And the hot ones are Mia. I spent all last week in the hospital. Where’d they go? Same place as the hot servers I guess. But you’re right. Blood. Sick people. Etc.
That said two years good pay and a 3 day work week is nice
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That said two years good pay and a 3 day work week is nice
Somewhere approaching zero.
PI=personal injury. Even if they don't try cases, they argue motions in court a lot or show up on status calls.
Cousin's oldest kid is a nurse. She wanted to be an ER nurse from the time she was a little kid. After about a year at Eskanazi, the stories about blood everywhere and gun shot wounds began to wane. She's a traveling nurse now. 6 month contract at different locales. Her husband is in medical IT and can work from anywhere. They're both making bank and she's happy to be out of the ER and doing boring nurse stuff at $80-90/hr.
Hey, it worked for my sister-in-law. Snagged a doctor after divorcing her first husband.
If prices have stayed the same that long, doesn't it prove competition is working?
Otherwise prices would have gone up like everything else?
I'll tell you about the Thai traveling nurse that accompanied me from Italy to Kokomo next time we have lunch.
@mcmurtry66 this is what we’re up against. Dumb dumb dumb. I could explain this concept to my 10 year old daughter and she would understand it before Hick.
This is why we need to start Baddie Babes on Fox. Nobody cares about polices. It’s all emotions. The target audience is solid 5s up to 8s. We already got the hot chicks locked up and we have zero chance of swaying an ugly fat 3. Liberals have them locked up.
Several show concepts.
Day 1 We explain how inflation is increasing the cost of clothes, nails, and etc. Bring out a divorcee who couldn’t keep up her maintenance and style and explain how a young expiring PETA lawyer stole her husband because of it.
Day 2 is Bitcoin = Botox. I’m probably going to be the star of this show.
Day 3 is abortion. We’re going to bring out a miserable single 60 year old who is hurting because she had abortions and is lonely. Then we hit them with young mom’s who were thinking about having abortions, but kept their babies. Then like f#cking Oprah “You get a baby, you get a baby, you get a baby”. Babies everywhere. Those bitches will love it.
Day 4 I’ll talk about my love for cats. They’ll relate.
Day 5 Gomez talks self defense and Jesus.
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True story: my company (and another company we subsequently bought) was sued because a guy got off a fork truck, climbed a mezzanine, stuck his arm inside an auger that had become jammed, and lost his arm. Our companies were sued because we had worked on the power, controls, and hydraulics of the machine when it was installed -- 8 years prior to the incident.
It languished for roughly 2 years. How, I have no idea. Finally, against my wishes, our insurance company settled with these scumbags for a "nuisance settlement."
I'm sure there are some PI attorneys who are decent people. But, as a group, I generally see them as payday lenders in a suit. And I just have virtually no respect for our whole tort industry -- especially when they try to tell us it's about delivering justice.
2 years?!!!! that case was still a baby. that case is a mess. it's worker's comp bc the guy got hurt on the job. then they want to know if there was a product defect so they could make a third party pi claim and obviously whether the auger had been fcked with in the years since installation etc. that's a mess of a case. comp is easy as most places have a meat chart that prescribes the value of your injury. back the most. a toe not so much. etc. then there will be liens and setoffs involved if there is a third party cases in relation to the comp payout etc.
it's a racket of a business for many out there flipping bullshit soft tissue injuries, but there are also people whose lives and the lives of those they love who are permanently altered through the negligence of businesses and no fault of their own. trial lawyers are the greatest regulators of all. and before you hold them in too much contempt i promise you that is as miserable of a way to make a buck as anything going. not an easy job at all
My favorite attorney of all time. Frank Cirillo. Connecticut.
God he hated his job, his practice, and most of the free world. Said the same thing about it just being about advertising. That was mid 2000’s.
I think he finally retired. Or he’s dead. I have no idea. Great phone call though. Five mins settling four cases and an hour shooting the shit.
why do you think i have half a dozen shitty businesses. hey guys. i have an idea for a business. IN!!!! ME TOO!! YEAH I'M IN!!!!
One of us is going to have to take Val down a notch or two. I love how she says Big Beautiful Guns.
How have you not added her shirt quote to your sig?
I get it.
And, after many years of careful observation and consideration, I’ve decided to hold them in contempt.
We have customers who deal with patent trolls and ADA suits.
Around 2015 we had a string of clients who were hit with lawsuits regarding the search function on their eCommerce sites. The claim was a patent infringement that started with IBM. When IBM was fighting it, they went after every large user if the software to pressure IBM to settle.
Once a year, we'll get a call from a client who has been sued about not being able to use the tab key or a contrasting color not being appropriate. It’s by the same blind attorney that sues everyone over ADA complaints and makes a nice living getting settlements from folks who don't have the correct ADA compliance language on the site.
The claims are just to get some go away and leave me alone money.
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You should try med mal. The doctor decides whether to settle. Not the carrier. Fing brutal
The BIPA suits here in Illinois are out of control. They finally amended the statute at least to make it per person damages and not per incident.
How did she get "rich as f*ck?" She steal from her campaign?
It's an actual thing. We have someone who stays busy billing around 1,000 hours/year doing ADA audits for clients who want to be able to say they have a 3rd party expert as part of their commitment to following ADA laws.
That’s nuts.
From a dollars and cents standpoint, settling with the auger dumbass made sense. From a morality standpoint, I’d have fought it as far as I needed to in order to find a sensible judge who saw it for the shakedown it was.
I think the settlement was $15k. And I’m sure that was cheaper than any possible outcome from contesting it.
We need better judges who are more willing to look at something like that and tell them get that crap out of their docket.
if the settlement was $15k you won. that's nuisance money for a lost wing
lost arm at the shoulder is worth about $140k in comp. now it varies by state but generally. so maybe this guy pulled $150k for no arm. that ain't shit brother. oh and the lawyer's fees and costs. maybe he walked away with a hundred k.
Yeah, but he wasn’t even working for us.
We were just one of the contractors who performed part of the installation 8 years prior - and there were no issues with the work we did. Had nothing to do with it.
And he gets $15K from us for it. It’s disgraceful.
Quite frankly, in a just world, he wouldn’t be entitled to Work Comp either…not for something that was clearly his own fault.
Surely you realize that most people would not see it this way.
He should’ve been paying us (or our insurance company, in this case) for filing a frivolous lawsuit. And if the judge had 10 brain cells, he’d have tossed it the first time he read the complaint.
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Without knowing the facts I have no idea re whether it was frivolous. I know $15k is nothing. So I guess in that way I’ve been poisoned. Cameras help immensely
You know enough facts. Our work had zero to do with the thing getting jammed up. Nobody even really tried to make the case that it did. They had an engineer examine everything. His report didn’t even mention the part we played.
Let me put it this way….I don’t know what a lawyer or judge who has no knowledge about these machines or the kind of work that goes into making them work would say. They’re operating from a total dearth of technical understanding.
But anybody who does know about these things would laugh at the suggestion that there was merit to our being included in the list of defendants.
The shysters won't let us use the British Rule. That would stop most of the nonsense.
I could not agree more, good sir.
Forget damages caps. Just put in Loser Pays provisions and it would definitely help to weed out most of the game-the-system lawsuits.
The judge is what it is. You don’t get a specialized judge. The experts convince the judge. I’m sure the engineer’s report disappointed the plaintiff and that’s why the case settled for peanuts.
I know your feelings and I don’t discount them. P lawyers fund everything they do. They take risk with every case. Time. Aggravation. And their own money. I know a lot about those factory, manufacturing type cases. That lawyer lost his ass settling for $15k. I know it doesn’t seem that way but you won
There are mechanisms like that in certain places. Offer of judgment that is actually for fees and not just costs etc. but remember the p is usually some poor hoosier fighting a well heeled insured d. It’s why I’ve been a hardcore democrat most of my life. I believe in it. I just can’t stand progressive bs
We weren’t the only defendant. That’s just what he got from us.
He was harassing all kinds of parties to get money for a client who violated company safety policies and made the brilliant decision to stick his arm in a powerful machine…instead of simply reporting that it was malfunctioning.
Sounds like you had shitty lawyers then. $15k was less than the cost of defense and risk so they said f it
If a verdict (or settlement) is just, that’s fine. I’m not talking about situations that warrant appropriate damages. I have no interest in making obstacles for ordinary people to receive justice.
But that isn’t the system we have.
