How suits like this actually make it to court sickens me.
THAT is the problem. Tort reform is the beginning of the answer. Trial lawyers are to blame for every single freedom taken away from us in this country. From losing our freedom to swim in the local swimming hole because some idiot couldn't read a sign to restrictions on guns to the prices of our medications. Heck, they tried to take my sinus pills away because a few people CLAIM they don't know that anything ending in an "ine" is SPEED.
I have noticed that since the left brought all of it's power to bear to attack the president over Iraq, he has been silent on his two pet peeves : environazi regulations and trial lawyers in general. There was a time recently when EVERY speech by the president had a mention of trial lawyers. I'm not hearing that anymore. His vendetta against trial lawyers and the damage they cause to all of us is one of the things I admire most about him.
I miss it, and don't think it's a coincidence that he has been forced to stop while fending off concerted attacks from the left.
We won't get our country back until we get the ability to reign in the trial lawyers. The good news is the SCOTUS overturning some ruinous awards from tobacco lawsuits and SUV lawsuits, so maybe we have a beginning going on quietly after all.