using someones ill fortune to make bucks.

@hankster Maybe some deserve big bucks. Still, if it came from somewhere else, and were actually based on a different measure, I think it would change what and how they do things on a very fundamental level.

@hankster yes you must be right because the client who had third degree burns over much of the lower half of their body due the blatant negligence of the restaurant who had 700 previous complaints about the temperature of their coffee and didnt care, only gets 66% of the multimillion dollar award

@bingst what kind of suggestion are you making?

@lerlo imo....overpaid lawyers.

@hankster those lawyers get nothing if they lose, that's okay right?

@lerlo they don't lose often. they choose well on the business opportunities. its thier choice.

@hankster and you know the stats of civil cases too, impressive. Their choice if they lose a case, bleeding the system if they win and damn their clients, got it. The offending companies get to do as they please because it's capitalism. Makes perfect sense. Meanwhile there are golfers making millions for a weekend of golf and I'm sure that's your next post right? People making a whole lot of money off consumers most of which don't even like golf

@lerlo I think it's great when people who have been hurt are in some way compensated generously. I think it's problematic when bad companies go belly-up and leave all their workers without jobs, the workers that had nothing to do with nothing. and let's not forget the burden of proof is greatly diminished in a civil case. the lawyers really aren't taking much of a chance. what I really find offensive is the personal injury lawyer who makes out like it's all about the client and destroying the evil when really it's about their own pocketbook. golf is entirely irrelevant.

@hankster so you only care about certain people making money, I get it. Siding with companies that decide that a few deaths is cheaper than fixing their product is okay with you as long as they don't lay off workers I understand completely

@lerlo your continuous efforts to characterize my perspective and tell me what i think sounds like your own justifications for the industry's norms. peace.