Posted on 02/15/2005 7:09:35 AM PST by edcoil
Tsunami victims to sue French hotel chain Accor, Thai govt, US authorities
VIENNA (AFX) - A group of Austrian and German victims of the Asian tsunami disaster are to file a lawsuit demanding that Thailand, French hotel chain Accor (Paris: FR0000120404 - news) and US forecasters prove they reacted adequately to the disaster, their lawyers said. The suit, naming Accor and the US-run tsunami early warning system in the Pacific as well as Thai authorities, will be filed in a New York district court this week, the lawyers said in Vienna.
I did a cannonball in the pool and created a little tsumani.
NOAA does not have a responsibility to forecast anything, hence they aren't liable. It is not a service they have contracted with the board of tourism in Thailand. This is merely the case of lawyers looking for deep pockets to sue resulting from the tragedy.
brother.......i hate lawyers.
Well, they came to the right country to sue. We're good for that.
where's the link to the story? thanks.
Wiping tort lawyers out would be the best thing to happen.
What a ridiculous, baseless suit. I think these victims families are being traumatized again by being fleeced by these lawyers.
My first thought is that this must be a joke. But once the shock wore off, I thought about it a bit. I believe that to demonstrate "liability," one would have to show that the US system was somehow warranted to be able to predict, and/or that the company that made the system owed some specific duty to the people actually suing. (Any company with a halfway decent lawyer would make sure any sale contract includes fom language discaliming warranties.) Maybe the courts will somehow dispense with those types of requirements. but if there is any verdict against a company providing a warning system, they will probably declare bankruptcy and NO ONE will ever get into the business of tsunami prediction again, for fear of litigation risk.
That's a much better outcome than letting the greedy evil corporations avoid responsibility for their actions. (sarcasm)
Maybe it is a government entity being sued and not a private company. I don't know.
What are the tourists' damages anyway? Wrongful death or injury? Property loss, "emotional distress," etc.?
Well, that was inevitable.
Here is the link.
http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/050215/323/fcing.html
Yes we did it ....no we did not sit idly by while the tsunami raced towards its destiny with mahem....WE GENERATED IT!!!!!!!!
Take that third world....don't f--k with us....next time it will be an asteroid.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
(tongue firmly planted in cheek)
Plead guilty and pay them a penny, divided amongst them all equally.
Even money the French try to make a deal for themselves rather than fight.
Make the LOSER pay the WHOLE BILL as well as REIMBURSING us for ADDITIONAL COSTS to be named later.
Greedy, Callous Sickos.
Accor, because they have deep pockets ("we'll leave the light on...") and the US, well, because we are the world's whipping boy.
Ditto!
Mike
This should be thrown out before the ink dries on the documents.
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