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(314) 500-HURTThis goes back thousands of years both in our culture and in every religion on the planet. If someone, a person or a
business, violates a safety rule in our community – if they go through a red light, if they are speeding, if they
act carelessly while driving, if they are not keeping a proper lookout, a truck driver is too tired or he violates a
rule, or a landowner has a dangerous condition of their property, or a lawyer or doctor does something wrong –
whenever these societal rules that we have are broken and it causes damages to someone, the word “justice” means
that those scales are balanced.
And when you balance those scales, you don’t partially balance those scales. You don’t say “Hey, I have a personal
view that pain and suffering damages should not be awarded, so I am only going to pay 80 percent of their damages.
Or I don’t think wage loss damages or future medical or other components…” No, that is not how that works.
If you work a 40 hour work week and your employer comes in at the end of the week and says, “You know what? I know I
owe you your paycheck. I am only going to pay you for 30 hours this week because I have a personal or philosophical
view point that you should only get 30 hours a week or 75 percent of your damages.” That is now how it works.
So when I am trying cases and we are presenting claims to insurance companies, to truck companies, to corporations,
to whatever entity we are pursuing a claim against, (and the person we are pursuing the claim against is the one who
violated the rule, the safety rule that is meant to keep all of us safe, whether it is kids or adults or whoever,)
when we pursue those claims, we insist on full compensation. Not “let’s not pay because the person had a back
treatment before.” We don’t say, “Hey We are not going to give you 100 percent because I don’t believe in pain and
suffering.”
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This page has been written, edited, and reviewed by a team of legal writers following our comprehensive editorial guidelines. This page was approved by Founding Partner, Gary Burger who has more than 30 years of legal experience as a practicing personal injury trial attorney. Gary’s robust legal knowledge is recognized by his peers as demonstrated by his industry awards and frequent Continuing Legal Education (CLE) lectures.
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