G. Dallas Horton & Associates is one of those ambulance-chasing, slip-and-spill personal injury law firms that conservatives generally have particular disdain for. GDH solicits customers on its website with this pitch: “Let our law firm take the burden off of you and put it where it belongs – on the person responsible for your pain and suffering.”
According to the Wild, Wild Law blog, here’s an example of GDH trying to put the blame where it belongs from a case decided a little over a year ago:
“Plaintiff was a passenger in a vehicle traveling 75 MPH in a 25 MPH zone. The vehicle ran a stop sign, lost control, and slammed into Defendant’s cinder block wall. Defendant had constructed a flowerbed abutting the cinder block wall at the exact spot where Plaintiff’s vehicle impacted the wall. Plaintiff sustained injuries that were worse than they would have been if the flowerbed was not there. Plaintiff claimed that said flowerbed made the wall into a ‘death trap.’ Plaintiff sued defendant for (1) negligently building the flowerbed, (2) failing to warn her of said flowerbed, and (3) negligence per se for building the flowerbed in a manner that violated the building code.”
That’s right. These people sued the homeowner for failing to warn a reckless moron driving 75 in a 25 mph zone that they had built a flower bed inside the wall on their own property! Fortunately, the judge laughed the case out of court; however, it’s frivolous lawsuits such as this that drive the cost of insurance through the roof.
So what’s this have to do with politics in Nevada? Oh, did I forget to mention that G. Dallas Horton & Associates faxed out an invitation yesterday to a fundraising reception it’s hosting for other lawyers on behalf of ex-lawyer and supposedly conservative Republican U.S. Senate candidate Danny Tarkanian at their offices on May 20?
I wonder how Danny feels about tort reform that would reign in lawsuit cowboys such as G. Dallas Horton?