Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 15, 2004 10:16 PM
Personal injury lawyers want a law system where the property of liability is conservative and completely transferrable. That way, no matter what stupid thing that you do that got you injured, they can follow the liablity chain until they find pockets with lots of money in them. They aren't interested in finding who was really responsible. Defective products happen, and people get hurt, but more often it is defective people use perfectly good products and get hurt (do you need a label telling you not to pick up a running lawn-mower and use it to trim a hedge?).
There are some legal priciples with unforseen consequences that make these cases difficult, but usually these cases gravitate to caches of money, and stay there.
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Spoken like a true IANAL
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 15, 2004 10:16 PMThere are some legal priciples with unforseen consequences that make these cases difficult, but usually these cases gravitate to caches of money, and stay there.
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