Comments on: U.K.: “The widow who refused to sue” https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/03/u-k-the-widow-who-refused-to-sue/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:00:26 +0000 hourly 1 By: Bill Poser https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/03/u-k-the-widow-who-refused-to-sue/comment-page-1/#comment-85679 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:00:26 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=16392#comment-85679 I don’t remember the details, but some years ago a yacht went aground off the East Coast in circumstances in which liability might have been imputed to the Coast Guard (I think that it was claimed that navigational buoys were misplaced or something like that). When the owners were asked if they planned to sue, they responded: “Oh, no. We’re Canadian”.

]]> By: William Nuesslein https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/03/u-k-the-widow-who-refused-to-sue/comment-page-1/#comment-85519 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:11:24 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=16392#comment-85519 The suit would have been about asbestos, not malpractice in the NHS. The error in the analysis is the presumption that asbestos contributed to the doctor’s cancer. One would doubt that the doctor helped with the construction of or that he did maintenance work in the hospital where he worked, so the doctor’s exposure would have been near absolute zero.

One would expect a spike in asbestos caused cancer from the Liberty Ship program just as one would expect a spike in deaths from gun shot wounds during World War II. The survivors of the Liberty Ship program are very old and Plaintiff lawyers have been getting payments based on minute exposures. It is crazy!

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