That seems a very USA problem. It seems a very adversarial society.

Are the ads for layers on buses and benches for real or just a TV trope? I have never seen anything like that in Europe...

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nitwit005 a day ago | parent | next [-]

Most of the listed problems are issues of incentives, and those are true everywhere. Insurance companies are always going to be reluctant to pay.

That there are no billboard ads for personal injury lawyers, clearly doesn't imply injury lawsuits aren't occurring.

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jsisto a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes. In California 75% or more of the roadside billboards and bus ads are for lawyers. Typically injury lawyers. They have their own slogans and jingles.

	▲	nostrademons a day ago \| parent [-]
		In the Bay Area they tend to be for AI companies, though I'm pretty sure I've seen at least one for an AI lawyer. (Meaning a general-practice lawyer that is actually a datacenter, not a human lawyer who practices AI law.) It's actually kinda fun to look at the public transportation ads and see what they say about each major metro area. In the Bay Area most are for enterprise software vendors. In Boston most were employment ads with some obscure scientific or mathematical puzzle where if you solved it, it redirected to a biotech or software company's jobs page. In Baltimore, it was mostly for bail bonds.