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  • #16
    Quoth Irving Patrick Freleigh View Post
    In Cheeselandialand, we came very close to implementing something called "joint and several liability." Or something like that. The thrust of it is that a party found even 1% responsible in a lawsuit can be held responsible for 100% of the damages. It was part of the state budget as written up by the Governor, but taken out in the state legislature when people complained.

    So in the example you referred to, if she sued Ford because her kids died from being locked up in a hot car, and the jury found Ford 1% responsible, she could still collect millions upon millions of dollars from Ford.

    And it doesn't cost anything to file a suit and most lawyers charge no fee unless you win, so why not take a shot at it?
    And people wonder why the cost of cars is so high. Yeah, it doesn't cost them anything in the short term but all these lawsuits start to add up. It will be interesting when the parents of the kids killed by the train here start racking up the victims. Never mind that the kid ran a crossing gate and went around a car that was already stopped to do so. But it must be Amtrak's or Ford's fault.

    Lawyer: Now, you admit that you could build a car that would be safe from a train, but you don't want to. ARe your precious dollars that important?
    Ford Engineer: Would you be willing drive around in a vehicle that is roughly train sized? Think of the gas mileage.
    Lawyer: Think. Ha! I'm a lawyer.

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    • #17
      Quoth infinitemonkies View Post
      Then she sued Ford <or whoever, i forget the make> for not having a warning label on the dashboard that says "Bitch, don't bake your damned kids."
      O_O PLEASE tell me she got what was coming to her... and I don't mean cash...
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      • #18
        IIRC, she was sentenced to 4 years in prison for negligence causing death <or something like that.> Also her lawsuit against Ford <actually, I'm pretty sure it was GM now that I think about it> was asking for $70,000 and was dismissed by the judge. Again, these details may not be exact, just going from memory.
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        • #19
          Quoth MadMike View Post
          How the hell can someone forget their kids? I'm one of the most scatterbrained people I know, and I've never forgotten my kid.
          Read a story about 2 years ago or so about a woman who left her 2-year-old locked in her BMW for about 3 hours while she took her DOG shopping in some very high-end boutiques. I think it was in Manhattan.
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