The Problem
Our legal system should be respected and work for everyone. Instead, it has become a weapon too often used to extort payment rather than deliver justice.
How did this happen? Many factors have led to this abuse and a legal system that now works more for personal injury lawyers than for the average person.
- Personal injury lawyers aggressively advertise and lure people to lawsuits with promises of getting an easy payday.
- Too many people have a “sue first” mentality, jumping to filing a lawsuit in the case of an accident or slight rather than taking personal responsibility for their actions or resolving the issue out of court.
- Lawsuit awards for questionable lawsuits and that bear no relation to the actual injury or damage caused encourage even more lawsuits.
- Defendants settle lawsuits, even if they’ve done nothing wrong, because the cost of legal fees and risk of big awards is too high to risk fighting back. This encourages even more lawsuits.
- A powerful and vastly wealthy trial bar pushes laws that incentivize lawsuits and create new ways and reasons to sue.
It’s a cycle of lawsuit abuse that costs every one of us.
Lawsuit abuse increases the price we pay for goods and services, consumes valuable tax dollars, increases health care costs, forces small businesses to shut their doors, and threatens jobs and our economy.
When our system is abused, we all pay, and we all lose. It’s time for us to fix this problem. Together we can fight to end lawsuit abuse.
