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frivolous lawsuits
I'm a little surprised that there aren't more people itching to talk here about tort reform -- Hello! aside -- I mean, what could be more interesting? -- so perhaps I'll get the ball rolling a little. One of the tough questions is what kinds of cases are the "frivolous lawsuits" that the President keeps talking about. Take this example:
- A man provides a car for his teenage daughter to drive. Through no fault of her own, the daughter is involved in a minor fender bender. No one is hurt and the property damage is less than $2,500. The father could just turn the claim into his insurance company and be done with it. Instead, when he learns that the other driver was in a rental car and that the rental company provided the car to a driver with a suspended license, the father sues the rental car company for the property damage.
Frivolous or not?
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“It was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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