Thanks for the enocuragment skygirl. As you probably read I'm not able to fly for a while because of the anti-anxiety medication, though it's actually not just the lawsuit itself. There's other craziness in my life as well. Even if no medication was involved I would probably still take time off from flying.

Lawsuit fraud is probably one of the most often committed crimes in the US and it's probably one of the least prosecuted. In another post I'll give you all two more personal stories.

There's also a definite ethics problem amongst the legal community. In my case my lawyer met with the plaintiff's lawyer and asked him what this dumb suit was all about. The plaintiff's lawyer said he was just "doing his job". That got me angry, because that's total BS. The only time it's a lawyer's "job" to represent somebody is when they're a public defender. In a provate practice a lawyer has the right to pick and choose his cases, and has an ethical obligation to deny representation to obviously phony clients.

In your case, skygirl, when it was found that the man was completely making everything up he should have been arrested and thrown in jail. As a matter of fact that's the way the law is indeed written, but it's seldom enforced.

I'll go out on a limb and guess the main reason is because EVERYTHING in government is controlled by lawyers. Most elected officials and appointed positions holders (like the police commissioners) are lawyers, and therefore won't prosecute fraud-commiters because they want to help their lawyer buddied make money. It's a tit-for-tat situation and the legal community is a pretty tight-nit group. Just my estimation.