When did people started suing each other for everything.

[Soilwork]

Most people don't really get the coffee thing.

McDonalds served near-boiling water in a thin paper container that wasn't sufficient to contain it.

McDonalds should have made coffee cups that were capable of holding their coffee and they should have served coffee that wasn't so hot it would cause scarring if spilled.

but there are some rather silly frivilous law suits out there, that's for sure.

 

[Blatino]

I was born without a birthcertificate and like seriously the time leading up to getting it I wanted to sue the hospital I was born at. Like we had a hospital copy but since it wasnt "certified" I couldnt get my permit or license. When I went to the courthouse, they didnt have me on file OR on the computer. I was born in the US, Im not an alien. We started working on getting my birthcertificate when I was 15, had to start from scratch to make a new one.....didnt get it until the summer of my 18th birthday. It still pisses me off thinking about it. My mom had a nice red honda waiting for me when I was 16 but we had to give it away because it was just sitting there going to waste. Now I have to settle for a hand me down...

 

[Shepherd 2]

I beg to differ with those who say,
"There are too many lawyers."
Lawyers do not cause law suits.
It is people who want to be released from their
citizen responsibilities when they cause bad
things to happen by either poor judgement
or an 'I don't give a shit attitude.'
In 2000 I was in a car accident which nearly cost my life,
and had appeared to leave me a quadrapelegic.
I was forced into early retirement and left to
sue the other driver because of the bullship of
a well know Insurance Company.
I had to sue. I was so sick from all of it.
Shep+

 

[scottish1]

The answer is greed,lawyers and that they were able to do so.

 

[gsdx]

Does anyone have any numbers on how much the people actually get out of the judgement? I'm guessing the lawyers get a vast percentage of it. If that's the case, that is the reason there are so many frivolous lawsuits these days.

I do enjoy watching some of the court programmes, though, when a situation like this arises:

Judge (to Defendant): "Okay, let's get to your countersuit. You're suing Mr. Jones for $5,000 for harassment and pain and suffering and moving expenses. Please explain."

Defendant: "He kept phoning me day and night. I had change my telephone number twice and I even had to move. He wouldn't leave me alone, Your Honour."

Judge: "Because he wanted you to pay back the money he lent to you!"



American Justice did an episode about prison lawsuits as well several years ago. Apparently, by law, prison libraries must contain a 'law' section and, as it turns out, this section is bigger and better than those available in most major law firms.

The prisoners spend hours in there finding precedents and ideas resulting in a tremendous backlog of frivolous lawsuits which cost tax payers millions of dollars.

For example:

Prisoner sued because he wasn't allowed to wear his favourite brand of sneakers.

Prisoner sued for brutality when a guard hit him with a flashlight. (He failed to mention that he was stabbing the guard with a knife at the time.)

Prisoner sued because the prison cafeteria would not serve crunchy peanut butter.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

Apparently, although law suits continue, the amounts of payouts are WAY down because the insurance companies just won't play ball anymore.

When I was in my motorcycle accident, I was thrown from my bike, my bike was totaled, I slid on my face for 10 feet, I was rushed to the hospital, I was bleeding all over the street and I had three bones in my neck thrown out of alignment.

After my lawyer and the "specialists" that he sent me to had their cut, I got like a grand. Quite a far cry from 3 million dollars for hot coffee.

If I had to do it again, I'd not do it at all. It was just way too much trouble and to be honest, it made me feel a little dirty.

where was this jasun in toronto or LA
honestly i think you had a bad lawyer.

after my accident i spent almost 12 years suing the insurance and in the meanwhile they paid me every month. my regular pay.

lets just say it was resolved very positively

 

[thermodynamics]

There might be too many lawyers. I don't know.

But it seems to me like a lot of it is really people who have done wrong not owning up to it. As for insurance companies...We have insurance for these cases when we screw up. It's their job to pay out.

But for some humor:
How many lawyers does it take to shingle a roof?



Depends on how thin you slice them.

 

[poncaplowboy]

I believe around 30 years ago the American Bar Association had a rule forbidding its members from advertising on radio and TV. Since many states, but not all, had laws requiring lawyers practicing in those states to be members of good standing in the bar association, lawyers usually toed the line and did not advertise, except in Yellow Pages phone books. The broadcasting industry wanted to increase its advertising base so it lobbied the association to change its rules. When it did, Pandora's Box was opened and litigation increased....and increased....and increased. Advertising pays.

 

[gsdx]

The broadcasting industry wanted to increase its advertising base so it lobbied the association to change its rules. When it did, Pandora's Box was opened and litigation increased....and increased....and increased. Advertising pays.

I mentioned this in Post #9, but you rarely see legitimate law firms advertising on television. They don't really need to advertise. The lawyers who swamp the airwaves with their commercials are the ambulance chasers who prey on people by telling them they deserve thousands and even millions of dollars for their injuries even when none exist. That is why insurance premiums are so high these days.

As Judge Judy is prone to say on occasion: "Not everything is a lawsuit!"

 

[valis23]

This seems the logical place to post this:

Friday August 10, 2007
Man says hold the cheese, claims McDonald's didn't, sues for $10 million
by Justin D. Anderson
Daily Mail Staff

A Morgantown man, his mother and his friend are suing McDonald's for $10 million.
The man says he bit into a hamburger and had a severe allergic reaction to the cheese melted on it.

Jeromy Jackson, who is in his early 20s, says he clearly ordered two Quarter Pounders without cheese at the McDonald's restaurant in Star City before heading to Clarksburg.

His mother Trela Jackson and friend Andrew Ellifritz are parties to the lawsuit because they say they risked their lives rushing Jeromy to United Hospital Center in Clarksburg.

The lawsuit alleges Jeromy "was only moments from death" or serious injury by the time he reached the hospital.

"We're interested in seeing McDonald's take responsibility and change a systemic quality control problem that endangers the lives of up to 12 million Americans with allergies," said Timothy Houston, the Morgantown lawyer representing the plaintiffs.

Houston said his clients were in Morgantown in October 2005 and stopped at the Star City McDonald's on the way home to Clarksburg. Jeromy Jackson was living with his mother at the time.

Jeromy did his part to make it known he didn't want cheese on the hamburgers because he is allergic, Houston said.

He told a worker through the ordering speaker and then two workers face-to-face at the pay and pick-up windows that he couldn't eat cheese, Houston said.

"By my count, he took at least five independent steps to make sure that thing had no cheese on it," Houston said. "And it did and almost cost him his life."

After getting the food, the three drove to Clarksburg and started to eat the food in a darkened room where they were going to watch a movie, Houston said.

Jeromy took one bite and started having the reaction, Houston said. One of the three immediately called the McDonald's to let restaurant employees know they had messed up the order, but had to cut the call short when Jeromy started having a bad reaction, Houston said.

At least two managers at the McDonald's called the Jacksons afterward to apologize for what happened, Houston said.

McDonald's representatives offered to pay half of Jeromy's medical bills -- which totaled about $700. When Houston became involved, he said the company offered to pay all the medical costs.

The plaintiffs weren't interested, and McDonald's wasn't offering anything more than medical costs.

The Jacksons and Ellifritz filed the lawsuit on July 18 in Monongalia Circuit Court.

Houston didn't know if McDonald's had yet been served with the complaint.

The lawsuit seeks damages on two counts of negligence, one count of intentional infliction of emotional distress and one count of punitive damages.

The fast-food giant has been sued before.

In one notorious instance in 1992, Stella Liebeck, a 79-year-old woman from Albuquerque, N.M., sued McDonald's after she suffered third-degree burns from spilling a hot cup of coffee in her lap.

A jury later awarded Liebeck $2.9 million.

 

[gsdx]

^ He couldn't see it!???

 

[valis23]

Well, it was McDonalds. Maybe he thought it was more of the paper wrapper? If you showed a McDonald's fish sandwich to someone unfamiliar with McD's, what are the odds they would recognize that as fish in there?

 

[wanderer]

When you ask??? i will tell you when....when california became a state...LOL

perhaps i should share a joke: Whats the difference between a lawyer and a catfish? .....one's a scum sucking bottom dweller, and the other is a fish..LOL

ok, but seriously, you put a bunch of dumb shits in a room, then bring in the money hungry lawyers, and you get the current problem. somehow today's mentality is you slip and fall into a boat load of money,,,if you get hurt, screw them, and sue them, and become a millionaire.

here is how bad it is.........READ CAREFULLY!!!.....i read this in the newspaper a couple months back.....titled "It finally happens....Man sues himself" this guy was a garbage man for some municipality and he accidentally backed the truck into this car on the street on his route. later, when he gets home, he finds that the garbage truck backed into his car and damaged it, and it appeared to be a "hit and run" so he decided to sue the city for it. he doesnt deny driving the truck, but he says that since he was working for the city at the time, and inflicted the damages in that context, the city is responsible for paying for the damages to his car. I think it actually went to court. (he was fucking driving the truck dammit!!! into his own car!!!!)

 

[wanderer]

about that cheese on the filet-o-fish,,,,when somebody is that allergic, they should check the damn food, or dont even eat there!!! they claim to have done so much to keep the cheese out but they could have just looked inside. if its dark, then turn on the light, hell, "his life is at stake"...it was them that was negligent.


here is a thought....they never mentioned what THE OTHER PEOPLE ordered. what if they ordered normal fillet-o-fish sandwiches which do come with cheese, and got them mixed up in the dark when they went to watch their movie????? (read the story and you might come to this conclusion too)

 

[wanderer]

^^ i wonder if one of the guards had taken a shot at him and injured him, do you think he would have sued stating that the punishment for robbing a bank is prison and not getting shot at? how ridiculous is his argument. i say thank got his balls got mangled so now he cant contaminate the rest of the gene pool with his rotten seed.