Lawyers & Ro.

[Guest fla_viking]

Dear Fellow Veterans & Friends

It will be interesting to see lawyers who are use to going into a court of law to enforce laws that are being violated. To have those same lawyers see the corrupton they have to navigate through in the RO system and not beabel to get anyone to do anythig about it. Maybe the right to hire lawyers at the VA level wont be such a threat because no lawyer would want to pratice in such a one sided system. I also presume lawyers will have complet cases when they go forward and will try for the ajudicators to spell things out as clear as possibel. I wonder if the VA will take perfectly preparied cases that should be SC from the start and drag them out for years.

I saw on Fox 28 this morning where in those who worked at the collapse of the world trade center towers have very serious health problems. THey have been awarded money by the courts but workmans comp will not pay. The wife of one said they were waiting for her husband to die so the claim would not have to be paid. It was reported that many injuried workds just gave up because they made the process so hard to go through. These people are represented by lawyers to and getting a royal screw. They even have acess to courts and have orders for payment yet the payer doesnt have to pay. The Wife talked about all the econimic stress they go through having to beg for money to pay bills. This naton does that to so many military, veterans, workers that it is a common pratice. They should out law the systems that allow those pratices to happen agianst the disabled.

Terry Higgins

[JR Reihs]

I think the Cap on the fees is what will determine whether or not this will work, if the Cap is low, dont expect anything new.

Most lawyers worth a grain of salt bill between $200 to 400, per hour depending on locality, so unless they have a great interest in helping vets, which will be far and few, I do not see a big shift in the way the VA will change.

At least it is a good starting point , and for now I think the biggest change will be the VSO's. This is a wake up call for them to do it right the first time or go find another job, it will be interesting to watch it unfold.