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Lawsuits are lottery tickets that are ruining society and nothing more.

Are you talking about lawsuits in general or specifically buggy softwear lawsuits? I ask because almost 10 years ago I was hit by a moving van driven by a diabetic who had a history of causing accidents and fled one state to another because an arrest warrant had been issued with his name on it. While I was in a coma the docs told my family it'd be a miracle if I survived, NOT!!! The accident left me with a TBI, Traumatic Brain Injury. Because of the injury I spent more than a year in therapy with three different groups and I still have many problems. Especially with memory, my short term memory is almost shot and long term memory isn't much better. My communications skills are bad as well, I've had to use my dictionary which I keep at hand a few tymes while typing this (and it took about half an hour typing this). The hospital stay and initial therapy I got at the hospital ran to more than $100,000. And the last tyme I was in therapy, about 6 months in therapy 7 years ago, was $1500 a week. I evidentually had to stop the therapy because I couldn't afford to pay for it and insurance wouldn't pay. If it weren't for the fact that while I was in the coma my family got an attorney to hold the company the driver was working for when he hit me responsible there's no way they could of paid my medical bills. As it turned out the company's insurance decided to settle before the case ever went to trial as there was plenty of evidence the driver was responsible and the company was negligent in hiring him. At the tyme I was hit I was a college student majoring in Computer Engineering, but I came to realize while living in a rehab house after leaving the hospital that if I wanted to continue with it then I'd have to start all over again. And that's if I could understand and apply it. Now I don't know what to do.

I wish people would stop whining about not being able to FORCE me to pay for genocide and then show me pictures of Superman in a wheelchair and tell me I'm not being compassionate because I don't support the embryonic Holocaust.

I'd like government to stop robbing me to pay for research it has no business doing. Not that I don't believe in it, as a matter of fact I strongly believe in stem cell research, but any money I get I want to be able to control how I spend or donate it. Actually as I'm a Traumatic Brain Injury, TBI, survivor I not only strongly support stem cell research into treatments for TBIs but am also willing to be a guinea pig in clinical trials.

It should be noted that it is not just patients who have been paralyzed that can potentially benefit from this work. Other potential therapies to come out of stem cell work include treatments for heart disease, retinal vision loss disorders, Parkinson's disease, Cystic Fibrosis and many others.

I'd like to see something come from stem cell research on treatments for Traumatice Brain Injury, TBI, survivors seeing as how I'm one.

Unfortunately, westerners in general don't seem to grasp the concept that knowledge isn't given or taught. It has to be something that the individual grasps on their own right.

While it maybe that a person has to grasp knowledge, that it's not just given, knowledge can be "taken away". As a TBI, Traumatic Brain Injury , survivor I have personal experience in validating this. Amoung other things because of my injury my memory is bad, worse than it was prior to the accident that caused my injury.

The truth is that often, events that we perceive as being "negative" have a greater positive outcome that anyone can anticipate.

I don't just consider my accident as "negative", it is very much negative. I "survived" a TBI, Traumatic Brain Injury. It's been more than seven years since and I have yet to see one positive, even now I wish I had died. You could say I'm bitter and you'd be right, the thing is is that I couldn't even wish this on the person who caused the accident, I couldn't be that sadistic.

Another judge (or a panel or a jury) decides whether the suit was frivolous if the winning side requests it.

Why would the winning side, if it's the plaintiff, request a decision on if the case was frivolous? The only tyme I can see the winning side saying it was frivolous is if it's the defendents.

If the suit is judged to be frivolous the original presiding judge would be punished somehow for letting a frivolous suit go forward (he should not have ever let it get to trial). The defendents lawyers have to pay for the entire cost of the trial and the cost of the panel.

If a judge were penalized for not ruling a case was frivolous what would stop them from ruling that all cases were frivolous? Afterall if they thought they may be penalized they may decide not to risk the possibility by ruling they were all frivolous. The only thing this would do is strengthen the hands of those who caused harm, the defendents, who already get away with murder.

If the suit is not ruled frivolous the winning side pays for the panel.

Why should the defendent, if the winner, be made to pay more? Shouldn't it be the looser if anyone?

Falcon

Oh, btw, I do have some experience with personal injury lawsuits, several years ago while riding my bike after my class I was hit by a moving van. While I was in a coma the docs told my family it'd be a miracle if I lived, NOT!!! My sister told me after I came out of the coma, I have vertually no recollection of the months before the accident or of while I was in the hospital, I was screaming at everyone to let me die. Now, I am a TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) survivor, Brain Injury Check List though I've wished I wasn't, all too frequently I wish I had died. Come to find out later the person who hit me had a record of causing other accidents, being hospitalized, and had an arrest warrent issued in another state. My medical bills were more than $125,000, add another $1500 per week for therapy for more than a year. I still haven't gotten all the therapy I've needed but had to quit because I couldn't afford any more. Allow corporations to do anything they want to make a profit, including distroying lives?

That sucks. You've had very bad luck. According to NHTSA statistics, on average bicycles are 10 times safer per mile traveled than cars. The problem with statistics is that while averages are dependable, the individual data points include extreme outliers. At 3 collisions in one year, you're probably out around 3 or 4 sigma. :-(

Yeah, just as the statistics say bike riding may be safer, but it's the pits when you're one of the small number at the other end. My injury makes it even more so, I'm a survivor of a TBI.

Background:

"Neuropsychological impairments caused by brain injury may be characterized in terms of three functional systems (1) intellect which is the information-handling aspect of behavior; (2) emotionality, which concerns feelings and motivations; and (3) control, which has to do with how behavior is expressed."

"Brain damage rarely affects just one of these systems. Rather, the disruptive effects of most brain injuries, regardless of their size or location, usually involve all three systems."

-- Source: Neuropsychological Assessment, 2nd Ed., 1983,
by Muriel D. Lezak
Brain Injury Checklist
Or Brain Injury Checklist
And the homepage:
Brain Injury Resource Center
Or Brain Injury Resource Center
Falcon

That sucks. You've had very bad luck. According to NHTSA statistics, on average bicycles are 10 times safer per mile traveled than cars. The problem with statistics is that while averages are dependable, the individual data points include extreme outliers. At 3 collisions in one year, you're probably out around 3 or 4 sigma. :-(

Yeah, just as the statistics say bike riding may be safer, but it's the pits when you're one of the small number at the other end. My injury makes it even more so, I'm a survivor of a TBI.

Background:

"Neuropsychological impairments caused by brain injury may be characterized in terms of three functional systems (1) intellect which is the information-handling aspect of behavior; (2) emotionality, which concerns feelings and motivations; and (3) control, which has to do with how behavior is expressed."

"Brain damage rarely affects just one of these systems. Rather, the disruptive effects of most brain injuries, regardless of their size or location, usually involve all three systems."

-- Source: Neuropsychological Assessment, 2nd Ed., 1983,
by Muriel D. Lezak
Brain Injury Checklist
Or Brain Injury Checklist
And the homepage:
Brain Injury Resource Center
Or Brain Injury Resource Center
Falcon