Bill would have a negative impact on injury victims in civil lawsuits

Lubbock, Texas (KCBD) – A Lubbock lawyer says that a draft law defined in the state legislature would bring the profits of insurance companies through the people in Texas. Last week, the business members and seriously injured Texans defined in front of the House Bill 4806 in front of the Justice and Civil Law Committee and Civil Law.

Valerie Malone, a lawyer for personal injury, says that House Bill 4806, who is currently pending on the committee, adapts the insurance industry against everyone else.

“It is the greatest rewriting of civil law in the state of Texas and the civil

His author, representative Greg Bonnen from Galveston, says that the legislation would reduce the tendency to increase the costs through its adoption and survival.

“This legislation will not prevent sacrifices of all kinds of abuse, access to the courts or to receive full compensation for their injuries, and it is ensured that injured parties can be fully done and at the same time some lawyers and their collaborative medical providers prevent the legal system from taking out,” he said.

Malone says that if the bill goes over, future customers, like a young girl who is shaped by a dog, could be used in devastating positions.

“Now we have to unanimously unanimously have this pain and the suffering under the jury. So let's assume that you have a holdout juror who says that you know what:” I don't know. I think instead of being $ 195,000, I think it should be $ 175,000. “Guess what our seven -year -old gets?

Parents such as Jason and Jessica Sprague, whose one -year -old son was killed when a truck driver used up their car, had limited their damage to updated definitions such as those of mental fear.

“Our resistance would be punished and our grief would reduce everything for the lie that will reduce the insurance premiums. This way of thinking appreciates profits over life. This is the way of thinking that has killed our son,” he said. “If the company who killed Colton wanted to have lower insurance premiums, they shouldn't have hired drug users to drive their truck.”

Dick Trabulsi, chairman and co -founder of Texans for the reform of the lawsuit, says that the agency believes that the law is fair.

“It would be no sense for the entire business world, and it is the entire business world of Texas that supports this legislation to propose laws in which one of us or one of our relatives would not be able to access the courts, to have an appropriate and fair procedure for the approximate cause of injuries and to receive a complete remuneration,” he said.

Malone argues that insurance companies use the business area for their own agenda.

“It is because the” too many claims “or” this protects the big company “, and that is not, that's just not true. Companies do not pay these claims, insurance companies. But they present companies … right?

The most moving testimony to the invoice came from Brianna Blake from Midland. She was seriously injured in an accident with an 18-wheels at the age of 12. Her mother, Jennifer, translated Brianna's sign language and explained to the doctors that she would always live in a vegetative state, but she still proves the opposite.

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says that I am possible,” they signed.

After the three -hour hearing of the committee, the future of the law is uncertain.

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