This thread and my opinion are not intended to mean all attorneys and certainly not meant to offend the forum attorneys DGUtely and Peter
NYC is drowning in ridiculous, pricey lawsuits
You can read the rest at the link, NYC is a sewer of political corruption it always has been. I dont blame the lawyers who bring these friviolous lawsuits and milk hundreds of millions from taxpayers. I blame the Politicians.
DISCLAIMER: The below statement is not intended to be racial or racist, it is a fact as I know it.
The city used to just take any claims against police and pay them, claims of excessive force or racism, all a city lawyer had to do was threaten a lawsuit and the city gave them a few hundred thousand or a million or two it became quite lucrative to do that for lawyers and citizens. The city set the tone for all this, I dont want to make accusations that I cant prove but only a fool would not believe that some city politicians dont have several city attorneys giving them big gifts.
NYC isnt the only city in the country being torted to death its a great living for lawyers with little risk
New York City is being tort-ured.
The Big Apple is drowning in so many frivolous lawsuits — over everything from food packaging and advertising to the design of retail Web sites — that the city’s court system has become one of the nation’s worst places for civil justice, a damning report out Tuesday reveals.
The American Tort Reform Foundation will give New York City the dubious distinction of placing No. 3 on its annual list of “Judicial Hellholes” where plaintiffs lawyers run amok with the help of accommodating judges and do-nothing lawmakers.
The report, a copy of which was provided to The Post in advance, turns up the heat on the city’s court system, which has previously come under fire from the ATRF for the “brazenly plaintiff-favoring ways” of a special court for asbestos-related, personal injury suits in Manhattan Supreme Court.
ATRF President Tiger Joyce said many cases in the report involved “a number of areas of litigation where really, when you boil it down, there really isn’t any particular kind of injury.
“The theory of the case is that somehow people have been harmed, when it hasn’t been demonstrated,” he said. “This new trend is something that we are obviously quite concerned about.”
In fact, the only places deemed worse than New York City for irresponsible tort filings are entire states: California at No. 1 and Florida at No. 2.
The report states that the cost and compensation paid in the US tort system totaled $429 billion in 2016, accounting for 2.3 percent of the US gross domestic product.
The ATRF report cites a 2017 study that found 22 percent of all “frivolous food lawsuits” nationwide were filed in the Big Apple, primarily over claims that food packages aren’t filled to capacity, or that products don’t live up to advertising that they’re “natural.”
In one case, a Manhattan federal judge tossed a class-action suit alleging that consumers were tricked into buying Junior Mints because the candy was “packaged in a box with more than one quarter of the box containing air.”
Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald said allowing the suit to proceed would “enshrine into the law an embarrassing level of mathematical illiteracy.”
https://nypost.com/2018/12/04/nyc-is...icey-lawsuits/