Lady Sues Victoria's Secret

[AB Asks]

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?

[ludwig]

I hate all this compensation stuff, but in this case she's probably got a point. One of the main functions of a bikini is so you can lie in the sun, therefore you should be able to do that without part of the item becoming dangerous.

[webbo3]

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

[Oneeyedvic]

"She's an American, she'd sue if the sun was to hot ,rain was to wet and the sky was'nt blue enough. "

really, so permanent disfigurement is okay then?

Agree totally with Ludwig on this one.

[Booldawg]

I agree with Ludwig too. She wasnt using the bikini in a way that it wasn't designed to be used, and using it in an enviroment that is typical to the product. $2 million is steep, but there you go.

[Beanmistriss]

But would you not look at the bikini and go "thats nice, but oh that metal ring there on the front, I bet that would get hot in the sun".

What happened to everyone using their noggins and having a bit of common sense and taking responsibility when they have been a bit stupid

[LeMarchand]

Did she not think "OW! That metal ring's got really hot!" before it got so hot that it burnt her?

[jump79]

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.

[Clanad]

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...

[kwicky]

I hope she wasn't wearing metal framed sunglasses at the time.

[maggie01]

Surely it is common sense. Metal gets hot. It is the same if you have a metal decoration on sandals or flip flops, they will get hot and you would burn your feet.

[black bunny]

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!

[rojash]

"I bet she fell asleep which is maybe why she didn't register the ring was getting so hot" - come on! so hot it disfigured here and she didn't wake up be fore that? I reckon she just lay there, gritting her teeth and thinking "2 miilion, 2 million, 2 million..."

[bednobs]

serves her right for sunbathing in her bra, i say. And ok she has a scar on her chest, but 2 million dollars? How is a small scar worth that? You dnt even get that on most insurance policies if an arm falls off, or a leg, or blinded!

[Miss Inquiry]

I say fair play to her, I hope she gets some compensation. I've read numerous reports of people trying to sue for the kiddies shoes with wheeles built into them, so why not sue for something that is actually a design flaw.

[Sasha13]

$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.

[Sasha13]

Sorry, of course second figure should be $2m not �2m!!!

[netibiza]

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.

[brachiopod]

Ooooh, nettie stoppit !!

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pod x

[netibiza]

Eh pod - what a tease I am!!!!

[brachiopod]

It's all this talk of bikinis and hot climates!!

(Calm down pod - remember, snow forecast for tomorrow......)