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| previous: Chris B Business idea, and a few questions -- 4/16/2003 4:16 AM |  |
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The dark side...
 4/16/2003 3:08 PM |
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| R.G. | The dark side...
Absolutely. You remember all that stuff in the newspapers about frivolous lawsuits? Selling anything that could conceivably damage anyone in any way puts you on the wrong side of that. The torts lawsuit industry functions as a kind of lottery. If someone can cobble together any kind of damage you've done them, even if the court holds that you're only 1% responsible and someone else 99% responsible, YOU can be held liable for the entire amount of the damages. And damages may be made punitive, to punish you for some kind of real or imagined malevolence. And it's hard to imagine any product you could sell that would NOT open you to tort actions. Remember that cup of coffee that MacDonalds sold that nice lady? Warning labels are a minimum, but they are not sufficient. People have sued and collected for injuries sustained when working with power tools made decades before they were hurt, where the user who got hurt had purposely removed or deactivated protective shields and guards that had been designed to keep them from being injured. R.G. | |
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