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09-10-2010, 01:16 PM
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When I was a GI Fellow at Temple, an uninsured, drunk man was riding a bicycle down the middle of Broad Street at 2 AM, swerved, and hit a car. He was hospitalized for months (for free), did "reasonably well" despite his multiple injuries, and was discharged. He then sued the driver, the city, the hospital, every person whose name was on his chart, AND...the Schwinn Bicycle company, for not having a label on the bicycle warning against riding drunk. The kicker is that he'd stolen the bicycle! I don't know if any of the plaintiffs settled, but I know the hospital vowed to use all their resources to fight it.
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#4032
09-10-2010, 01:23 PM
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Why would anyone settle with him over that ??
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#4033
09-10-2010, 01:31 PM
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Because he had no resources, so was not going to pay your court costs if he lost. Other than the bad precedent, cheaper to pay a couple of thousand dollars than to go to trial. Doctors have been long fighting with malpractice insurance companies not to settle even for low dollars because we're the ones who have to live with what counts as a malpractice suit decided against us.
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#4034
09-10-2010, 01:38 PM
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The world is a vampire........and many of the vampires are lawyers.
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09-10-2010, 01:55 PM
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 I don't know what to say about that. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
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#4036
09-10-2010, 02:03 PM
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The English legal system has an elegant solution for this - loser always pays courts costs and fees for BOTH sides.
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09-10-2010, 02:20 PM
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09-10-2010, 02:25 PM
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#4039
09-10-2010, 02:42 PM
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#4040
09-10-2010, 03:14 PM
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That's why frivolous court cases are much fewer in England, which was John's point.
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