Classless Lawyers

[Shake n Blake]

(05-07-2016, 11:29 AM)michaelsean Wrote: IT'S A CEMETERY.  Of course it's filled with gravestones, and unlit with narrow roads. And as you said they have an extremely low speed limit posted, and yet you guys still decided to fly through there fully knowing all these things beforehand, and are upset that the cemetery didn't do a better job of protecting you guts from your stupidity.  Despite my conservative rep, I often find myself favoring with plaintiffs fairly often, especially when it involves something they couldn't know about or foresee.  This aspect of your case was completely forseeable, and I think the lawyer who you think shouldn't have been paid did a fine job of getting you the money he did.  He took $200,000 out of how much?

Pretty much this. I was hit by a drunk driver (which was no fault of my own) back in 2008. He ran a red light at 55 mph and t-boned me and my friend - who was driving. Luckily for me, the drunk was insured somehow despite multiple DUI's. I suffered a concussion and my chiropractor diagnosed me as having a 5% total body disability that would only get worse as I get older. I pretty much can't do any repetitive physical activity that involves twisting, otherwise every muscle in my back just flares up.

While it would be easy for me to have anger that I only wound up with 10k after 3 years of waiting, I realize that my injuries were partially my fault for not wearing a seat belt. Otherwise, I wouldn't have bounced around inside the car so much (I actually wound up in the back passenger seat).

Long story short, while I sympathize with Brad because he was a careless teenager when this happened, I don't feel too bad if he's not a multi-millionaire due to his and his friend's mistakes. Perhaps legally you can get someone to pay, but morally there is no one at fault other than the teenagers involved and perhaps - to an extent - the parents and whoever was hosting these big parties at a cemetery.