Posted On: May 15, 2008, 7:37 am CDT

Posted By: Dread

Since it's never about the money, why do we continue to enrich survivors after a tragedy, particularly when they weren't dependent on the deceased? These awards don't "punish" anybody, they only serve as an income source for plaintiff lawyers. There were so many claimants, nobody is getting anything substantial except the contigency fee monsters. Liability assessment in this country has become a prostituted concept to make sure somebody pays regardless of fault. Otherwise, the poor attorneys would go hungry. What crock. Sometimes I think having too much liability insurance does nothing more than make you a target for opportunists.