According to a friend who’s a lawyer she once had to explain to someone that she can’t sue her landlord because she slipped on a wet floor, since it was her house and therefore her wet floor. The landlord merely owns the house, but didn’t make the floor wet.
Comment on I cannot imagine what lawsuit led to this
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoYou only hear about the ridiculous lawsuits. Local lawyer used to explain it on the radio all the time.
- Media doesn’t report on the 99.98% of boring, and meritorious lawsuits
- Judges toss frivolous cases
- Lawyers are loath to bring frivolous cases due to reputational harm, even disbarment
Our sense of risk is absurdly out of whack with reality.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
companies also love to make it look like lawsuits are frivolous, when in reality the lawsuit was just “they gave me literally boiling hot coffee, not 40°C, not 50°C, literally 95°C coffee that melted my skin when i spilled it”