Why do defendants think they can get away with making up excuses to avoid responsibility for an accident they caused?
The insurance defense industry has spent a lot of time and money to create the myth that too many lawsuits are being filed and that many of them are frivolous. Unfortunately, the insurance defense industry has been successful in creating this myth. The jury pool has essentially been poisoned against injured parties by the insurance defense industrys propaganda. The insurance defense industry arrogantly believes that just about any old excuse will do to absolve defendants of responsibility for their negligent conduct since jurors have been preconditioned to assume that anyone filing a lawsuit is just looking to get some easy money. This problem is especially true when the injury to the plaintiff is not visible or obvious, such as a soft tissue back injury. Some jury skepticism regarding the injured parties claims is certainly appropriate. To be fair and impartial, however, the jury must apply the same level of skepticism to all alleged defenses to the claim. That is, of course, all inju
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