A Case for Tort Reform: Employees get fired after capturing a shoplifter because their employer is afraid of the shoplifter suing them
This one of those stories that make you scratch your head. Check it out here. Two employees on break help a security guard capture a fleeing shoplifter and their employer fires them a few days later for violating company policy. Apparently, most companies prohibit employees from apprehending shoplifters for fear of lawsuits from the shoplifters themselves if they get hurt because someone body slams them to prevent a getaway.
I just think this is most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard of. How does someone who gets hurt in the process of breaking the law even have standing to sue anyone who hurts them while they’re in the midst of committing a crime? It seems to me that someone fool enough to do that was asking for it. If a shoplifter can sue in this instance, what’s to prevent a burglar from suing because he slipped and fell on a bar of soap while he was ransacking your house for valuables?
This is where it’s clear to me that tort reform and reigning in of trial lawyers is badly needed. All this sort of thing does is add a layer of non productive costs to just about everything just so some ambulance chaser can get paid. Don’t get me wrong—I do believe lawyers serve a useful purpose in our society, it’s just that the law has gotten totally out of hand when a criminal can sue because someone hurts him while he’s committing a crime.
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Where is the empirical evidence that “frivilous” lawsuits are running rampant. News tends to hype many things for one reason and one reason only, to sell news.
There’s emprical evidence abound once one starts to examine the layers of cost added to things like auto insurance, health care costs and etc. Let’s face it, America is a litigious society and most of the litigation has no purpose other than being rumerative for the legal profession.