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Limit frivolouse lawsuits

Why Is This Idea Important?: The scum suckers need to be knocked down a notch.

Why don't you limit the lawyers from filing frivolous lawsuits? When someone slips and falls on a grape in the supermarket, they sue and get paid off. This is ridiculous. When a doctor tries to save someone’s life and they die, they get sued. If you truly want to bring down the cost of health insurance, STOP THE LAWYERS that are adding hundreds of millions of dollars to the cost.

Oh yea, after thinking about my question for about two seconds I realized why you never mention the lawyers. The biggest campaign contributions come from lawyers.

And by the way these scum suckers add to the cost of EVERYTHING. It is time for people to be responsible for their own actions.

Submitted by ericettinger 3 years ago

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  1. tolynette

    Congress is full of lawyers. Mr. Obama is a lawyer. They all look out or each other to some extent, after money of course.

    3 years ago
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  2. npolimeni

    The problem is on how the court of jury will decide what is frivolous.

    Slipping on a wet floor can't be frivolous if the person was injured. In good supermarkets, there is someone going around cleaning spills. People can't be expected to walk around a market alert to dangers that shouldn't be there.

    Old folks can fall and break bones. Nothing frivolous about that. My grandfather dies six months after he fell and broke his hip. There's nothing frivolous about that...

    3 years ago
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  3. abonham

    I'm sure you've all heard the stories about the hundreds of accidental wrong-limb amputations in this country each year performed by doctors.

    Well, this really does happen.

    Whenever I hear proponents of limitting/stopping law suits, I always want to ask them:

    If you (god forbid) had a tumor in your right leg that had to be amputated to save your life, and you awoke from surgery to learn that they amputated your left leg instead (which had nothing wrong with it) - wouldn't you sue? Would you really think ill of anyone in this situation suing the medical providers responsible? Would you think the lawyer representing them was some kind of monster?

    I agree there are people who take advantage of the system and there always will be. But to react to them by closing the door for all the legitimate cases seems short-sighted to me.

    3 years ago
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  4. ericettinger Idea Submitter

    Apparently you don't know the definition of frivolous.

    3 years ago
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  5. ewillhite

    Average Americans do not have access to the courts anyway. The cost is prohibitive. The "frivolous lawsuit" jingle was likely started by a lawyer who was way down on the docket.

    The courts aren't for making laws, they are for interpreting them. Citizens should be taught how to defend themselves in court starting in elementary school.

    3 years ago
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  6. shssoichiro

    The courts just need to start throwing out cases they find frivolous. Obviously not all healthcare-related cases are frivolous, and not all frivolous cases are healthcare-related, but I don't even know why courts listen to cases like where a lady is suing McDonalds for getting fat, or someone sues them because he didn't read the "THIS COFFEE MAY BE HOT" on the cup or use his sense of touch to determine that it's hot before spilling the hot coffee all over his lap. These are the cases the court needs to reject.

    3 years ago
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  7. p40n

    Some countries have a very objective way to decide how much money is given to a victom. So much based on your age, pay, injury, etc. This can greatly reduce medical expenses because doctors do not have to recommend unnecessary tests.

    We also need a law prohibitting lawyers and law groups from giving money to politicians and political groups. How can you get fair laws when the lawyers are in bed with the politicians.

    3 years ago
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  8. stevensje

    If you check with Public Citizen you will find most malpractice suits are either thrown out of court or settled before they go to court. There are few lawsuits contrary to what you have been told by those who want insurance companies to pay little.

    Check it out.

    3 years ago
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  9. jordan.applewhite

    "Scum suckers" is not an appropriate term for an adult to use in civil discourse of policy.

    3 years ago
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  10. ericettinger Idea Submitter

    Sorry. I meant to say bottom feeding SCUM SUCKERS!

    3 years ago
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  11. apeiron

    How about we teach people how to spell?

    3 years ago
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