Shall we say that New York personal injury law is a right or a responsibility?

Straightaway, it is clear that personal injury and other civil laws are most definitely rights. Perhaps, then, our question is whether or not they also represent responsibilities.

Perhaps we can see personal injury laws - medical malpractice, accident, injury, construction accidents and the like - as muscles. Muscles exist whether they are used or not, but their condition depends very much on frequent exercise. Muscles also exist in the right places, where they are needed  most frequently and able to have the greatest effect.

Personal injury law is kept healthy by frequent “exercise” in the civil legal system. This keeps our laws and statues sharp and relevant, forever under the scrutiny of the best legal minds of the day. In a healthy, exercised body, the working of the muscles influences all the other systems. So is the case in the law, in which the exercise of the court system influences the work of the judicial and executive systems. The entire structure is stimulated and maintained by frequent “work outs.”

So now we can see the importance of the private citizen, who initiates each round of exercise, by exercising his or her right to justice. Bearing in mind that civil laws and statues exist where they are most readily and frequently needed, like muscles, it is clear that these statues address common wrongs in our daily lives. When private citizens do not exercise their rights after being wronged, atrophy occurs.

Where would our medical system be if those citizens unfortunate enough to be subject to medical negligence simply passed it off as bad “luck of the draw”? How many more patients would have and would continue to suffer the same fate? Is it not clear that these citizens, unlucky as they were, bore a responsibility to exercise their rights? Exercise is a pun here, and a most definitely intended one: to exercise the rights is to exercise the civil muscles of the country and keep our system strong.

There are many reasons not to contact a New York City medical malpractice lawyer. Any person who finds him/herself on the receiving end of negligent or inferior medical care can name plenty of motivations for staying silent: fear, hassle, intimidation, to name just a few. And yet, both the legal system and all citizens need the exercise of the legal system to keep it strong and healthy, able to fulfill its duty of protecting its citizens. This is to say, in a roundabout fashion, that personal injury law allows us - compels us - to exercise our rights to keep the system strong for one another, to protect one another

So, New York City personal injury law: right or responsibility? Yes.