You can't sue if your injury is self inflicted

[Andara Bledin]

Urban legend. Sorry. From this site it's easy to believe plenty of parents would try, but if so the courts are dealing with it better than you'd think.

Also apparently a plot in an episode of Boston Legal.

Yeah, Randy Cassingham (the guy that runs the True Stella site and did the awards [no recent updates]) gets really irritated when people pass around fake examples of awful lawsuits when there are so many real and valid examples of people abusing the legal system. No need to make anything up when so often there are real cases that are more maddening than the fake ones.

^-.-^

[mattm04]

Do you want some animal crackers and applesauce to go with that sweaty?

Sorry, I can't think of any other way to respond to such blatant childishness. I'd be afraid to serve her anything harder than straight tapwater less she really hurt herself and hold the bar responsible.

Room temp water as ice water my hurt her or she would choke on the ice, served in a plastic cup.

[tamezin]

The particular customer I was referring to was a cook. He'd set fire to himself. He said himself that it was not his employers fault, and they could have done nothing to prevent him doing it. He just had a clumsy day.

You aren't in the US are you. At one of my company's locations, an agent came in out of the cold winter took off his jacket so he could sit at his desk. He promptly dislocated his shoulder and was able to get workman's comp.

[TWOLF]

My apologies that was in a list of law suites that I had read along with the mcdonalds woman.

[draftermatt]

For instance, I slip on a patch of ice on a sidewalk in the middle of 0º weather in winter, I say to myself "fark, I need to pay more attention", dust myself off, and continue on my way.

I worked with a guy, who I thought was a decent guy.

One winter there had been an ice storm, on his way into the building from the parking lot he fell and screwed up his shoulder pretty bad.

He laid on the ice until the one owner got there and saw him laying there. Owner asked if he needed help or an ambulance. When CW responded no he went inside.

CW ended up needing surgery, IWIF paid for that and the rehab since technically he was hurt on the job.

It's been over 4 years now, he hasn't worked here since Oct 2005.

Recently he told me he was contemplating suing the company because "they should have cleared the lot"

1. He got here at 5:30 AM, only 1 owner was here at the time
2. There was still ice falling
3. He had the option to not come in at all since the weather was so bad out
4. He got paid for his time off (workman's comp) and got the surgery paid for, what exactly can he sue for?

I haven't gone out of my way to talk to him since

[Jay 2K Winger]

I have never seen such a fat lip on a 40 year old woman before.

Really? She hit her lip on the bar as well as her forehead?

Seriously, that's just stupid. Sometimes I'll get kids goofing around at the wholesale club, standing up in the carts and stuff like that, and I'll tell them to sit down, "'cuz if you don't, you could fall and hurt yourself, and then I'll have to point and laugh at you." And I say this in a very friendly, joking tone, and the kids usually do sit down or go to their parents to be lifted out of the cart. And the parents usually start smiling when they hear me say that, too.

This woman in your post was just sofa king (say it fast) stupid.