It's legit in some situations, but it has become so overused that it is now a cliche and american stereotypeblackngold29
agreed. i like to lean more toward the person fixing the wrong instead of sticking them up for all they've got. if they're not willing to do that, then you need to bring the law into play... assuming it's not over some morbidly obese porker suing mcdonalds over their own glutonous eating habits...
i work at the local newspaper, and someone accidentally put the wrong picture for someone's campaign ad for an upcoming election. instead of putting the correct picture, she put the picture of his dead father, cuz she searched the last name, and that was the only one that came up. the day the paper came out, we got tons of calls coming in saying we had the wrong picture. the man's wife threatened to sue us and then hung up. the next week, we put the correct picture on the front page, and apologized for the mistake. two days ago, we got something from a lawyer saying they were gonna sue us. my bosses just laughed and were like "this isn't even worth responding to." i thought it was pretty funny.
in some instances it is ok. like if someone stiffs someone on a business deal or gets severely hurt in an accident that will effect the rest of their life
I just read an article about a man in Canada who sued over a fly in his bottled water and was awarded over $300,000. The Supreme Court eventually overturned it, but only after conceding that he suffered "legitimate emotional distress" (or something of that nature). It was a freaking fly!
I think juries need to start looking at cash settlements in terms of work hours. $1000,000 shouldn't be a percentage of a companies bottom line, it should be a person earning $25,000 a year for 40 freaking years. Now, there aren't many incidents that could be worse than the aggregate suffering of 40 years of labor, and yet we often see multimillion dollars lawsuits tossed around like they're nothing. Instead of awarding someone hundreds of millions of dollars for finding a severed finger in their chili at Wendy's they should look at how many hours of work would be equal to the distress of finding a finger in your chili. If I found the finger before eating any chili I'd trade a year off work for the experience in a heartbeat. Likewise I'd say that the "distress" of finding a fly in my bottle of water would be about equal to staying an hour late at work with no pay. Give the man $20 and let him split it with his lawyer.
They are the bottomfeeders of the world, and instead of earning money they cleverly steal it... in a legit form though. I remember that one man who sued the Dry Cleaners for 50 million dollars because his pants where ruined.... I don't think even celebs would buy pants with a price tag like that. Yet he somehow won. About a $4,999,9950 profit, not bad huh?
Two reasons. The first is that they have a ligitimate legal issue and want to resolve it. The second is they hear about all the stupid cases that are awarded millions of dollars in damages want to cash in on some issue caused by their own stupidity.
They are the bottomfeeders of the world, and instead of earning money they cleverly steal it... in a legit form though. I remember that one man who sued the Dry Cleaners for 50 million dollars because his pants where ruined.... I don't think even celebs would buy pants with a price tag like that. Yet he somehow won. About a $4,999,9950 profit, not bad huh?Moroes
who spends $50 on pants? if i could spend $50 on pants, i wouldn't need the dry cleaners.
Lawsuits have a legitimate purpose in protecting people who have been financially victimized by someone else and need a court order to get that person to pay up. However, the frivolous lawsuits that should never even make it to court seem to be all you hear about.
I don't get how you can sue someone because you broke into their house and tried to get away by jumping out of the window into and empty pool, sue them because they didn't have water in their pool and win.
Or even breaking into someones house and they hit you because you are in their house and you sue them and win.
Because some people deserve compensation for things they are either out or have had happen to them. However, the ridiculous practice in the US of suing and GETTING more than you deserve needs to be stopped.
People in America sue because they are stupid and ignorant to the human condition, but mainly because (if they live in America) they know that they stand a good chance of bettering themselves financially by abusing the (flawed) US legal system.
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