Posted On: March 25, 2008, 2:46 pm CDT

Posted By: Jon

Neither side in this debate is totally clean. Neither side deserves either of the labels. Plaintiff's bar does serve a very useful service of keeping the powerful in check. Sometimes they just get a little full of themselves and want to pretend that they are the saviours of the downtrodden and anyone else who might be able to make a prima facie case for a claim. Are Insurers worthy of the title Saints? Of course not. Insurers are in business to make money, and part of their effort will always go to trying to defeat the plaintiffs. Most often the effort to defeat is directed toward the cases that are overstated, or overblown or downright fraudulent. If both sides would spend time constantly trying to clean up their own houses, the world would be a better place and we would not have to listen to the empty posturings of popinjays who are fat on the money of the people.