You DO settle when you believe going through trial and getting a jury verdict of guilty, thereby potentially costing you 330 Million, or 3 billion, is a real possibility. Most of these big business decisions are that, strictly business decisions. So don’t get upset at the outcome!
The company did what they had to do. It’s the plaintiffs I take issue with.
About 15 years ago, I sat in on a mach trial event where a Coca-Cola truck t-boned a couple girls who ran a stop sign, killing one girl, and maiming the other. Clearly, it was not Coke’s fault. However, while the jury delivered a not guilty verdict, several in the jury posed, “Yes, it was not Coke’s fault, but Coke is so big, why can’t they pay like 2.5M$ to the parents/girls to help them out?” It is this kind of nonsense these big companies run into. Coca-Cola settled on THAT “accident” as well, making a nominal payment, even though it was not their fault. It was far more beneficial as a business decision to pay something than to send these poor people packing and take on the widespread dsgust that might affect the bottom line.
The problemmis now though that future suits will get to point to,this lawsuit and claim that the manufacturer was in essence admitting guilt by paying off, and now the left get to perpetrate the lie that ar-15’s are “military grade weapons of war” by the manufacturer’s own implied admission in view of the settlement.
This was a big loss and capitulation to the left, and sets up further lawsuits against not just gun manufacturers but also and object used in the killing of others. This is bad news as it is gonna turn into a free-for-all agaisnt companies that make objects that can be used to kill others with, no matter what it is
I onowmits not a slam dunk for future lawsuits agaisnt manufacturers, but thye are getting closer and closer to,suing everyone into oblivion now. Now every death by gun will be argued as the manufacturer “creating and targetting and selling weapons of death to the mentally ill.”