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Originally Posted by parfleche
Moderator cut: name-callingcoors stopped this practice many years ago due to drunk employees getting into wrecks and being sued. thus coors being sued. giving free beer is just plain stupid
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If they were handing out the beer at the door of the plant, I could see it but from what I understand they simply mail certificates for the beer and it is given out by a store that sells the beer and thus should already be covered by dram shop insurance. If I go to Wal*Mart and buy a $50 Visa gift card and give it to somebody for their 21st birthday and they use it to buy 2 cases of beer and get drunk and cause an accident, I would like to see somebody try to sue me for it. Or Wal*Mart. They can sue the drunk that hit them and *maybe* the store that sold them the beer- and that is a big maybe.
And if that was an issue, they could simply substitute a cheque for the wholesale cost of the beer in lieu of the certificate.
Lastly, the company itself did not even say this was why they were doing it.
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