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Old 03-07-2014, 11:16 PM
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Originally Posted by zonerboy View Post
You can thank the legal profession for this unfortunate situation.
Doctors want to treat injuries and illnesses. They do not want to be involved in needless and time consuming paperwork and court appearances which are required by greedy liability lawyers who are mainly interested in making large amounts of money by inflating damages (since they will take 25 to 33 percent of any settlement amounts)
Yes everyone hates the lawyers until they need help. If not for personal injury lawyers there would be no such thing as collecting for your pain and suffering, for your loss of earnings for your disfigurement. We could just pay the doctor for the direct cost of the medical care and after that you are out of luck. Those "greedy liability lawyers" are going to be on your side when you need them, and they get nothing if they lose which is a great system for keeping the doors of the courthouse open to everyone, not just the rich. Yes the legal system in America is terrible, but the system almost everywhere else is worse.