Civil Justice
What does "civil justice" mean? To us at Lewis & Daggett it means that the folks we work for have a remedy when they are wrongfully injured, disabled or hurt at work. Civil Justice hasn’t always been a remedy, and many times for us it is still a constant fight.
Mike and Dave in Washington, D.C.
It American society, our legal system provides the rules and the structure so that we can operate in an orderly and safe fashion, and defines a framework for transacting business. But, as a society, we often fail to appreciate our legal and its relative newness and uniqueness in the world.
Do you recall what happened when then Vice-President of the United States Aaron Burr did when he heard that former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton was speaking unkindly about him at a social function in New York? In the spring of 1804 Burr challenged Hamilton to a duel to settle the dispute. The duel ensued and Hamilton died the next day. Thus closed a chapter of American history.
Can you imagine what our society would be like if we would use duels, or some similar system, to settle disputes after a car accident? Our civil justice system is designed to prevent this sort of activity so that we have a civilized way to solve our problems. Ordinary people have not always had these legal rights.
Remember that democracy is still a fairly young concept. For most of the history of humankind, the rules, or laws, were decided only by the rich and the powerful. Others had few rights or avenues of recourse for wrongs or injustices.
Today under the law things are different. We are proud to work hard with the law to fight for the rights of individuals to be treated fairly when wrongfully injured or disabled. We take that obligation very seriously.