reluctant to bring suit

[kasia]

why are some of us so reluctant to bring suit? especially when we have such an obviously good case? why pass up a huge settlement? pay off your student loans, etc. you suffered the injury and thus *earned* the money. so why do we rarely sue?

my neighbor's pipe exploded when he was fixing the heater for his pool--he sued and won over a million.

has anything like this happened to you? did you sue? if not, why?

[deez nuts]

Some of us wouldn't even know where to start to file a suit?

[angel nympho]

Imagine the risk. If you don't get anything, then you just blew so much time and money on it and ended up way worse than when you began.

[kasia]

Originally posted by angel nympho@Sep 22 2002, 09:10 AM
Imagine the risk. If you don't get anything, then you just blew so much time and money on it and ended up way worse than when you began.
but many personal injury lawyers charge on a contingency basis. if you don't win, you don't pay a penny.

[angel nympho]

Originally posted by kasia@Sep 23 2002, 12:10 AM
Originally posted by angel nympho@Sep 22 2002, 09:10 AM
Imagine the risk.  If you don't get anything, then you just blew so much time and money on it and ended up way worse than when you began.
but many personal injury lawyers charge on a contingency basis. if you don't win, you don't pay a penny.
It's hard to lose a personal injury case, I bet. But if it's something like.. property damage or inconvenience, do you think it'd be worth the trouble?

[kasia]

Originally posted by angel nympho@Sep 23 2002, 12:21 AM
Originally posted by kasia@Sep 23 2002, 12:10 AM
Originally posted by angel nympho@Sep 22 2002, 09:10 AM
Imagine the risk. If you don't get anything, then you just blew so much time and money on it and ended up way worse than when you began.
but many personal injury lawyers charge on a contingency basis. if you don't win, you don't pay a penny.
It's hard to lose a personal injury case, I bet. But if it's something like.. property damage or inconvenience, do you think it'd be worth the trouble?
well, for your nads situation, if you were bleeding profusely, then i would say that it is worth the trouble. for property damage--it would depend on how it happened, by who, and how severe the damage is. i'm not sure what you mean by inconvenience...

[SunWuKong]

Originally posted by kasia@Sep 22 2002, 07:24 PM
well, for your nads situation, if you were bleeding profusely, then i would say that it is worth the trouble.
hahhah imagine if this was said to a guy...

[deez nuts]

Lol good one

I'm still trying to figure out the marketing geniuses that came up with the name Nads :blink:



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[kasia]

sometimes i think that asian-americans are less inclined to sue than their caucasian-american counterparts...does anyone else think this?



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[SunWuKong]

Originally posted by kasia@Sep 22 2002, 08:16 PM
sometimes i think that asian-americans are less inclined to sue than their caucasian-american counterparts...does anyone else think this?
by the way, remember my friend whose employment situation i told you about? she was actually reluctant to take legal action, but i was trying to convince her to do it and told her what you told me, and now her and some of her co-workers are going to sue.

[kasia]

so what drives this reluctance? not wanting to cause trouble? belief in karma and that the injury was thus somehow deserved?

[angel nympho]

Originally posted by kasia@Sep 25 2002, 05:51 AM
so what drives this reluctance? not wanting to cause trouble? belief in karma and that the injury was thus somehow deserved?
Maybe it's because they assume they won't get fair treatment... Or maybe it's because they have issues with trusting a WHITE lawyer or whatnot to handle the case.

Or maybe it's all in your head, and fact that white people outnumber asians by so many makes it seem that way.

[Arex]

Originally posted by kasia@Sep 22 2002, 06:16 PM
sometimes i think that asian-americans are less inclined to sue than their caucasian-american counterparts...does anyone else think this?
Well, working in K-town, I can say I haven't experienced any shortage of litigious Asians. Of course, I really have no basis for comparison. I would tend to think that Asians might be less inclined to sue, but I haven't seen any actual numbers to verify this gut feeling of mine. I wonder if, perhaps, our perceptions are simply skewed because of the Asian stereotype? Or, as nymph said, maybe it's just population thing.

Assuming that Asians are less likely to sue, I'd imagine most of it would simply boil down to a fear of or unfamiliarity with the legal system. Then there's the language issue. Who knows...

Alex