Posted on 04/26/2015 6:54:41 AM PDT by PROCON
Legal clutter from our litigious society.
It’s everywhere. The legalese. The lawyers’ gobbledygook. The hocus‑pocus and mumbo‑jumbo from a generation dominated by the legal profession. It’s the fallout from our litigious society.
The warning labels and messages are everywhere: on ladders, cigarettes, and lawnmowers, on prescription drugs and alcoholic beverages. Most of these warnings are expected. We hardly recognize them any more. We’ve become jaded and mesmerized by them.
Manufacturers go to laughable lengths to protect their customers from harm, bombarding them with ridiculous warning labels or stunningly obvious explanations of how their products work. Why else would a carton of eggs actually say that the product may contain eggs?
Of course the plaintiff’s bar has had plenty to do with this silly — and costly — trend. Sham product-liability cases can and do rack up Lotto size jury verdicts. According to Jury Verdict Research, which tracks results of personal-injury claims, in 2011 the median jury award in product liability cases was almost $2 million. Today, most likely that median damage award is much higher.
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And don't even get me started on PSAs....
Amen.
My 1997 Polaris ATV has about 40% of the body panel area covered with warning labels, LOL.
I can only imagine what a new one looks like.
Egads, warning labels EVERYWHERE.
/johnny
What warning labels really say:....We warned you about "this"....don't even think lawsuit.
Years ago I drove home to my apartment complex one night to find it on fire, a car parked under the second story units had caught fire.
I watched it for a while and when I spotted the investigator and asked him the cause, he said that two guys had used a cigarette lighter to try and check the fuel level inside the gas tank.
Serious food for thought disguised as humor
I bought a quart of boiled linseed oil for a refinishing project. Besides all the standard warnings about flammability, spontaneous combustion, and cancer studies in California, there was one that really stood out:
Warning: contains linseed oil.
/johnny
I ain’t never been no good at reading word labels. I need me pictures like the hand with cut off fingers on my table saw. I was fixxin to trim my fingernails with it.
When you look at any instruction manual, the first 5 or so pages usually covers all the sorts of “don’t use this toaster in the bathtub” type warnings. I always figure for every one of these seemingly obvious safety warnings, there was a lawsuit somewhere in the past. “This bubble bath is nice. You know what would even make it better? Toasted Pop Tarts!”
My Bonnie looked into the gas tank,
its contents more clearly to see.
She l-it a match to assist her.
Oh bring back my Bonnie to me!
When you read one of those labels, say to yourself, “Somebody did this ... and that person can vote.”
(Even if he’s dead, he can vote Democrat.)
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