Subj : Re: Um...no comment?
To   : Finnigann
From : Deuce
Date : Sat Sep 17 2005 07:07 pm

  Re: Re: Um...no comment?
  By: Finnigann to Frank Reid on Sat Sep 17 2005 12:47:00

 >  FR> What you *could* cap are the punitive awards from frivilous lawsuits
 >  FR> that result in skyrocketing malpractice suits.  Willing to do that?
 > 
 > Sure, as soon as you figure out how to limit damages. Just put up a chart wh
 > limbs are worth, eyesight etc.
 > 
 > Hey it might turn out to be cheaper to kill the poor...

He specified punitive awards, not liability awards.  A puniative award is to
make the offender feel the owch.  Fox example, say Microsoft had a case go to
court... liability damages were awarded at oh, say $5mil.  But say that since
MS can sneeze 5mil and toss it out on the kleenex, the court felt that MS
should do something about it, so tack on an extra 150mil in punitive damages to
make them sit up and notice.

In that case, the guy would end up with $155mil for his lost finger (or
whatever) not because HE desereved it for what he went through, but because MS
deserved to pay it for putting him through it.

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