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WCDT Strips 3266 to 3270 (18th to 22nd July 2016)
Morituri:
Okay, third degree burns is a lot more serious than second, I'll give it that. I've known a bunch of people who got third degree burns too though; accidents with hot oil mostly. A few got disability but most of them (all who could still walk in fact) were denied. None of them got multimillion dollar settlements. You don't even consider filing a lawsuit unless something unusual happens.
Erf. I'm going to quit responding to this because I fear my responses are likely to generate more heat than light. I will say however that down in the real world where there is absolutely NOTHING unusual about getting injured in an accident - even BADLY injured as in permanently disabling - the idea that someone who hadn't even been disabled had been taken seriously when suing, AND recovered more than twice their medical costs, read like a missive from bizarro world about someone who had some unbelievable kind of privilege or entitlement that the rest of the world just didn't get. Bad as her experience may have been, a whole lot of people who suffered worse routinely and knew damn well we'd have been laughed at if we'd tried to sue, sort of resented it.
Eternal_Newbie:
Well, it's not her fault that quite often the law gets creatively interpreted against the employee in occupational injury cases and employers find creative ways of avoiding creating a safe workplace and dissuading employees from seeking compensation, even when creating a safe workplace (or even paying compensation) would be cheaper .
hedgie:
The whole company did. And IIRC, regulators had warned them on multiple occasions.
Gyrre:
Third degree burns to her crotch and lap.
Imagine that hot oil you mentioned getting spilled on your junk. Sounds pretty painful, right?
Tova:
I realise you've stopped responding, and yes I've refrained from posting because otherwise I would have reacted to the ignorance you've displayed with more heat than light. But I will point out that the money awarded was punitive damages, not compensatory damages, Mori. It makes all the difference in the world. Google it.
When companies recklessly endanger their customers, they will get sued. This is not because we live in a bizzaro world, nor because of some sense of "entitlement."
You're talking about accidents, presumably not the result of reckless endagerment, which is the reason they didn't get multimillion dollar awards.
Please educate yourself on the difference between compensatory and punitive damages.
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