The
Trial Lawyer Class Action Scam
Trial Lawyers are Making Millions of Dollars While Consumers Get Coupons! If you won a dollar in a lawsuit and your lawyer got paid almost $1
million, that wouldn't be fair. Yet, that's exactly what's happening with
state class action lawsuits. A class action lawsuit allows similarly situated people to go to court
as a group. For instance, assume the electric company wrongfully charged
several customers an extra $500. Customers could sue as a "class," rather
than each one of them suing the electric company on their own. The initial purpose of class action lawsuits was to save time, allow a
court to more efficiently handle multiple similar disputes, and provide
access to the courts for people who have suffered losses. The Problem Like a school of sharks worked into a feeding frenzy, trial lawyers are
using state class action lawsuits to get rich on the backs of their
clients. Here are a few examples:
Class action filings increased by more than 1, 000 percent in state
courts over the past ten years. Because of their size, class action cases
can reap huge fees for trial lawyers, which is a major factor for the
increase of these cases over the past ten years. How can this be happening? State courts many times do not enforce the rules that govern class
actions. Specifically, they allow class actions to go forward and
eventually settle even though the class members may have been better off
bringing their own lawsuits or no lawsuit at all. Finding a Solution Congress is working on new legislation that would give back our legal
system to decent, honest Americans with real grievances. The legislation
would make it easier for a federal judge to rule on whether specific
circumstances warrant class action. Federal judges are better equipped to
handle complex class actions and more consistently decide when they should
be allowed. And federal courts are better equipped to try big lawsuits
that involve hundreds or thousands of people, from many different
states.
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