Stand Up for Your Rights Wisconsin, a group trying to raise awareness about the “tort reform” legislation being pushed
forward by Republicans, has released a new video titled “A Cryin’ Shame” highlighting the impact tort reform legislation will have on victims here in Wisconsin.
If you’d like to learn more about Stand Up for Your Rights Wisconsin you can visit their Facebook page.
I don’t agree at all with your analogy of this bill! Way to extreme! We need to go forward with Tort Reform, way to much $$ being awarded to victims of accidentaly deaths that are beyond the control of the businesses. If it is proven that intent was there to cause harm, and or cause the death of an individual, I’m all for strick enforcement, but only if direct intent is evident.
So lawrence you trust Scott Walker to decide damages instead of a jury and judge? So you are for an expanse of government…
How would that be an expanse?
It’s funny you guys are always accusing big, eeeevil corporate interests of killing “good” legislation by misrepresenting the issue, yet you fail to follow that logic and see that trial attorneys are doing the very same thing here.
because instead of using the best justice system in the world by having a trial with a judge and jury, the caps have been set by Scott Walker. To me that is a Huge expansion of government interference.
There’s a documentary out there called Hot Coffee. http://www.hotcoffeethemovie.com.
Turns out the elderly woman who sued McDonalds many years ago after one of their styrofoam cups came apart in her lap had 3rd degree burns on 16% of her body, spent eight days in the hospital, and had to have skin grafts to recover. McDonalds had a policy at the time that coffee should be brewed at 187 degrees farenheit to lengthen its shelf life freshness. Most home coffemakers produce coffee at roughly somewhere between 140 to 160 degrees farenheit.
I remember this case and also remember thinking at the time it was ridiculous that anyone would sue McDonalds for two million dollars over a cup of spilled coffee. Of course, I didn’t know they were serving magma in a styrofoam cup.
Plus Steve, if I remember right, she just wanted her hospital bills covered and they refused. Plus they appealed so much she did not end up with much.
Plus Steve, if I remember right, she just wanted her hospital bills covered and they refused. Plus they appealed so much she did not end up with much.