TWO WORDS: Tort Reform
Better choice, one word, "appeal".
SWA cannot pay a cent of this award. Other passengers will.
Dear SWA: I would rather pay more on my next ticket to fight this award, than to pay this loser and her slimeball lawyer the big bucks...
right on! this is worth 27.5 million? Give me a break! I wonder how treatment would be back in Iran?
If it gets the show "Airline", a show dealing with drunk passengers who get booted from a SouthWest flight, off the air it's worth it.
My first thought exactly! This is one of the many things that's destroying our civil society. Of course the tort shysters (John Edwards is a perfect example) will take their 40% and become rich and at the same time make our society more litigious than ever. It's also become a form of legal shake-down because many innocent defendants will pay damages just to avoid the agony of prolonged litigation, infinite time wasted, and bad publicity. Do you think it's an accident that our Congress consists mostly of attorneys and is an extension of the trial lawyer lobby? Shakespeare was right - "first kill all the lawyers!"