On Saturday, April 26, 2014 6:18:58 AM UTC-7, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per John B.:

Well, why not? After all, someone buys buy a cup of hot coffee and

proceeds to spill it in their lap then they sue the coffee seller.



Watch the movie "Hot Coffee". The complexity of the situation goes

way, way, way beyond the sound bytes you hear on the news media.

--

Pete Cresswell

True, although "Hot Coffee" was produced by a trial lawyers association and was more or less a preemptive strike on jury pools. Nonetheless, the case is generally misunderstood and trotted out as evidence of lawsuits run amok, which it is not. I have seen far stupider cases -- and paid to settle them since the cost of trying a stupid case can be more than an extortive settlement.

-- Jay Beattie.