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We're talking about people with sufficiently significant impairments that they are incapable of working. They are non-technical and likely do not have an emergency fund or usable credit. They do not have the bandwidth to file lawsuits.

I agree that this feels like a market misalignment that could be corrected and make someone a boatload of money in the process, but between the above issue and the general slowness of the legal market I'm not sure that that's actually the case.



>I agree that this feels like a market misalignment that could be corrected and make someone a boatload of money in the process

This is already done. There are law firms that specialize in disability cases on contingency - they take their payment as a cut of what your back pay would be if they win and nothing if they lose.


And as a result, their bar for taking winnable cases is even higher. Its not that easy for most people.




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