"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message nk.net...
"C J Campbell" wrote in message
If one tries to establish a reason for the high cost of general aviation
in the United States, at any level you view, one has to factor in the
presence of the American trial lawyer into the cost equation.
Without lawyers influencing the cost factors, the price of the
airplanes, all peripherals, and even the cost of the training would be
much more reasonable... Blah, blah, blah.


As mr Sondrecker requested- let's have some facts. Opinionated
diatribe by Henrique and others without facts is prety much the order
of the day for them and their ilk. PLEASE-give me some specifics!!!
There aren't any. The American judicial system based upon the
centuries-old concept of a jury of one's peers is second to none.

FACT: The American Insurance Association published a report " Premium
Deceit: The Failure of 'Tort Reform' to Cut Insurance Prices"
(March,2002), which found, following a 14 year study, that there was
no relation between tort restrictions and insurance rates.
This study was consistent with the National Association of
Attorneys General:
"The facts do not bear out the allegations of an explosion in
litigation or in claim size, nor do they bear out the
allegations of a financial disaster suffered by property/casualty
insurers today. They finally do not support any correlation between
the current crisis in availability and affordability of insurance and
such litigation explosion. The available data indicate that the
causes of, and therefore solutions to, the current crisis lie with the
insurance industry itself."

Ernst & Young and the Risk and Insurance Management Society's report
of business liability costs recently found such costs to be miniscule
and the lowest in over a decade. The study found liability costs to
be in steep decline to only $4.83 for every $1000 in revenue in 2000.
2001 RIMS Benchmark Survey, (2002).

The United States is the most competitive nation in the world and
companies with high liability exposure are having great success
innovating and competing in world markets. Institute form Management
Delopment, 1998 Report. In a study of US manufacturing
competitiveness, teh Congressional Office of Technology Assessment
found that the greatest influences on US competitiveness were capital
costs, quality of human resources, technology transfer and technology
difficulties. Liability laws were not even mentioned as a factor.
The business-backed Conference Board stated affirmatively in its 1987
report that product liability laws do not have significant adverse
effects on competitiveness. In more than 2/3s of the surveyed
companies, liability costs were less than 1 per cent of total costs.

Most notably, the Board found "Where product liability has had a
notable impact--where it has most significantly affected management
decision making-- has been in the quality of the products themselves.
Managers say thet products have become safer, manufacturing procedures
have been improved, and labels and use instructions have become more
explicit." Weber, Nathan "Product Liability: The Corporate Response,
Research Report #893.

I could go on and on and on, with facts, not hysterical hyperbole and
repetition of tired, unsubstantiated propaganda by gullible sheep.
GET SOME FACTS AND THINK FOR YOURSELF, FOR A CHANGE!!!

Want to criticize John Edwards for being an "ambulance chaser,' taking
frivolous cases? Give me the name of the case and/or the facts of the
case, and let's see!

Frivolous lawsuits- there is a procedure to deal with them. See Rule
11, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and the stste rules patterned
after it in most states.

Loser pays?? Yes; I'll bet the coffee lady would have loved that
rule!

Oh, by the way...I'm a trial lawyer, and proud of it.