"Denny" wrote in message
ups.com...
Of course, a big ticket manufacturer is in a different ball game... Non
the less, if more businesse in the Untied States were structured so
that there are no deep pockets to go after, there would be a marked
diminishment in frivolous suits, including against the big guys...

It could be solved just as easily by changing the law as it is in the U.K.
Loser Pays.

There are attorneys who make a career out of looking for deep pockets
to sue - for a huge chunk of the judgement of course - knowing that
they will lose 9 suits out of every 10... But, that tenth suit is like
winning the lottery, Christmas, and having your rich uncle leave you
everything, all rolled into one... If the first nine deep pockets
aren't there the tenth suit is going to be fewer and farther between...
Grin right back at ya... Denny

California just had a ballot initiative to get rid of a law that the hippies
in Sacramento wouldn't repeal. It allowed lawyers to on behalf of the
public, while all they really did was line their own pockets. One firm, The
Trevor Law Group was put out of business and it's lawyers disbarred because
of the way they used this law to go after small businesses and threaten them
with a law suit for some minor infraction or other. Is it any wonder so
many politicians are lawyers and that the Trial Lawyers are such big
contributors to the Democrats?