Comments on: Update: C$341K trauma from seeing bottled fly https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/02/update-c341k-trauma-from-seeing-bottled-fly/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sat, 01 Aug 2009 14:35:32 +0000 hourly 1 By: Trauma from seeing bottled fly: C$340,000 https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/02/update-c341k-trauma-from-seeing-bottled-fly/comment-page-1/#comment-16758 Fri, 23 May 2008 04:02:10 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4538#comment-16758 […] Thompson, “Man wins $340,000 in bottled fly lawsuit”, Windsor Star, Apr. 23). Update Feb. 17, 2007: appeals court reverses judgment and awards $30K in costs to defendant Culligan; May 23, 2008: […]

]]> By: Canadian loses bottled-fly-in-water case https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/02/update-c341k-trauma-from-seeing-bottled-fly/comment-page-1/#comment-16756 Fri, 23 May 2008 04:00:24 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4538#comment-16756 […] Martin Mustapha of Windsor, Ont. had won $340,000 over the fly for emotional distress and phobic reaction, though neither he nor any family member had come in contact with the water in question, since they spotted the insect before opening the bottle. Now the Supreme Court of Canada has refused to disturb an appeals court’s reversal of the award, and has ordered that Mustapha pay the water company’s legal costs. (”SCC quashes man’s suit over fly in bottled water”, CTV, May 22; earlier here and here). […]

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