The study in this article fails to address the more disturbing issue: Most of the insurance money (apparently) goes to lawyers (both sides), and very little to those injured.
Peter Wilson Simi Valley, Calif.
The numbers in the story pose a question. First, one reads that “about 85 percent of [1,452] cases were settled out of court, and plaintiffs lost four-fifths of those that did go to trial.”
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