It amazes me that people who can't distinguish between 'your' and 'you're' are allowed to manage people
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While some "nonsense lawsuits" do happen, there is a very strong extent to which the notion of "nonsense lawsuits" being an epidemic in America is pro-corporate propaganda. Designed to get people to side with the big guy over the little guy who was wronged by them.
Take the infamous McDonald's coffee lawsuit, for example. The woman in question received third-degree burns. Coffee, the normal way it's served hot, does not do that. Maccas was serving it overly hot. They had even received multiple reports of it being a problem ahead of time. And the woman initially only wanted them to pay for her medical bills. When they refused prior to the lawsuit, she sued. They again refused the offer of medical bills during settlement negotiations, and she rightly won big. Maccas' negligence caused serious harm, and it's right that they were stung for it.
Really, it's not. Every other country looks at the absolute chaos of lawsuit nonsense in America and recoils in horror.
Sure, and in most countries that would be solved by good regulations not lawsuits. As you said, they'd received multiple reports of it being a problem, but the US laissez-faire system means that corporations are free to do whatever they want until someone gets severely injured. In a properly run country this woman would never have been injured, and if she was injured she wouldn't have to rely on lawsuits to get her medical bills paid.