Posted On: August 1, 2006, 2:18 pm CDT

Posted By: Chris

Hey, I agree that if it happened to me, through no fault of my own, that I would be pissed. But, I'd like to think that I have the integrity to not sue someone who also wasn't at fault, just because they have money that maybe the person who was at fault didn't.

And, I'd hope that a jury of my peers would not give away my money just because I can afford it, while the at-fault party can't.

One of the concepts that the U.S. brags about is that we have, and adhere to, the rule of law. But, every time a plaintiff attorney asks a jury gives away money based upon the ability to pay instead of true liability, or because the payor is "big business" while the claimant is just a "common man", and the jury does, that attorney and that jury are no better than the the tin-pan, third-world dictators we like to look down on.