10/17/2004

More reason to hate lawyers
Filed under: General — Nobrainer @ 10:12 pm

As usual, the folks at the Weekly Standard have been producing some great work. If you decide to buy me something for Christmas, a subscription to the Weekly Standard would be great.

But let me return to the point at hand. Trial lawyers are making the country more dangerous for the normal people that live here. Apparently it all goes back to a concept called “liability without fault”. I’m not exactly sure what that means. It sounds like an oxymoron to me. Companies are at fault even if nothing goes wrong. But to summarize, vaccine makers get no credit for saving lives. Whenever there’s an adverse reaction to a vaccine (which there will be), they can expect to be sued and have a lot of money taken from them. Does this sound like a lose-lose situation to you? It should. It is. There’s nearly no reason to be a producer of vaccines.

Hopefully today’s lawyers will sue yesterday’s lawyers for destroying an industry… as well as people’s lives.