Hard to have sympathy for injured fats I work in personal injury law and we do mostly motor vehicle accidents and slip and fall cases. My job is basically to sift through all the medical records and compile a demand that is easy for the adjuster to evaluate. Whenever I read medical records and see that the client is obese I automatically lose all sympathy for them.  For example, I am working on a case right now where a 17 year old passenger was in a car that got T-boned and she suffered internal bleeding and many other traumatic injuries. I felt bad for her until I saw her height and weight. 190 pounds and 5 feet tall. All sympathy gone. Not reducing my fee. Edit: she also lied about her weight to one of the doctors who clearly did not weight her. She thought she was 150 lbs.