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From: William Donzelli <aw288_at_osfn.org>
Date: Tue Jun 13 20:45:30 2000

> No, you can sue in the second case also. (Well, you can almost *always*
> sue. The real question is can you win.)

Very good point. In fact, it is the fault of the media and the public's
tendency to overreact that has caused all of this lawsuit madness.

Basically, it is not nearly as bad as everyone thinks. While at a horrid
document scanning job once a few years back, I tackled a job that
involved thousands of personal injury cases. The nature of the job had me
reading (or skimming, really) the OCR'd results. Anyway, the first thing
that struck me is that a huge number of cases are thrown out of court
almost instantly. The second thing is that for the cases that won,
damages tend to be the medical expenses and a small amount extra. In
those thousands, I only saw _one_ case that resulted in a seven figure
settlement, and _very_ few that were in the six figures.

William Donzelli
aw288_at_osfn.org
Received on Tue Jun 13 2000 - 20:45:30 BST