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In America, don't victims of injury caused by other people have to sue to get compensation for their medical bills if they're under-insured? That would mean it'
by lopmotr 8y ago
In America, don't victims of injury caused by other people have to sue to get compensation for their medical bills if they're under-insured? That would mean it's quite helpful to have lawyers offering their services right when you need it. In my country, hospitals will pressure you into taking money from the state accident compensation service when you're injured. So what's the difference? Patients are being informed of the assistance that's available to them.
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- ams6110 8y agoIf it were only compensation for their medical bills that would probably be OK. But the way it really works is that the the typical personal injury lawyer takes 30%-50% of the award as a fee, so they are highly incentivized to inflate the damages, often with "pain and suffering" claims that money really doesn't compensate for and are hard to disprove.
- lopmotr 8y agoSurely the solution to that is not having fewer victims sue the people responsible? Sure, that would reduce the total pain and suffering payments, but in an unfair way by giving it all to a few who get lawyers while the others get nothing, not even the cost of medical bills.