Re: EPA CONFIRMS HEALTH/ECONOMIC MOLD IMPACT $3.5 B P/YEAR AS...

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What percentage of injured people actually get to sue? Probably less than 1%

Of those cases, what percentage settle for much less than the actual loss, a

very high percentage, perhaps almost 100%

So the ACTUAL economic loss to the victims from mold illness must be

ASTRONOMICAL..

And that is just the classic mold illnesses that we acknowledge.. The

economic loss to people by the large number of other diseases caused OR

EXCERBATED because of indoor mold is also probably much higher..

Those are all broken lives, relationships, homes, careers, futures..

All AVOIDABLE..

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Yup. yup. yup. yup.

We're small but mighty on the other side and we WILL overcome. We are making

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LiveSimply <quackadillian@...> wrote:

What percentage of injured people actually get to sue? Probably less than 1%

Of those cases, what percentage settle for much less than the actual loss, a

very high percentage, perhaps almost 100%

So the ACTUAL economic loss to the victims from mold illness must be

ASTRONOMICAL..

And that is just the classic mold illnesses that we acknowledge.. The

economic loss to people by the large number of other diseases caused OR

EXCERBATED because of indoor mold is also probably much higher..

Those are all broken lives, relationships, homes, careers, futures..

All AVOIDABLE..

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 5/26/2007 6:38:19 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,

quackadillian@... writes:

So the ACTUAL economic loss to the victims from mold illness must be

ASTRONOMICAL.A

And that is just the classic mold illnesses that we acknowledge.And t

economic loss to people by the large number of other diseases caused OR

EXCERBATED because of indoor mold is also probably much higher..

Those are all broken lives, relationships, homes, careers, futures..

All AVOIDABLE..

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Quackadillian,

I was thinking along the same lines. If it is 3.5 billion from asthma

brought on by damp indoor buildings, what dollar amount is missing from that

number? I would be inclined to believe it is far greater. What about workers

comp, disability, foreclosures, building materials, litigation, useless

medicine, secondary hosp. infections, irritant and toxic illness, increased

school

and public maintenance costs, etc. crop production and farm animals, zoos, etc.

I would be inclined to believe that the 3.5 is actually just the tiney tip

of the iceberg of costs over this issue.

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[Guest guest]

Many years ago I read an essay in a book entitled " The Politics of Law " that

went into a long analysis of personal injury lawsuits and the dynamics of

claims and how the system worked to basically deny justice to so many more

than it gives any form of justice to.

It basically said that for the system to actually work everybody who was

inured needed to sue, and that society should make it easy for them, because

that was an essential part of the deterrence system - we are on an honor

system that depends on people to sue to deter abuse of that honor system.

I'm going to try to locate a used copy of it, because it was very, very good

in describing just how skewed and broken the system is. And not in the way

the 'tort reform' people say either. The opposite way.