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Regardless if personal injury lawyers are getting huge sums of money in settlements

the clients receive nothing of this sort and instead have vouchers in their pockets. For beleaguered consumers, there is now a judge who can protect them. About $1 million in legal fees was requested by a New York City law firm that a judge criticized after it offered cruise ship passengers vouchers amounting from $10 to $60.

The amount that a law firm needed to settle a class action lawsuit against a cruise line in Fort Lauderdale was $2 million when the company inadvertently raised port docking charges for unwary passengers. When they arrived in the courtroom the firm asked for $1 million in legal fees. Dividing the request amongst themselves are four southern Florida firms after the judge sliced the $1 million request to slightly less than $300,000 and ordered them to do so in a 27 page ruling. Vouchers were given to the 80,000 plaintiffs they managed to corral into the lawsuit and the judge also ordered for 25 percent of the legal fees of the lawyers be paid this way.

Considering how the passengers are repeat travelers for the cruise the firm's lead lawyer said that the travel vouchers are not useless. Vouchers cannot be used to pay the bills and so what was wanted and deserved was cash. Without prior warning it is often the case says the judge that rounded up by personal injury lawyers as parties to multimillion dollar lawsuits are class action plaintiffs and awards given to the clients are often meaningless.

Tort reform advocates warmly applauded the judge for using common sense in defending consumers against rapacious class action lawyers. No value is seen in vouchers from travel awards by the head of a Tallahassee think tank which is a local institute. There is no use to taking an expensive cruise and getting a $10 discount. Obviously, not all class action lawsuits are bad. Some compensation is just right for the genuine victims of a corporation's neglect. Yet all too often these days, class action lawsuits are designed not to comfort the afflicted, but to enrich the already wealthy

Led by a renowned Mississippi lawyer, a group of multi millionaire personal injury lawyers are now waging a class action lawsuit against HMOs in Miami. According to the personal injury lawyers this move will result to health care prices going up without little or no improvement in patient care. Even the Wall Street financial analysts were spoken to by a lawyer and he attempted to make them downgrade HMO stocks as well as force shareholders into a sell off.

Such logic was perfect. As stock prices plummeted, the HMOs would be more likely to settle out of court meaning the lawyers could walk away with millions without working up a sweat. According to a Yale University law professor, there is no way that these lawsuits cannot do some damage to the country. If they're successful, the managed care industry basically will be eliminated. There is no question that this will then lead to an increase in health care costs to all Americans.

Motivation for congressional Republicans and Democrats to pass a meaningful toil reform act should be present in the numerous lawsuits filed against HMOs, all of which are driven by greed. There is a lot of average working Americans who have become tired of contributing to the retirement funds of these lawmen and they no longer want to help them travel in their private jets or fish in their luxury yachts.

by: Daniel Hernandez

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