…and this is why my profession exists.
I recently came across a conversation on FB wherein someone was attempting to differentiate between “justice and gain” She said that justice had to do with enforcing contracts or rights, essentially, but personal injury claims were all about gain. She went on to say that people should just learn that “bad things happen” and should get over it.
I would invite her to read the story at the link above. Would it be all about gain if someone made this company – who is allowing its drivers to drive in excess of the legal time allowed – pay to help compensate this family’s heirs for the loss of their support system, for the college educations that won’t be paid for, the graduations that won’t be attended, for the weddings that will be missed, the birthdays that won’t be celebrated, the memories that won’t be created. In the end, isn’t this about enforcing rights, too?
For the person who thinks that these claims are all about gain, I hope that her family isn’t the next victim, or else she may find out just how wrong she is.
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