It is cases like this that make the proponents of having “professional juries” look reasonable. Even the plaintiff’s bloodsucker did not know where the figure came from …. gotta love it. Good luck trying to get the $$$
The Indiana jurors are idiots as is the judge for allowing such a ridiculous award. They must think money grows on trees. I have always advocated professional jurors akin to Japan. Their system provides for well-educated and well-compensated professionals who are free of emotional bias and subjectivity. What does our great country have? We get a “jury of our peers”. Bullcrap. When have you ever seen a jury of anybody’s peers? We get people off the strict who are angry they got picked for jury duty. Of course the un-educated and un-employed are always thrown into the mix. In spite of another stupid and embarassing example of America’s badly flawed legal system, I only hope the company that made the stand is out of business, has no assets, and is otherwise un-collectible.
rather than cabbage, I think we need to refer to the old adage: “you can’t get blood out of a turnip”. appears the chance of getting ANYTHING in this settlement is extremely remote. having the piece of paper that says they owe you and having the $ are two separate things.
Hoping the company is out of business is pretty tough on the spouse, don’t you think. I agree that the cash amount is way out of line, but to wish that the spouse will collect nothing after her loss is not very good either.
You could ask the same question of attorneys and judges. At least with professional jurors, we’d get some consistency. Rotating the position of jury foreperson would help.
The stand was not defective. We (the deer)were just messin’ with the guy. He’d fallen asleep in the stand with a bottle of Jack in his hand. The whole herd rushed the tree and startled him. He didn’t know what to do, try to get a shot off, or catch the bottle of Jack. He lost his balance and got his foot caught in the stand. We didn’t want to get sued so we had Charlie the squirrel climb up and remove the pin to make it look like a products case.
Wonder how long it will take for this country to be completely drained dry of anything good. Every system that has been developed as a safty net for people who were unfortunate enough to have an accident, has been abused.
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It is cases like this that make the proponents of having “professional juries” look reasonable. Even the plaintiff’s bloodsucker did not know where the figure came from …. gotta love it. Good luck trying to get the $$$
The Indiana jurors are idiots as is the judge for allowing such a ridiculous award. They must think money grows on trees. I have always advocated professional jurors akin to Japan. Their system provides for well-educated and well-compensated professionals who are free of emotional bias and subjectivity. What does our great country have? We get a “jury of our peers”. Bullcrap. When have you ever seen a jury of anybody’s peers? We get people off the strict who are angry they got picked for jury duty. Of course the un-educated and un-employed are always thrown into the mix. In spite of another stupid and embarassing example of America’s badly flawed legal system, I only hope the company that made the stand is out of business, has no assets, and is otherwise un-collectible.
rather than cabbage, I think we need to refer to the old adage: “you can’t get blood out of a turnip”. appears the chance of getting ANYTHING in this settlement is extremely remote. having the piece of paper that says they owe you and having the $ are two separate things.
Do you think professional jurors would become tainted over time? It seems after awhile they would become numb because of all they might see and hear.
Hoping the company is out of business is pretty tough on the spouse, don’t you think. I agree that the cash amount is way out of line, but to wish that the spouse will collect nothing after her loss is not very good either.
Haven’t people in Indiana heard of LIFE INSURANCE? I suppose a reasonable award would be in order.
You could ask the same question of attorneys and judges. At least with professional jurors, we’d get some consistency. Rotating the position of jury foreperson would help.
The stand was not defective. We (the deer)were just messin’ with the guy. He’d fallen asleep in the stand with a bottle of Jack in his hand. The whole herd rushed the tree and startled him. He didn’t know what to do, try to get a shot off, or catch the bottle of Jack. He lost his balance and got his foot caught in the stand. We didn’t want to get sued so we had Charlie the squirrel climb up and remove the pin to make it look like a products case.
Wonder how long it will take for this country to be completely drained dry of anything good. Every system that has been developed as a safty net for people who were unfortunate enough to have an accident, has been abused.