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Lady Sues Victoria's Secret
A lady in New York is suing Victoria's Secret after a bikini she wore burnt her. A metal ring at the front of a bra allegedly became 'super-heated' when the lady lay in the sun. The ring left a disfiguring scar like a 'bulls-eye' on her chest and she is now taking the company to court for $2 million dollars. Is she right to do this? Has the litigation-happy society we live in finally gone too far?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.She's an American, she'd sue if the sun was to hot ,rain was to wet and the sky was'nt blue enough.
There was an article in the daily mail last week about a judge who threw out a woman claim for 150k( i think) after she tripped over a small hole on a village green whilst taking a shortcut to the local pub,apparently it was left from the may pole after a village fete ,but had been filled in,but some kids had played on the green and made the hole appear again.
Lets hope he set a precident.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles /news/news.html?in_article_id=439538&in_page_i d=1766&ito=1490
There was an article in the daily mail last week about a judge who threw out a woman claim for 150k( i think) after she tripped over a small hole on a village green whilst taking a shortcut to the local pub,apparently it was left from the may pole after a village fete ,but had been filled in,but some kids had played on the green and made the hole appear again.
Lets hope he set a precident.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles /news/news.html?in_article_id=439538&in_page_i d=1766&ito=1490
Well, I agree she was quite dumb to buy a bikini like that, but the product is kind of defective too, was it only to be worn for show or is it actually meant to be used for the beach?
V.S. should at least have labelled it then, 'not to be worn in sun, only indoors', I'm sure they will start now once this case is over.
V.S. should at least have labelled it then, 'not to be worn in sun, only indoors', I'm sure they will start now once this case is over.
The problem, at least as I see it as a U.S. citizen, is that if the manufacturer or the marketer were actually forced to pay the settlement (assuming there will be one) perhaps someone would learn a lesson. However, the manufacturer of the garment as well as Victoria's will simply be advised by their product liability insurer to settle since that will be cheaper in the long run than litigating... and most attornies know that going in. The attorney will take 60% of the settlement since he took the case on contigency and the client had no investment in the outcome at all. The case law will be established which will affect all other such cases to follow. All of our insurance premiums will increase yet again, thereby shifting the burden once more from the responsible parties to the general public...
if this woman was in the sun long enough for the metal ring to become so hot to burn her, I'd say that this was the least of her worries....she is putting herself at risk of developing skin cancer,not to mention getting skin like leather, wrinkles,age spots etc.
I bet she fell asleep which is maybe why she didn't register the ring was getting so hot - how dangerous is that!
I bet she fell asleep which is maybe why she didn't register the ring was getting so hot - how dangerous is that!
$2 million??????????????????????????? For a burn which won't affect her quality of life or earnings potential??????????????????? �2m?????????????? Anyone who says this woman deserves compensation of anywhere near that size needs their heads examining!!!! I've never heard anything so ridiculous since the last compensation 'where there's blame there's a claim' case to come out of the USA.
Didn't she have the sense to realise this was going to happen? When I bought seat belts for my child it had two huge metal buckle things on the chest, and as I live in a very sunny climate I realised they would become hot, so I covered them, end of problem. I also had a bikini (those were the days!) with metal loops and I changed them for plastic for the very same reason.
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