The story’s title reads: Ground Zero Worker: I Received No Compensation For Throat Cancer. What the story should be titled is, "You're Getting What You Asked (Voted) For!

Frankly Poor Mr. Galvis; I feel sorry for him. I’m not surprised he got nothing, because I’ve been talking about it now for quite some time. I don’t blame the lawyers at Worby, Groner, Edelman & Napoli Bern because they are in business to first pay the bills and second to make some kind of a profit. But how do lawyers make a profit with a $10,000 case when we have so many liens and subrogation interests to protect? As lawyers dealing with health insurance subrogation, child support liens, auto insurance medical pay subrogation interests, Medicare, Medicaid, Title XIX and employee benefit plans under ERISA we are left asking who we represent. 

With all these insurance plans wanting a piece of the pie how should we be protecting the injured worker or the family of the breadwinner killed in a car accident? After all do we represent the injured person or all these corporate entities with their hands out wanting a piece of the pie? With most personal injury litigation today, the meat and potatoes cases, the small cases we handle, all we are doing is trading checks between insurance companies and being paid a fee to do so. It’s embarrassing, but it’s a sign of the times so don’t blame us, because we are only doing what your elected officials voted for us to do. Pay them before we can pay you. Our intended client, you know the injured man or woman, are being forgotten.

But don’t blame the lawyers in this instance – no siree, because you voted for the people that passed all these laws that treat the injured person as if they were an afterthought. There aren’t enough lawyers in the legislature so point your finger in some other direction. We lawyers have a light bill to pay. It’s what you call staying in business in today’s legal environment. 

It's sort of like this, we all slaughter each other while those Senators in Washington slaughter us. So all hail to Caesar because he's alive, well and living the good life in the Capital City.

Join me in the ring and sing along with AC/DC and sing loud to those whom you voted for and for the lot those have cast upon you. Sing loud and long, sing Hail Caesar!

He be the count of Monte Cristo 

Could be a quake any day 
Maybe somebody from Siam 
Begin the era of a new rage 
Keeps lickin' all the honey 
Chewin' up the fat he rakes 
Instead of sending to the lions 
They cover him with praise 

All hail Caesar, Hail, Hail! 
All hail Caesar, Hail, Hail! 

Down at the epicenter 
Things started heatin' up 
Rockin' on the richter scale 
[Rockin' up the richter scale] 
Swinging in the chariot 
Around and around we go 
The senators rehearse the tale 
Starring in the coliseum 
Tied upon the rack 
Up comes the thumb of Caesar 
To stab you in the back 

All hail Caesar, Hail, Hail! 
All hail Caesar, Hail, Hail! 

Down at the epicenter 
Things started heatin' up 
Rockin' on the richter scale 
Swingin' in the chariot 
Around and around we go 
the Senators rehearse the tale 

Watch out Caesar, watch out Caesar 

[I said hail, I said hail! 
I said Hail, I said Hail! 

Hail 
Hail 
Hail 
Hail 
Hail 
Hail 
Hail 
Hail 
Hail ] 

[All hail Caesar, hail, hail! 
All hail Caesar, hail, hail! 
All hail Caesar, hail, hail! 
All hail Caesar, hail, hail! 

You need eyes in the back of your head boy, 
or you're dead.]