"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message ...

If this is true, you are viewing what has become one of the prime reasons associated with the virtual end of General
Aviation as at least I knew it for the first 25 years I was involved in aviation.
It's the trial lawyers. They will go after anything and everything with deep pockets involved in an accident. They
operate in conditions like these on the premise that REGARDLESS of the appropriate and inappropriate actions of a
pilot, if one screw was out of place on the aircraft itself, the manufacturer can be litigated for financial gain.
In many cases, it is my understanding that manufacturers simply "settle" the suits rather than defend them based upon
specific lawyers reputations for their ability to sway juries.
It's nothing but sheer extortion in the majority of the cases.

A truly unfortunate aside to this "practice" is that the phony litigations are so frequent and so costly, there is a
very good chance that the legitimate cases where there actually is just cause for a lawsuit are often looked at in the
same jaundiced eye by the public as the phony cases and true justice can suffer.
The lawyers can be "congratulated" for literally destroying not only GA, but for the most part, the publics' faith and
dependence in a true and honest justice system.

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Dudley Henriques

This has been going on for a very long time! Sue McDonalds because you spilled coffee on your lap? Sue Parker because
the pilot followed a failing gyro into the ground? This is not new news, and the sheep in the USA simply eat it up,
because maybe, just maybe, their ticket will come in and they, too, can hit it big! It is the lotto mentality that is
dragging us down. No wonder there are so many jobs available for the immigrant worker; many americans simply don't think
they need to do a hard days work, and that they are entitled to a better life without doing the work...