Thank you lawyers, thank you Nader, thank you Big Brother.
I once was happy in my non-airbag, non-seatbelt, non-ABS,
non-padded dash, 56 Ford but now I've seen the light - even
contemplating getting a pet health insurance policy (for my cat).
Mike L. (Just noticed there's gas in my gas tank. What, helium is
too expensive? I'm calling a lawyer)
60A,67E,59Bug
> The Plaintiff's bar would say that because of all the suits
on obviously
> unsafe products entering the marketplace, the products that we
have now are
> better and safer. The seminal case in torts class that every
first year law
> school student takes is the product liability suit against Ford
for the Pinto gas
> tank. Remember that? Read the case sometime. Ford actually
determined that it
> would be cheaper to not fit the safety measures to the tank,
such that the cost
> of law suits and settling with families of people horribly
burned to death was
> cheaper than having to modify production on the cars or have a
recall to retro
> fit the tanks.
>
> I fully agree that there are some wacky cases brought by
imbeciles who are
> looking for a buck. I have turned some away. But for every one
or two of those,
> there is actually someone who was genuinely injured through no
fault of their own
> simply because some company wanted to rush a product to market,
or could hide its
> safety record in this country. People say that the only ones
who get rich are
> the lawyers. In my experience, its the insurance companies who
are getting rich,
> from auto insurance to malpractice to product liability
insurance.
>
> Steve.
> Doesn't have a Pinto or any Ford
> No Firestone Wilderness ATX tires
> Heavily insured.
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