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Miami, Chicago Attorneys Suing Boeing in Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Crash
Two years after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared, the airplane still hasn't been found, but attorneys for the passengers' families are ready to lay the blame at the door of Boeing Co. Miami law firm Podhurst Orseck and the Hays Firm in Chicago filed 30 lawsuits in Illinois state court March 2 against the Chicago-based aircraft maker, claiming the investigation into the crash has ruled out every explanation except a defect in the Boeing 777. (www.dailybusinessreview.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Lawyers are barnacles on the ship of society. Shakespeare was right about them.
(Until you need one.)
And then they are barnacles on your ship!
Let's face it, barnacles would do a better job.
>> claiming the investigation into the crash has ruled out every explanation except a defect in the Boeing 777.
The official investigations haven't ruled out ANYTHING yet and won't do so until they have actual evidence. Of course that won't stop some lawyers looking for a big payday...
The official investigations haven't ruled out ANYTHING yet and won't do so until they have actual evidence. Of course that won't stop some lawyers looking for a big payday...
I'm curious - if that's so, wouldn't those cases be thrown out as frivolous?
A couple of things: 1 Statute of Limitations coming up, so these suits are basically placeholders, 2 Some suits are filed with the assumption that the respondent will settle just to make it go away. Some might call that extortion. 3 As John (canuck44) has said, USA does not have loser-pays rules which might curtail some of the more frivolous extortions.
Frequently, judges rule the loser of a court case is saddled with paying the court costs.