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So 10 million is a good price for spilling hot coffee in my lap...after the cup say "HOT"?
Really....
The actual amount of damages was reduced to $640,000 by the trial judge. It was appealed but the parties (Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants, P.T.S., Inc., No. D-202 CV-93-02419, 1995 WL 360309 (Bernalillo County, N.M. Dist. Ct. August 18, 1994) settled the suit out of court with the final settlement never disclosed.
The actual amount of damages was reduced to $640,000 by the trial judge. It was appealed but the parties (Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants, P.T.S., Inc., No. D-202 CV-93-02419, 1995 WL 360309 (Bernalillo County, N.M. Dist. Ct. August 18, 1994) settled the suit out of court with the final settlement never disclosed.
Either way, people like this need to be slapped....
There is a reason that a ladder has a warning on every step that say do not stand on the very top step, you might fall....
So 10 million is a good price for spilling hot coffee in my lap...after the cup say "HOT"?
Really....
In fairness, most of those suits are knucklehead jury awards that are later reduced but they do make for salacious headlines.
A lot of states have passed laws aimed at tort reform, mainly aimed at "venue shopping" like in IL where they try to get all the cases moved either into Chicago or East St. Louis so you can get a poorer, dumber jury happy to give a big award out.
On a NATIONAL level, something like 90% of all class action suits are brought in Mississippi so as to take advantage of uneducated, poor juries that hate corporations etc. as well as access to judges that will be favorable.
P.S. While "loser pays" suits look good on the surface it has a lot of problems including limiting a persons right to get their day in court because they don't have the assets or rather have too much to lose.
My version of Tort reform. You lose the suit, you pay the costs.
Done.
...next...
I understand the positive aspect of this idea but if you're suing some huge corporation and they win the bill could be enormous.
I think the better plan is to eliminate or severely curtail the contingency fees on large awards, the justice system is like a slot machine and they keep pulling the handle waiting for the bell to start dinging. It's in their best interests to file a lot of lawsuits, they are just playing the odds.
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