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South Carolina Venue Crisis: State House Rally Scheduled
“South Carolina’s unbalanced liability laws equal fewer insurance carriers, higher premiums and businesses struggling to survive.”
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The small-town Republican lawyer-legislator contingent has always been one of those curious contradictions in the so-called conservative party: socially very conservative, desires small government, low taxation, pro-2A, generally pro-life, etc…..pretty much conservative in all areas except one major glaring exception: the ability to engage in highly profitable tort claim lawfare against large- pocketed corporations and anyone with a sizeable insurance policy. This is how the small town lawyer keeps the lights on – everything else is trimmings around the roast. The battle for true apportionment of comparable fault has been going on for decades, and this little cadre has always found ways to quietly place one loophole or exception after another into these laws, rendering them basically neutered. Keep your expectations low on anything resulting from the latest reform efforts.
Until organizations like MADD, aided at times by the media (to include FitsNews) and our dysfunctional legal system; drop the notion that every victim of DUI/BUI deserves a deep-pockets payday, there will be no justice for businesses like bars and convenience stores. I am not saying that victims of DUI/BUI and their families do not deserve compensation for losses and injuries, but to start going degrees away from the real culprit (the drunk driver or boater) so the victim or their family have deep or deeper pockets to pick, is just wrong. Who next, the automobile dealer who sold the car or boat to a person formerly convicted of DUI/BUI? The dealer who sold a car or boat to a person known to have at some time, had an alcohol or drug issue?
Where does it end?