You may have seen or heard ads about tort reform sponsored by nonprofit organizations. The organizations responsible for these ads seem to be part of a grassroots movement to stem the tide of frivolous lawsuits and therefore the amount taxpayers have to spend for the legal system. This movement also wants to put more money back into consumer’s pockets by reducing skyrocketing insurance premiums. Both of these ideas sound great and you may be asking yourself, “How can I get on board and support this?”
Don’t believe it for a second. You have been duped. But before you feel foolish, consider this: you aren’t the only one. Countless other Americans have been deceived by these seemingly grassroots organizations. In truth, they are wolves hiding in sheep’s’ clothing and our mesothelioma lawyers have seen first hand just how devious their plan is.
Who is really funding these nonprofits organizations and paying for the ads you’ve been hearing and seeing? They are membership organizations and the members are big corporations and insurance companies. These companies want to take away your right to seek fair financial compensation for the wrong they have caused you and plan to cause in the future with more dangerous products yet to be released.
It stands to reason that those with the most to gain would be the ones funding this movement. It’s not your neighbor who was a vermiculite miner and now has crackling lungs. It’s not your father who worked his whole life at a plastics plant and liked the smell of benzene until his coworker and best friend died from leukemia. It’s not your aunt who lost her uterus from an infection or a brother-in-law that can’t stop smoking even though he’s had two heart attacks. It is the kind of company that knowingly exposed America to the dangers of things like asbestos, benzene, the Dalkon Shield, and nicotine so they could make a LOT of money. It’s the kind of company that is hatching a plot to limit their financial losses from a product they know will cause horrendous loss and death twenty years from now.
Do you want to be on their team?
Tags: defense tactics, tort reform
