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Its the same with injury lawers adn personal calim adverts where you have a pathetic re-enactment and an actor saying how please they were they got £3,500 for falling over in a reallymonotone voice! The worst one is the waitress in the resturant who slipped over a bit of food which hadnt been cleaned up! If she'd been looking were she was going then she could have avoided it!!! It was a kitchen!!!
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Written by: DragonFury
It drives me crazy when people sue over the most stupid things.....
like the guy that spilt his maccas coffee and sued maccas cos it was hot and he got burnt.
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I bet there's plenty of people who, unlike you, would have just let it go by, either through not knowing what else to do, or through fear of losing the job.
Written by: starpoi
The police had a stand at a show i was at last week and they were saying that people basically aren't allowed to do anything to protect their property (such as spikey bits on top of garden fences etc) incase it hurts someone.
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Written by: flamazine
....how hard it is to get decent insurance for performing with fire.
Written by: flamazine
I recently go quite badly burnt (3% of my skin area, 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree burns) doing a fire stunt that went wrong, the people I was working with hadn't understood exactly what I wanted them to do and I ended up wearing a burning shirt.
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Written by: flamazine
The white trash who do most of the spurious claims are living off the rest off us by putting our insurance costs up.....
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Written by: starpoi
It is so silly what people are managing to sue people for these days. If i sued everytime i tripped over something i would be a millionaire!
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If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh
If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh
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New Hampshire has a point....
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Written by: becci
on tuesday afternoon i got the dreaded call from my 4yr old sons school asking me to get there asap.
i arrived to find blood everywhere, 5 teachers panicking and my son screaming in agony.
during playtime his finger had been crushed by another child in the metal gates surrounding the younger childrens play area.
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Written by: munkypunks
And, onewheeldave, yes, many stories of stupid lawsuits are true. I deal with them frequently. E.g., we defended a lawsuit brought by a woman who took early retirement, set up her own transcription business, and then when there wasn't much work for her, claimed to be disabled. And a family who mailed in an application for life insurance on a guy who was already dead. Hello???? Many small businesses find it difficult or prohibitively expensive to get liability coverage because of all of the litigation going on. Many lawsuits are justified, of course; the difficulty is sifting out the chaff.
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Written by: munkypunks
But the question I was responding to was whether the stories of stupid lawsuits are simply urban myths. They're not. I can give you stories of extortion arising out of the ADA. Some lawyers go around suing any business without a ramp out front, but then offer to dismiss the case for a nominal sum, say 1-5K. No ramp was ever put in, so the disabled didn't get the change they needed, but the lawyers made money. Etc. These are clearly fraud.
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......................Or the guy that spilt his maccas coffee and sued maccas cos it was hot and he got burnt................
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Written by: Firepoise
And is it fair to say they weren't 'taking the issue seriously'?
Written by: Firepoise
And yes, in this occasion a mistake was obviously made... but even if a supervisor had been present, you can't protect a classroom of children all the time.
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Getting to the other side
Keep your dream alive
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New Hampshire has a point....
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In the discussion about whether people file worthless lawsuits, once again, the eight-year-old spectre of people who "sue because coffee was too hot" came up. This is the typical example of a runaway lawsuit culture: some woman who orders hot coffee, gets hot coffee, and sues because it's hot. As this link from Public Citizen shows, that's not what happened.
Adults enjoy very hot beverages, close to 95°C (over 200°F), but we know how to sip them very slowly with lots of cooling air, and even we occasionally burn our tongues. When we spill such beverages on our skin, we know to wave the affected area around to cool it rapidly, or run it under cold water ASAP. Children and senior citizens have more sensitive and thinner skin, and just one second of hot coffee on a child's arm can cause a full-penetration third-degree burn. Lots of organizations warn about the dangers of hot liquid around children.
In the famous McDonald's case, a 79-year-old woman was served 180°F to 190°F coffee (82°C to 89°C) in a thin cup in a drive-thru. She put the cup between her legs to stabilize it -- trying to be careful -- and removed the lid to add cream and sugar. The coffee sloshed out upon removing the lid, quickly giving her third-degree burns across her groin, inner thighs, and buttocks. She spent eight days in a hospital, had to go through skin grafts, and was disabled for more than two years -- all for a 49-cent cup of coffee in a flimsy cup that McDonald's served way, way too hot for a drive-in window.
And the company knew, too. The company had received "at least 700" scalding coffee reports in the previous ten years, some involving children ("Go get Daddy a refill" shouldn't be a dangerous statement). It settled some of these claims for up to $500,000. In this case, the woman's medical bills totalled over $11,000. McDonald's offered her $800 to go away. A court-appointed mediator recommended that McDonald's settle for $225,000, but the company refused, went to trial -- and was hit with $200,000 in compensatory damages (reduced to $160,000 as the jury attributed 20% of the fault to the woman for having the coffee in her lap), and $2.7 million in punitive damages, based on the fact that at that time, McDonald's earned $1.35 million per day in coffee revenues. The damage award was two days' worth of McDonald's corporate coffee income. Even that was later reduced to $480,000, but before the appeals could be decided, the woman and McDonald's settled privately with undisclosed and confidential terms.
$480,000 is the money McDonald's takes in for coffee sales in 8.5 hours, and that was eight years ago.
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