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Originally posted by Not Me
I don't see why. The punitives are allowed under the current law, they just go to the plaintiff and the plaintiff's counsel. If AG is right and giving the punitves to the state would reduce the incentive to seek punitives, it should make it less expensive to produce cars.
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Yes, but you would have the people who have the most to gain from puni's making the laws that determine what qualifies, how they're capped, how they're calculated . . .
No thanks. ("Yesterday, the Nebraska Legislature passed a statute recognizing an out-of-state address of incorporation as prima facie evidence of a wilful and wanton disregard of the rights and property of another.")
(ETA: A lawyer must always ONLY be pursuing her client's claim, and depending on that effort to produce her reward. As soon as a lawyer has her OWN claim, one that the client does not have, the lawyer can no longer be trusted to counsel on such things as settlement. At that point, their interests diverge, and are adverse.)
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