I could have gone the legal route many times,
but didn’t. I’ve never had a lawyer, except for the paperwork for my house.
woman here in Iowa lost her leg in a combine accident
and sued John Deere for millions of dollars.
hmmm.
First I don’t know how many lawsuits there are, to judge if they are too many or too few.
Second I think even one lawsuit is too much. Because people should be able to avoid offending each other.
Assuming you are asking about America’s notoriously litigious culture, the primary reason that the US has so many lawsuits is that it is a permissive and open claim jurisdiction. So long as you can assert a set of facts that support a claim of damages, your matter can make it into the courts. There is no list of claims that are permitted or not, there is no canonical definition of what are cognizable damages and what are not, and there is no requirement other than assertion of facts to get past a motion to dismiss. If you have (1) standing, (2) jurisdiction, (3) facts, and (4) damages, your claim will proceed. And that, my friends, is about as low a bar for civil claims as there can possibly be.
There remain, alas, many countries where the rule of law has not yet displaced brute (i.e. abusive) individual or collective power.
I met a real conservative person, (maybe like you) who said you had lawyers who were ambulance chasers.
When does bodily damage get money or not, it depends upon who you’re suing.
Probably in yucky USA. Eewwww
I once lived in an apartment that had extensive flooding in one room because the windows weren’t set properly and it was awful. Like- the carpet squished when you stepped on it. We let management know, but they didn’t do anything about it. We had to move our daughter out of that room. Then, mold grew. We read our lease and it said we had to send a total of three handwritten letters followed by a letter in certified mail. After that, we had to give them a “timely amount” of time to fix it. They never did, so we moved out. They tried to sue us. We got a lawyer to get them to back off.
The point of this is that sometimes lawyers are necessary. We’ve used one two other times, and it was great to have them there.
I think there’s too many and the high cost of medical care in the US is partially due to it.
IDK because I have no idea how many lawsuits there are. It was getting ridiculous about ten or fifteen years ago because people were filing lawsuits at the drop of a hat over the most trivial and ridiculous things.
I got told I could have sued my former employer for firing me for being sick. They also fired my partner and she had a doctor’s note
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I think that really sucks that you’re not even allowed to get sick nowadays without the fear or reality of losing your job!!! I’d hate to be a worker nowadays.
I was hallucinating and I had insurance through my work but instead of making sure i got help rhey fired me on the spot.
My partner has diabetes and her sugar was out of control she had a doctor’s note excusing her for the day she missed they fired her
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