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This is a spin off from the post concerning Cipro and how a tort suit forced the company to admit that it was causing problems with certain people.

Here's the thing. One of the planks of the Republican political party for the upcoming election is to make bring tort suits against companies like the manufacturer of Cipro much more difficult, if not impossible. Tort reform is big on the agenda of the republican party, a plank paid for by the insurance companie and drug companies and manufacturers. They're pouring millions of dollars into the campaigns of Republicans, including John McCain and many of the legislators who are up for re-election this year.

Meanwhile the trial lawyers are paying the Democrats to fight the bill.

Government by money. With enough money you can buy any election in the country, and it's perfectly legal, as long as you're a citizen of the US. Even locally I've had a local rich guy buy our city council so he can widen a road that the rest of the community doesn't want widened. He wants it widened so he can sell some land he has and have a lot of homes built in there. The builder won't do it without adequate roads. So this rich guy locally donated to have three guys put on our city coucil, got rid of the three guys who were doing what the people wanted, and now is in the process of laying the groundword to reverse the decision of te previous city council. All perfectly legal. Immoral? Arrogant? Yes! Illegal? No!

Something really needs to be done about this, from the local level on up to the national level. What ever happened to the issue of campaign finance reform? No one is talking about that any more.

I will say this. Of the two presumptive candidates for President, Obama isn't taking any money from corporations. McCain is taking it in hand over fist. Who do you think will be more independent concerning business concerns after the election? (Source: The Lowdown, a monthly newsetter from Jim Hightower.)

Dan

I have no idea what a tort suit is...

I thought I was the only one that talked about these issues. I personally don't like McCain, why? Well, the other night I turned on the MSNBC channel...you know the headline was? McCain said, "It does not matter when the troops come home." Well, I'm not voting for his heartless attitude I'll leave it at that. Not sure if I should feel that I'm not surprised or not.

All this is about is money, money, money...Bush is getting all the money he can until he gets out of the White House. Shoot people think that President of the United States make a lot of money, they only make $250,000---not much but on the other hand it would be nice to have that kind of money in my hands...lol

Thanks for posting this.

Had to delete the above post. I had some typos I had to fix. There are probably still some in this, but not as many. LOL

Tort suits are lawsuits where an entity (manufacturer, hospital, drug manufacturer, etc.) is sued to recover damages sustained when a faulty product or procedure or process renders an individual, or class of individuals harmed in some significant way. The plaintiff wants to proove that the defendent is guilty of some sort of malfeasance (that is some sort of bad behavior) that caused the harm, and also knew that the person or persons who would partake of the product, or would be affected by the process or procedure would be harmed by it.

Whew. And to think I did that off the top of my head. But I think that covers the definition of tort, pretty well. Dang lawyers talk funny, don't they?

Examples are doctors sued for malpractice; drug manufactures sued for making a drug that was harmful and not pulling it off the marketplace, even when they got information that it was harmful; and other sorts of product liability suits; and finally class action suits for such things as contaminated ground water from dangerous manufacturing processes. That ground water example is what the movie "Erin Brocavich" is about. Those examples are all tort liability lawsuits. Trial lawyers make their money by taking these suits on a contingency basis. They take the case and if they win, they take up to a third of the judgement, depending on the agreement their client(s) signed. They also take a lot of risk. They take on the expense of the lawsuit, any expert witnesses, depositions, court costs and on and on. And if they loose, they get nothing.

Hugs,

Dan

Thanks for the definition. Medical jargon fills up my brain these days...not enough room for lawyer jaron too.

That's what Andy is for :)

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