To: Tumbleweed_Connection
ALL these awards are TOTALLY asinine !
Nobody forced this woman or the others to begin and keep smoking.Every business is at risk of being sued out of existence if some whiner can find a dozen jurors who believe in "magic" money that somehow just appears out of thin air. The consumer and taxpayer is the one who pays for everything and it is terrible to reward some fool for poor choices at the expense of those who made good choices.
To: hoosierham
Trial lawyers have figured out how to manipulate the system.
They live in million-dollar mansions, with servants.
They love democrats.
In England, the court system has "loser pays" laws. If you sue somebody and lose, you pay for the defendant's court and legal fees.
28 BILLION!
How about ten trillion?
eleventy quadrillion?
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