I was hit on my bike while in Law school, was driver’s fault. AND, they lied to their ins-co. (means: claims adjuster said she believed me, and not their client, was the wife that hit me).

So I said, at that time “Do you want to settle with me soon, or do you want me to ‘hire’ my professor?”

We settled within 4months for about 10k plus meds plus a new wheel and handlebars (on a Colnago racing bike)… I could have slimed them for about 50k just by finding a lawyer to write a letter or three…

didn’t!

ZENmud aka Drew

Randy, that conceived the ‘Stella Awards’, is a cool guy, a one-man-band, living in Colorado! Take a moment to visit the site…

http://www.stellaawards.com/

He is NOT a ‘corporate shill’… you’ve obviously made up your mind based on my pal Bart’s comments.

I AGREE with Bart about ‘Stella v McDo’s’…

Did you read these awards?

A burglar getting 14K from one of YOU: a homeowner he ROBBED?

A woman who tripped over her own SON? (what effect on him we don’t know…) 80K from a furniture store… (prices going up…)

Lawsuits are a GREAT HAMMER to stop corp BS (see the Stella sentence above)… but they’ve also become ‘our god-given right’ to promote IRRESPONSIBILITY…

What happened to YOUR furniture store, with the bad publicity when some BIMBO tripped over her son and dragged you into court and the PRESS?

I’ve been a contributor to Bart for many a years, writings and helping his first two annual budgets

ZENmud aka Drew
http://crystelZENmud.blogspot.com

The cases listed in this article are at best, incomplete, and at worst outright fabrications. This is not to say that there are never outrageous lawsuits filed, but in most cases the jury can recognize such cases for what they are. After all, anyone can sue anyone else over anything. In fact, some of the worst frivolous lawsuits have been filed by large companies for the sole purpose of putting their smaller competitors out of business.

For anyone interested in actual lawsuits, I recommend Randy Cassingham’s page The TRUE Stella Awards. There you can find all the facts about the McDonald’s coffee case, as well as others. It’s really okay to laugh at the antics of our fellow man – but let’s not stoop to making shit up to achieve some kind of political points.

Since Stella isnt here to defend herself,I am forced to remind some of an inconvienient fact:
The McDonalds coffeepot manufacturer was using
inferior thermostats valued at around .15 cents
per unit.
when these malfunctioned, the coffee tested well
above the temperatures needed to cause serious burns.

below is a snippet from an article about Tom Delay and a frivolous lawsuit where he sued a manufacturer in a wrongful deathsuit and then turned around and pulled the plug on his own gray-haired daddy:

“Further raising the hypocrisy quotient, in 1990 DeLay’s family sued a manufacturer whose negligence they claimed caused the tram to careen out of control. The wrongful death suit, which included an affidavit filed by DeLay, was settled in 1993 for an undisclosed sum, believed to be $250,000″

Here is a link to the original text:
http://www.dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=18151

I’m sorry but this post missed the mark,
usually it is excellent and I commend the mysterious Barto and Grim for the rest.

Propoganda by corporate America to limit class action and liability all together.

McDonalds was warned over and over not to go into the pre-set coffee machines and set them to a higher temperature (shitty coffee tastes better when really hot – known fact).

The coffee was so hot it put 3rd Degree burns on the old woman’s private parts. She deserved to win that case! Corporations have to much power and McDonalds was justly smacked down!!!!

Some serious Joementum going on there.