Whether you think that high liability insurance cost is due to trial
lawyers or to bad insurance company investments is usually a function of
your political orientaton, as illustrated by Jay here. He really just
wanted to take a shot at the Democratic ticket.

I wouldn't vote for a product liability attorney if he was running for city
council -- let alone the presidential ticket.

For example, Jay is "sure" that some "trailer trash" won 20 million
somewhere for tripping over something, but he doesn't cite an actual award
that was paid -- and you would bet that in his business, word of that
would spread fast.

You need to see EVIDENCE of this phenomenon? You really do need to read the
newspaper once in a while.

There's a huge case going on right now, here in Iowa City, where the father
of a girl who was injured in a car accident is suing the Highlander Inn
(another local hotel) for MILLIONS of dollars, because they (*gasp!*) served
the driver alcohol at a wedding reception!

Of course, there's a god-damned liability attorney behind it all, playing on
the grief of a father in an attempt to pad his own pockets, with no regard
to the fact that they're going to put the Highlander Inn out of business.
Everything the founders of that business have worked a lifetime to achieve
is now at stake, at incredible expense, and for what?

An accident.

Oh, but I forgot: "Accidents" don't happen anymore. Especially not when
the drive is under-insured. The idiot who drank himself into oblivion, and
then got behind the wheel, apparently doesn't have deep enough pockets to
satisfy these scum. (He also killed his best friend -- whose parents are,
of course, also suing.)

This is just ONE example, of the hundreds I (and anyone with a functioning
brain stem) could quote.

It's sickening, it's wrong, it's devastating small businesses -- and we ALL
pay for it.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"