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Posted by Alicia Norman on November 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment
A Louisville Kentucky appellate court upheld a ruling that awarded a fast food employee $6 million dollars after she was wrongfully strip searched and sexually assaulted. Victim Louise Ogborn, then 18, was forced to strip naked when someoen called the McDonald’s she was working at pretending to be a police officer. Ogborn received the call [...]
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Posted by Allen P Wilkinson on September 7, 2009 · Leave a Comment
For years, product manufacturers, drug companies, the medical profession, insurance companies, political conservatives, and others have been clamoring for “tort reform” as a partial solution to the economic woes of business. A “tort” involves a personal injury to one person caused by the carelessness (“negligence”) or intentional misconduct (such as an assault) of another person. [...]
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Posted by Alicia Norman on September 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Taco Bell agreed to pay the sum total of $350,000 dollars to two 16-year-old workers after former chain supervisor Terence E. Davis admitted to raping both. Apparently Davis assaulted one victim on her first day of work while the other victim had been attacked earlier. Davis plead guilty and is serving two consecutive eight year [...]
Tort Reform Is Bad for America
Posted by Allen P Wilkinson on September 7, 2009 · Leave a Comment
For years, product manufacturers, drug companies, the medical profession, insurance companies, political conservatives, and others have been clamoring for “tort reform” as a partial solution to the economic woes of business. A “tort” involves a personal injury to one person caused by the carelessness (“negligence”) or intentional misconduct (such as an assault) of another person. [...]
Filed under Commentary · Tagged with accident, damages, defective product, doctors, injured, insurance companies, loss of enjoyment of life, manufacturers, medical, money, non-economic damages, pain and suffering, tort reform, victim