Personal Injury Law

Trial Lawyers - Keeping the Court House Doors Open for Consumers and Individuals

By Benjamin J. Sansone, Esq.

The documentary below is being showcased at the Sundance Film Festival and sheds light on the often distorted view of the American Civil Justice System.

Personal injury and trial lawyers in Missouri and across the country often get bad press from corporate propaganda because large corporations and insurance companies hate having to pay regular people for harms they cause. Oftentimes they take cases out of context and try to make the case that most injury awards are too high. No case displays this more than the McDonald's Hot Coffee case - it has been painted by corporate America as the poster boy for ridiculous verdicts.

As a St Louis personal injury attorney I have seen first hand that the McDonald's coffee case comes up in most jury selections as a topic to explore people's opinions of the civil justice system. Amazingly, most people have adopted the story insurance company's want you to believe, that some silly lady spilled coffee on her self and got too much money.

Full post as published by Missouri Injury Law Blog on December 02, 2010 (boomark / email).