Comments on: Humpty Dumpty… https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/09/humpty-dumpty/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Thu, 27 Sep 2012 02:22:12 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jason Barney https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/09/humpty-dumpty/comment-page-1/#comment-174193 Thu, 27 Sep 2012 02:22:12 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=33021#comment-174193 Yeah, but for falling off a wall?

You’re too serious, Max. That, or sue the cartoonist for casting Humpty in a false light.

]]> By: Max Kennerly https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/09/humpty-dumpty/comment-page-1/#comment-174191 Thu, 27 Sep 2012 01:53:00 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=33021#comment-174191 Notice how the comic says Humpty Dumpty couldn’t be put back together again, but is drawn as if he is in fact put back together again.

Either we accept he wasn’t put back together, in which case Dumpty isn’t “rich,” he’s just be compensated — likely inadequately — for his paralysis, permanent deformity, and brain damage, or we accept that he was put back together, in which case he has modest damages, and so recovers mostly just lost wages.

But, hey, who wouldn’t trade a permanent injury and an inability to work and perform basic household tasks with being “rich?”

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