>>715717157
the slander campaign that they ran should've been cause for millions more in damages to that poor granny. All the fucking moron AM talk show radio hosts who ran with that story for literal decades after that as a way to show that americans are weak idiots who need a nanny state to look after them are clueless, disingenuous dipshits. Yes we all know coffee is hot. It should not be served literally BOILING. It was so fucking hot it fused her clothes to her fucking skin.

Regulations are written in blood.

>>715717830
basically, yes. it's babby's first introduction to the world of American tort law.
>but how is that legal? How is it ethical???
Because companies have somehow convinced the American public that if they allowed more lawsuits and had to follow more safety regulations, that they would all go bankrupt. :( The EU has far, far more regulations and they still rake in money hand over fist for their shareholders.

I had a professor who was a Gordon Gecko type Harvard law/finance graduate who worked directly in corporate finance/legal for a long time and argued that the real benefit to a publicly held corporation is that they're predictable. Predictable in that they will ALWAYS do what's in their best interest, no matter what, so any laws written around them will be followed to the absolute limit of said law.

He also said never, ever try to game the stock market because the sheer amount of insider knowledge you will never have means that you will always lose in the long run. Of course he was speaking anecdotally from his own personal experience but I trust his judgement. Don't bet against the house when they make the rules and know what the cards are at the same time