Stop Bad Lawsuits

[TheMercenary]

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A sample:

A Long Island widow claimed that her husband’s death resulted from an injury sustained while dodging a piece of flying shrimp at the Japanese steakhouse Benihana. Both AP and the New York Times covered the trial.

The Times reported that the plaintiff’s lawyer told the jury on summation that “a flying piece of hot grilled shrimp” thrown by an irresponsible chef “set into motion an unbroken chain of interrelated events” that led to the plaintiff’s death 10 months later. Benihana’s lawyer reportedly said there was no proof that the neck injury caused plaintiff’s death, and asked the jury, “How in God’s name can this be related to Benihana?”

The man’s widow alleged he injured his neck while trying to avoid a hot shrimp playfully tossed at him by a table-side hibachi chef at Benihana, the Japanese steakhouse chain, that Colaitis’s neck injury required an operation, that an apparent infection necessitated another procedure and ten months after dodging the shrimp, he was dead of a blood-borne infection.

It took the jury just two hours to reject the claims. Some opponents of liability reform might use this as evidence that the system works, but Benihana had to pay the cost of the attorney time required to prepare for and defend a four-week trial, which was certainly in the six digits, and perhaps the seven digits, effectively punishing them for not paying protection money.