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Trial Lawyers What’s worse than a triple bogey?
Take a Swing
at Tiger Woods We’ve got another ridiculous lawsuit.
By US Chamber of Commerce A Florida man claims that Tiger Woods and
his caddy “unnecessarily” and “harmfully”
17 AMCHAM SOUTH CHINA shoved him out of the way while he was
taking a selfie of the golf star at the thirteenth
hole of a golf tournament.
The man’s lawyers say the shove resulted in
“pain and suffering,” “disability,” “disfigurement,”
“mental anguish,” and a half dozen other
conditions. They want lots of money to fix his list
of ailments.
But if you look at the footage of the selfie incident,
the man is standing right in Wood’s back swing.
He might have been hit and injured by the club if
the caddy hadn’t calmly moved him away!
Sounds like this Florida Man and his legal team
will have to take a mulligan on this one.
This frivolous lawsuit is clearly out of bounds.
This clearly argues the case for Legal Reform
in the US. An effective legal system is critical
to advancing free enterprise. Unfortunately,
many lawsuits in US lack merit or are downright
abusive. Making matters worse, the lawyers
who bring these types of suits tend to be the
real beneficiaries—not their clients. To be sure,
economic data show that the U.S. tort system in
2016 alone cost $3,329 per U.S. household, and
only 57 cents on the dollar went to compensate
the actual victim.
Trial Lawyers What’s worse than a triple bogey?
Take a Swing
at Tiger Woods We’ve got another ridiculous lawsuit.
By US Chamber of Commerce A Florida man claims that Tiger Woods and
his caddy “unnecessarily” and “harmfully”
17 AMCHAM SOUTH CHINA shoved him out of the way while he was
taking a selfie of the golf star at the thirteenth
hole of a golf tournament.
The man’s lawyers say the shove resulted in
“pain and suffering,” “disability,” “disfigurement,”
“mental anguish,” and a half dozen other
conditions. They want lots of money to fix his list
of ailments.
But if you look at the footage of the selfie incident,
the man is standing right in Wood’s back swing.
He might have been hit and injured by the club if
the caddy hadn’t calmly moved him away!
Sounds like this Florida Man and his legal team
will have to take a mulligan on this one.
This frivolous lawsuit is clearly out of bounds.
This clearly argues the case for Legal Reform
in the US. An effective legal system is critical
to advancing free enterprise. Unfortunately,
many lawsuits in US lack merit or are downright
abusive. Making matters worse, the lawyers
who bring these types of suits tend to be the
real beneficiaries—not their clients. To be sure,
economic data show that the U.S. tort system in
2016 alone cost $3,329 per U.S. household, and
only 57 cents on the dollar went to compensate
the actual victim.
