Yale student Jesse Maiman says US Airways lost his XBox videogame console and he thinks $1 million would make a fair exchange. [Cincinnati Enquirer]
Yale student Jesse Maiman says US Airways lost his XBox videogame console and he thinks $1 million would make a fair exchange. [Cincinnati Enquirer]
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It makes plaintiffs and their lawyers look dumb when making an outrageous, clearly unsustainable monetary claim like this. That’s why I supported the 2003 amendment of NY’s CPLR 3017 which now bars a statement of a monetary sum in the complaints in personal injury and medical malpractice lawsuits. Basically, you just set forth the basis for your lawsuit and (with certain exceptions) it is only at the trial that you ask (the jury) for a specific amount.
Oh, I’m sure that a million is just a talking point. He’ll be willing to settle for $900,000.
Bob
We shouldn’t hide the damages that are being requested. The easier it is to see these nonsense claims, the quicker everyone will get sick of all of it. Then we can tear down the whole thing and rebuild it (and hopefully learn from the many many many many mistakes made in this version of the “Justice” system).
On a side note, it doesn’t make the plaintiffs and their lawyers look dumb – it shows off exactly what kind of a$$es they are.
Just an X-Box and no suit-pants?
If I had to guess I’d say this is his attempt at gaining publicity to shake down an airline for some cash. And why mention where he goes to school? Is he expected to be smarter than most and more likely to file a credible suit?
And why mention where he goes to school? Is he expected to be smarter than most and more likely to file a credible suit?
If that was the intent, they shouldn;t have mentioned that he is a Film Studies major.
“And why mention where he goes to school?”
Maybe the author is a harvard grad.
Maybe the author is a harvard grad.
Harvard? Isn’t that the liberal arts school down the river from MIT?
Here’s a case where I think he has a point. I have to fly around with photographic equipment and every now and then I have to check stuff because I have too much to carry.
I’ve had cameras, lenses and PDAs stolen out of my baggage 6 times. (5 of them were at LAX).
If security is so lax that baggage handlers can steal items out of bags and sneak them home to sell on eBay (where one camera turned up!) then how secure are our airlines? One of these folks can easily be paid to sneak something in.
A million dollar lawsuit may be what the airports need to figure out how to be secure. There’s no reason it shouldn’t be as safe to put a valuable piece of equipment in a checked bag as it is to ship it Fed-Ex.