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The Tool that is Common Sense
What clients are provided with are vouchers to use on their next purchase while the personal injury lawyers are receiving lots of money in settlements. Protection for harassed consumers is now possible with one judge. Lambasted by a judge was a New York City law firm that demanded a million in legal fees because it offered the passengers of a cruise ship vouchers worth from $10 to $60.
From one law firm came about the $2 million settlement for a class action lawsuit against a cruise line in Fort Lauderdale when the company inflated port docking charges for passengers who were unaware. What the firm wanted after returning to the courtroom was $1 million in legal fees. After the judge sliced the $1 million request to slightly less than $300,000, he ordered that four firms from southern Florida split it in a 27 page ruling. Another order from the judge involved 25 percent of the lawyers' legal fees to be paid in the same vouchers given to the 80,000 plaintiffs they managed to corral into the lawsuit.
Regular customers of the cruise were the passengers and so the firm's lead lawyer said that the travel vouchers are beneficial to them. The response gained from this was that they deserved cash considering how vouchers cannot pay bills. There are times when personal injury lawyers round up class action plaintiffs without any warning as parties to multimillion dollar lawsuits according to the judge and the clients are usually provided with trivial awards.
After using his common sense a judge was applauded by tort reform advocates because he was able to defend consumers from rapacious class action lawyers. When it comes to travel awards, the vouchers are useless according to the head of a Tallahassee think tank which is a local institute. Worth hundreds of dollars a cruise can make do without a $10 discount. But there are also positive class action lawsuits. People who are genuine victims of a corporation's neglect or malfeasance certainly deserve to be justly compensated. Considering the current design of class action lawsuits they do comfort people but the wealthy ones and not the victims.
In Miami, a well known Mississippi lawyer together with a group of multi millionaire personal injury lawyers is waging a class action lawsuit against HMOs there. When it comes to their actions the personal injury lawyers know that the price of health care can increase rapidly but this does not mean that patient care will improve. From one lawyer came about a conversation with Wall Street financial analysts attempting to make them start a shareholder sell off and downgrade HMO stocks.
Absolutely no flaws exist with this logic. When HMOs face lawsuits their stock prices usually fall as a result and during this time they will be eager to agree to settlements done out of court and this allows the lawmen to generate millions in rewards without the need to go to trial. In a way these lawsuits cannot proceed without causing some harm to the country as said by a Yale University law professor. When a victory happens on their part then the managed care industry will be eliminated. A rise in health care costs to all Americans will be the indisputably result from this.
Motivation for congressional Republicans and Democrats to pass a meaningful toil reform act should be present in the numerous lawsuits filed against HMOs, all of which are driven by greed. Growing tired of paying for the retirement funds of these lawyers are the average working Americans and they no longer want such a responsibility while these people travel on their private jets and fish on their luxury yachts.