[OXENinFLA]

Well, I bet he didn't think the case would turn out like this........

[OXENinFLA]

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[OXENinFLA]

I wonder what the amount was that he turned down?

[Belisaurius]

YES!!!!

[AppyPappy]

Does his lawyer have to pay 40% of the settlement?

[TommyDale]

If only North Carolina and other states would adhere to a similar statute, these nonsensical lawsuits by "professional plaintiffs" would stop.

[Puppage]

He who represents himself.......

[theDentist]

I hope there's a lien on his property somewhere to make sure he pays it.

[sinkspur]

This kinda stuff would happen ALL THE TIME if we had the British system of loser pays.

There'd be fewer of these nuisance lawsuits, too.

[Southack]

Yes!

[bert]

No problemo.... at his old job, he'll have it paid off in about 4 years.

[flying Elvis]

Yeah, with the jury only taking an hour to decide, it looks like his case was pretty thin.

[Crazieman]

Loser pays is the way to go

Works for England, they still have plenty of legit lawsuits. Companies still can't brutally kill people with a product and get away with it - as much as the dems would like you to believe.

[Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh]

I think a lot of the uninformed people who cry for "tort reform" don't realize that there are already protections like this one that are built into the law to discourage unreasonable claims/demands, etc.

[jwalsh07]

Cool.

[Imaverygooddriver]

Finally a judge with brains. If anyone read the NY Post the other day, here in New York they awarded a heorin addict $3.5 million because while in jail he went through withdrawals and claimed he couldn`t breathe, like all junkies do when they can`t get a fix, so the gaurds put him on oxegen and he claimed that the oxegen gave him brain damage. So the other brain damaged on the jury decided to make the junkie a millionaire. Gee, where do you think that money is going to be spent on?

[HIDEK6]

Why does a guy who makes 150K drive a Honda?

[Common Tator]

I'll bet it is a while before someone files a damage suit like this in this Judges court.

We need more judges like this one. It has been my observation as a reporter, that verdicts by most juries in civil suits are influenced by the judge. The judges vocal inflection and body language when delivering the charge has a great effect on the verdict.

[Puddleglum]

It is sad the number of "experts" he was able to line up on his behalf:

The plaintiff's expert witnesses included his treating physicians Drs. Lawrence Copeland, Paul Stewart, Aksay Sood and Syed Akbarullah, all from Las Vegas. Variale also presented testimony from physicians at the National Jewish Medical Center in Denver: Drs. Robert Bethel, Todd Kingdom and Craig Glazer. Gary Bakken, a warnings expert from Tucson, Ariz.; and Terrence Claurettie, a Las Vegas economist, also testified for the plaintiff.

I have never been on a jury that had to weed through "expert-for-hire" testimony, but I hope jurors are becoming skeptical of them.

[Anti-MSM]

A picture of the plaintiff after the decision:

[marblehead17]

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