Comments on: Community swimming pool closes due to lawsuit

By: al

al — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:06:27 +0000

we are trying to limit our liability in potential future lawsuits. I wonder if the pool moved the assests to a different corporation and leased the pool management and operation to a different corporation, if the hurt party could only have sued the managament company and the pool and building assets would have been safe. Also, didn’t the pool have insurance to settle?

By: Earl Wheber

Earl Wheber — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:58:23 +0000

You are making a nobel effort here and telling the truth but nothing will change because of it because lawyers dominate all 3 branches of government as well as both major political parties and this is known as the legal caste. A political approach is needed to get lawyers out of government before you will see any changes. One of the most obvious indications of this is Obamas’ so-called health care reform where he has attack insurance companies but has refused to even consider the medical mal-practice crisis (doctors being sued and causing them to do unneeded expensive testing to try and protect them against lawsuits). Of course the doctors insurance against medical mal-practice has gone way up so that, along with the expenses of the unecessary testing, is passed along to the patients. Read bestseller book “How to Avoid Probate” by Norman Dacey (at your public libary) and the chapter on lawyers in the book!

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:11:14 +0000

It is being blamed on the political left by posters in here because it is a hard fact that whenever attempts are made legislatively to act against frivolous lawsuits, it is the elected officials hailing from the political left who, acting on special interest marching orders from the lawyers’ lobbyists that support them, roadblock such reform and make false claims that their actions are to protect the little guy.

By: Eric Rehwaldt

Eric Rehwaldt — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:43:25 +0000

Lawyers are destroying our country. Let’s face facts…..this country was founded upon GREED, plain and simple. We took it from the folks that lived here and then told them they were all FREE Americans with rights and laws. As we yelled FREEDOM, we chained a couple milion people and splitt their families to weaken them. We have a pattern of taking whatever we want from whomever we want it from. Read the particulars of the Treaty of Guadalupe, signed between USA and Mexico in 1848. We added 66% to our country. They gladly signed…..at gun point and the threat we would destroy their new government and Mexico city, AGAIN. Now we are screwing OURSELVES and we have the gall to say “oh gosh, it’s these damn lawyers” Without a million greedy pigs looking for a free lunch, we have NO frivolous lawsuits. So if you want to blame someone, start like I did, by looking at the face in the mirror.

By: MBlad

MBlad — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:31:47 +0000

I don’t understand this at all.

First off, did the pool owner have insurance? If she did, then what was the problem? That her rates would increase? OK, that happens, but to close the pool because of it?

If she didn’t have insurance, then the lawyers (and I am one) could not force her to settle (though she would have to pay their fees to defend the case). If she believed she was not to blame (and according to the way the story is written, she wasn’t to blame), then she should have taken it to trial. If she was right, then the jury (made up of ordinary citizens, not lawyers) would have likely agreed with her, and that would have been the end of it.

Or is there more to this story? Was there a sharp object on the floor of the pool that cut his foot (so that the injury was due to that, and not to the man running)? The article just doesn’t say.

I will tell you that there certainly are frivolous suits, for sure, but if you make it too hard to sue for injuries, you remove the motivation for safe spaces; this has been proven time and again. Go to a country where civil remedies are not available, and you will see the lack of safety in public spaces.

That’s my two cents.

By: Robert Tulloch

Robert Tulloch — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:28:56 +0000

Legal bottom feeders action in collusion to split the fees.

Most trial attorneys are vile slime who produce nothing but sadness and profits for their own pockets.

By: Erut

Erut — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:17:26 +0000

Our local community pool was sued by the father of boy (a lawyer), who cut “the tip” of his finger off (about 1/4 inch – really more of a deep cut) when they were horsing around on some chaise lounges. The boys had been warned multiple times to stop their activities but resumed again after a short period. Luckily our insurance backed us in fighting the lawsuit, and it became apparent the boy’s story justifying the pool liability was fabricated by his father in cross examination. The lawsuit was thrown out; but the pool, and our insurance company was not compensated for our legal costs. The family didn’t even withdraw from the coop pool while they were suing. They were quite open that they were suing simply to get money “because they could”. As a board member, I wanted to kick them out and counter sue but we were advised not to. People like should pay a price for bringing frivolous lawsuits.

By: Chris Lopata

Chris Lopata — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:16:05 +0000

An extremely unfortunate and devastating situation for the community. Though I’m a little perplexed as to how any of you can connect President Obama’s actions in the current economic crisis to the level of frivolous lawsuits in this country. Do you mean to tell me these types of lawsuits didn’t happen in the eight years under President Bush?

By: Tom Warsinske

Tom Warsinske — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:55:29 +0000

Typical right wing diatribe. One greedy guy, a seedy lawyer and suddenly it’s Obama’s fault. Did you miss the speech where he advocated tort reform with the health care bill. I wouldn’t be surprised if the both the guy and his lawyers were republican, the party of greed. How about the community ponying up the money to buy the pool instead of whining about not getting something for free.

By: Earl SMith

Earl SMith — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:08:17 +0000

The “primary” story is certainly one that should concern us all. Its not about the lawyers or anyone else. It about personal GREED!!!! We never want to accept blame for our own actions….we as a society continue to miss the point!!!

This is even more clearly demonstrated by the ascertions that this is due to the lawyers, democrats and the president!!!! Who are these people who continue to blind themselves with conspiracy theories for which the government and the presidecy are responsible for every negative action taken by individuals. This is a “mind set” that allows for no one being persoanlly responsible. This level of ignorance is completely unacceptable and intolerable.

Please people put away the political agenda and focus on common decency and accountability!!!