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Shocking News: Insurance adjuster struck by bus isn't interested in tort reform!

By Steve Lombardi

Shocking News! Insurance adjuster struck by bus isn’t interested in tort reform!

Are you kidding!?!!!!!!

Have you heard this one before? We need more tort reform! There are too many greedy Plaintiffs using the courts for jackpot justice! Give them nothing! It’s our money!

Okay, now that I’ve got that out of my system, here is what happened in this accident.

An insurance adjuster with 46 years of experience adjusting claims is struck by a bus while crossing a busy city street at a cross walk. He’s injured, not fatally, but still seriously.

Or can any injury be serious? That’s the question he has to answer. Because I dare say for 46 years he’s probably been telling people no to answer that question. He’s probably argued about that issue in every case or nearly everyone. Okay, probably every one.

And what about the fault of the bus driver that struck him? Is there any failure that can be called negligence under the insurance industries proposed tort reform measures? If the pedestrian insurance adjuster could have seen the bus, they aren’t small, and if he was paying attention, could have jumped to safety, then is he the one at fault, relieving the bus driver of any liability?

And is it right that the insurance industry lobby’s nonstop to pollute the jury pool by prejudicing them before they ever enter a jury box? What if a jury just disregards the judge’s jury instructions of what the law requires? And in term gives him nothing but out-of-pocket expenses. Should juries be allowed to ignore the law in favor of what they want to happen?

And should any human being who experiences pain and suffering be awarded monetary damages? How about insurance adjusters? Are they immune to the concept of pain and suffering? I’ve listened to adjusters saying juries aren’t awarding pain and suffering damages; so does this negotiation tactic work when the “injured” plaintiff is an adjuster?

Does a different standard for valuing personal injury cases apply to you and me than to insurance adjusters?

Like I said, have you heard the one about the defense lawyer who lobbies for the tort reform groups that was seriously injured while walking into his law firm’s building to begin deposing a real plaintiff in a real case, after just leaving an insurance industry meeting about promoting more tort reform?

Originally posted at InjuryBoard by Steve Lombardi

Full post as published by Des Moines Personal Injury Lawyer on January 25, 2009 (boomark / email).