why didn’t they make it 1 trillion, haters
They’ll settle for a few million.
They will never be able to collect all that. I feel bad for the girl, but 1 billion? Does any company have that much available cash?
The courts are a joke.
Its a victory for the girl and her legal team sure. Why is it a “victory for women”? What if there are women who have a finacial interest in the security company...is it a victory for them?
I have long felt that “punitive damages” should be outlawed, for the same reason that ex post facto laws are outlawed.
The judgment will be reduced by orders of magnitude, but this is an example of out of control civil suits. Everyone thinks that this is all free money and “someone else” will pay it. The “someone else” is us in the form of liability insurance premiums. Costs will be passed on to customers or the public who must purchase liability coverage. The result of this will probably be the demise of this security company and since their liabilities will probably will exceed their assets, no one will get any money.
Pocket money for your typical rapist.
The judgment will be reduced by orders of magnitude, but this is an example of out of control civil suits. Everyone thinks that this is all free money and “someone else” will pay it. The “someone else” is us in the form of liability insurance premiums. Costs will be passed on to customers or the public who must purchase liability coverage. The result of this will probably be the demise of this security company and since their liabilities will probably will exceed their assets, no one will get any money.
Wonder how many of the jurors would be able to correct spell and write numerically (forget cursive) one-billion dollars?
From what I read in another thread, the guy is in prison for 20 years and the company went out of business years ago. Who are they going to take all that money from?
Seriously? a billion dollars? Might as well make it a billion * a billion
But as Whoopie would ponder... Was it rape rape?
The verdict is just a message from the jury to the judge that they want the company severely punished.
Liberals undermine employers’ ability to enforce standards like “safe employee” by saying “you’re not allowed to check criminal records of applicants”.
The jury had to be “whistlin’ Dixie”. No way will the victim get anything close to a billion.
Read this last night. $1 Billion dollar judgement against a company that has already gone out of business. Virtue posturing is all this is.