My condolences, your son was an idiot.

The President of Bell Helmets told me once that Bell got sued once a week; the attacking lawyer would then immediately try to settle;
["we admit our case against Bell is not very strong [no helmet found] but it will cost you $100K to defend yourself"]
Bell eventually moved production to France.
I am just reporting this...I can't explain it legally

 

True, but to meet consumer's expected price point, when regulatory and litigation costs increase the mfgrs need to seek savings elsewhere. Enter: offshoring.

We have met the enemy, and it is us.

 

How do you not put those two together?

Nope, have you?

 

Actually you only need a single sane person with balls. That person could take a stand and stop idiots like these from getting rewarded. However you will get accused of being cruel and worse I suspect but it needs to be done. Oh and I was tossed as the first candidate when I was called, I know it is a shock

 

Depends on your definition of false.

 

I got seated on a civil case once. The woman filed suit against the driver of a car that hit her claiming she had intolerable back pain and couldn't enjoy simple things like shopping with her mother. She had already passed on the settlement offered by the other party's insurance company.

Most of the jury was ready to give in until I asked the women there how likely it was that she was suffering crippling back pain when she arrived at the trial wearing stilletto heels.

She should have taken the settlement.

 

My sister was tarded once, but now she's a pilot.

 

A boy named Sue!

 

So Bell moved production to a socialist country with strong union representation and a 35hr work week?

 

the "American" rule needs to be re-thought.

If the suing party had to pay the defendant's attorney's fees when they lost, I think you'd see fewer silly law suits.

 

But its also a country with fewer attorneys...

And IIRC, France, like many Asian and EU countries also utilizes professional (trained and educated) jurors.

 

Again ... How does the location of production effect product liabilty cases in the US?

 

It's not so much the people but the lawyers. They get paid either way.

 

I agree, that's how it should be. Then there should be additional penalty for wasting the defendants time.

 

Ironically, I think they still make most of the bicycle helmets in the US in the old Vetter Windjammer facility in Rantoul Illinois.

 

I'd forgotten that they bought Vetter until I looked up Bell's history for a refresher.

Noted Little John's suit against them in `97(?) too.

 

You don't think that the high margin of making a product where you don't have to pay the last generations pension, or the current workers more than equivalent of US $10 a day makes it easier to absorb high dollar lawsuits when they do happen?

 

$10/day? No $ pension plans?

Doesn't sound like France to me...