Saturday, August 28, 2010

Protection for the Common Man

By Cleo Gib
In the time of the great Pyramids people were used as cattle; this is only one example of millenniums of abuse of the working class. Coal miners, brick layers, factory workers, construction people, if you go hurt on the job, you lost your job. If you died, there was no recompense, no court to hear your case, no restitution of any kind. We have flipped the system and hold employers

accountable for the safety conditions of their work places. Personal injury attorneys have helped spearhead some of these reforms. With responsibility comes restitution, payment for loss of job, inability to work, and life changing injuries. Drunk drivers are held responsible for damages and lives shattered. People are help accountable for injury to others from chemical companies to mining safety.

Not only is the workplace safer, but responsibility is places squarely on all of us to make sure we drive safer, our pets are under control, toxics are out of our homes and that the medical profession takes responsibility for their actions also. Personal injury attorneys in Greenville, Myrtle Beach and Rock Hill specialize in automobile accidents, work related injuries, spinal cord injury, dog bites, drunk drivers, pesticide exposure, lead point exposure, and traumatic brain injury. We all know of instances of abuse by the court, where ridiculous settlements were rewarded, but would we really want to go back to the way it was with no accountability, no restitution and no workers compensation? The pendulum always has to swing a little too far in order to right itself in the middle. We are a litigious society, but we are also safer, more responsible and companies and employers held to a higher code of health, comfort and safety for their employees.

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