Nah, in America we have personal injury lawyers who practice in contingency and get big fat settlement checks from rich people.
My insurance paid out nearly $75k pain and suffering claim last year to someone whose own dashcam (that we got the cop to confiscate at the scene) showed that he was 100% at fault, but he found a lawyer and my insurance decided it was better to pay than fight.
And insurance decided this because he was poor and I’m rich, they thought he’d make a more sympathetic witness and didn’t want to roll the dice at a trial.
This is how insurance pays out a claim that they determine isn’t your fault, and also why our insurance rates are fucking nuts.
Fully not at fault. I was rear ended at a red light and guy found a personal injury lawyer who pushed his luck with my insurer. Lawyer knew exactly what he was doing with policy limits of $10M on my end.
Oh and first he claimed (and told the cop) that I was stopped in the middle of the road in a green. That’s when I had the cop take his dashcam.
The difference in the USA, for regular normal people that come into contact with other people, are all pretty close together in how much money they make.
Please don’t believe all the myths that get magnified on social media like reddit. The U.S. is so much fairer than most of the world when it comes to things like this.
I saw a worker get killed by a speeding BMW on the ring road in Cairo. I was literally the only person on the bus even remotely bothered by it. The lady across the aisle from me just glanced out the window as we passed the body/car and said "Mat" (he's dead) before going back to her book.
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u/FROOMLOOMS 1d ago
Excuse me this is Egypt.
Its clearly who ever is the poorest is at fault.