Orange County's entrepreneurs and investors who create our jobs cannot survive the cost of lawsuit abuse. And as a result jobs are lost, businesses fail and new opportunities are not pursued.
Most frivolous lawsuits come from that lack of personal responsibility.
To understand lawsuit abuse, you need to understand the relationship between frivolous lawsuits and higher prices. Case in point, a customer spills a cup of coffee in her lap and is burned. This customer turned around and sued the restaurant. I believe that an attorney should be compensated for their time with fair and just settlements. However, as an attorney it concerns me, that trial attorney's use the emotions of the client to sue for huge amounts of money, knowing full well that the client will only receive a nominal amount of the final settlement.