Class action lawsuits where the company has been polluting for years and has covered up the fact. You buy a new home at a nice location. A couple of years later you have a kid who is horribly malformed. Then you discover its due to pollutants seeping into your house. Your neighbours discover the same thing.
In this case $10,000,000 is not going to cover the costs by a long shot. btw look up the Love Canal case - what I described is what happened there. Or how about this example, you make over 100,000 per year. Because of the manufacturer's negligence your seatbelt fails in an accident and you're left with serious brain injuries that prevent you from working, and leaves you with medical bills of much more than 500,000, and annual care costs exceeding 100,000. Your arbitrary cap will not cover that. Moverover for a lot of companies, 10,000,000 may be chump change - think of Dupont Chemical or microSoft. >I said 10,000,000 not 10,000. If 10,000,000 is not enough to cover >'damages' then I think there are bigger issues. I have no issue with making >companies pay for wrong doing, but I think suing a dry cleaners for >$5,000,000 because they lost your pants or suing McDonalds because the >coffee they served you was hot and you spilled it while trying to drive and >drink it at the same time is just a tad bit over board. > >Also, I don't think what I said would be considered 'whining'. I merely was >trying to state that maybe our tax dollars could be better spent than >muddling through obviously frivolous lawsuits like the 3 quadrillion dollar >lawsuit, like maybe rebuilding the levees the right way. But I guess its >better that we cower to these lawsuits than actually try to fix the >problem. There are already mechanisms to cover frivolous lawsuits. > >Anyone who willingly (key word there is WILLINGLY) lives in a coastal city >that is, on average, 6 feet below sea level and has their house flooded will >get no sympathy from me and should only be able to sue Mother Nature for >their losses. > Yeah right, if you have the money and wherewithall to move. Many of those left in NO had no cars, and no money. So where could they go. Given what you just said I'm surprised you don't advocate making poverty a capital crime and shooting the poor. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:250413 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
