Why It’s Important to Support Your Local Trial Lawyers Association

Powerful interest groups, like big insurance companies and other large corporations, delay or downright refuse to pay fair and just insurance claims, effectively putting individuals’ Seventh Amendment right at risk – their right to access to trial by jury.

Since the mid-90s, there has been a fundamental shift in how insurance companies process claims. They have shifted away from the benefit of policy holders and towards the benefit of shareholders, meaning they want to make as much money for themselves as possible to the detriment of those paying premiums.

Access to legal funding and trial lawyers preserves this inalienable right. Together, we are the guardians of those individuals who have been harmed by the negligence of others. When left unregulated, big businesses have proven time and again to be poor self-regulators and therefore must be held accountable for their products, actions and consequences of their poor business practices.

For these reasons, and for so many more, it’s important to support your local trial lawyers association.

State Trial Lawyers Associations

The American Association for Justice, www.justice.org, works collectively with more than 60 state and local trial attorney associations across the U.S. to promote a fair and effective justice system. They also support the work of attorneys in their efforts to ensure that any person injured by the misconduct or negligence of others can obtain justice in America’s courtrooms – even when taking on the most powerful interest groups and big corporations.

Read the rest of this article on the Cherokee Funding blog: Why It’s Important to Support Your Local Trial Lawyers Association.