Jerry Lightfoot discusses fighting frivolous lawsuit

[mfarraher]

If you sell a defective product, (even if you didn't make the product) then you are liable for damages if it hurts someone. But, the store owner can sue the manufacturer, in turn for supplying you with the defective product. This safeguards that the injured party (consumer) doesn't have to try to find the Chinese manufacturer that the storeowner bought it from... So tired of people blaming the legal system for their problems. The legal system was designed people much smarter than ol' Jerry here.

[KuostA]

@mfarraher THANK you.

[samatention]

It sounds like you sold the person a faulty piece of wood that did not met the grade the building code required for a floor joist. If it was stamped then you should go after your supplier for selling you dangerous and bad merchandise.

The builder got sued because it was his reasonability to supervise make sure his subs and personal use the safety equipment was used. He did not. It does not seem frivolous to me.

[xxoxmyself]

But then why did the man who almost fell get sued

[neofeudal]

Wood breaks. Trees fall down. Sue God?

Your solution, that everybody should just sue everybody is not a solution. If there was fault, then it should be pursued, but the way this stuff works, the insurance companies settle rather than fight.

It is pathetic and it is not justice.

[studiosinger]

These businesses need for form an LLC so they can't suffer personal financial losses!

[neofeudal]

Huh? LLCs still have to pay for frivolous lawsuits. So...the business goes out of business and BYE BYE go the jobs!

[neothomist1275]

"The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families, all the nurseries, all the schools, all the workshops, all the secondary institutions that once had some authority of their own. Everything is ultimately brought into the Law Courts. We are trying to stop the leak at the other end." -- GK Chesterton

[paralegal2b]

This is a worker's compensation claim, where the defendant in the video was sued under the deep pockets theory of recovery. Claimants seek the payment of on the job injuries within the scope of their employment. The question of who should be sued does arise and hopefully can be better answered through legislatiion and case law.

If his company made the ceiling joist that broke how would this be frivolous? That would be a valid products liability claim.

[revobum]

I will call there bluff. OCBM never treats anyone right... A family member of mine got injured from Shelby horse playing and he refused to file a accident report, do you what to know what happened next? She got laid off, ohh wait if you lay some one off you can not fill there position the next day...it was only two days and they had a new girl.. I feel sorry for the employees at the Kirbyville location... Mr. Bill would roll over in his grave if he could see that store now.