Man wins $7.5 million suit in slip and fall

[BurnItDwn]

The irony of a "Doctor" suing and winning (when most of them are whining about medical malpractice suits). :hmm:

It's not a doctor, it's a chiropractor, aka a professional Scam Artist.

 

[HeXen]

I was under the impression that things like "economic damages" and "pain and suffering" were still categorized as "compensatory damages" and that in cases like this where the defendant is a large billion-dollar corporation, the punitive damages were where the exorbitant figures come from -- the reason being that the courts awarded millions and millions of dollars (still a small fraction of the billions in revenue the company collects) in order to achieve a financially punitive effect on the corporation so that such punishments are actually "felt" by the company.

Am I off-base there?

agree 100%.

Even if you see the signs and walk carefully, you can still slip. I've slipped on my own kitchen floor right after i mopped it, going forward, my right leg just kept on going forward before i had much of a chance to prevent it

shit happens guys, he suffered brain injury. leave him alone about it. Don't like it then write your congressman about changing the laws or something productive like that.