"RA Samos" wrote in message
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"Kingfish" wrote:

It's gone beyond stupid in this country, when
juries award ridiculous amounts because some scumbag lawyer talked a
grieving widow/widower into suing for damages.

We have here a situation in which there was (probably) one
scumbag lawyer fighting on behalf of the grieving widow, one
(or more) scumbag lawyers fighting on behalf of the FAA and
one scumbag lawyer fighting on behalf of Sun n Fun. The
case couldn't even have been filed without the permission of
the grieving widow, and no damages could have been awarded
without the agreement of the jury and approval of the judge.
Further, this was a settlement, so no money had to be paid
unless the FAA, Sun n Fun and/or their insurance companies
agreed. I'm not a fan of the results we are seeing in cases
like this, but given that there were more scumbags fighting
to stop this than to push it forward, I'm inclined to lay
the blame on juries, judges, the applicable law, grieving
widows/plaintiffs and those who are so willing to settle
rather than fight before I'm going to blame the "scumbags."

YMMV


I'd almost agree with you BUT the scumbags work real hard to keep a group of
SUPER scumbags from passing any laws that would help fix the problem.