god we really need a loser pays law

"Sky waitress sues God."

News at 11.

10? years ago I read about boaters suing the NWS after getting caught in a storm at sea. Maybe it was their families who sued after they drowned. The suit got a lot farther than I expected. I don't remember if they won. Does anybody remember this case?

Good luck proving negligence, ya nimrods.

And Alaska Airlines isn't covering the costs for their on-the-job injuries? Talk about suing the wrong people.

Weather changes should be submitted, in writing, 30 days in advance for approval.

Are said flight attendants hot? TFA says one is named Inga.
This is important.

If they want to sue Nicolas Cage for The Weather Man, I'm all for it.

FTA: "For a suit like this to be successful they are going to have to show the defendants, the FAA in particular, had evidence of turbulence and had a duty to transmit it to the crew and didn't do that," said Nance, who is a lawyer and a former pilot for Alaska Airlines. "That's a steep mountain to climb."

Good luck with that.

Why don't they sue the pilots for not telling them to be seated with seatbelts on?

They bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into.

I say, "Let 'em crash"

There is no way to prove that the WSI failed to do it's job correctly in forecasting such a small-scale event as turbulence. This suit is as frivolous as the douchenozzle who sued the dry cleaners for $50M.

joshiz: Why don't they sue the pilots for not telling them to be seated with seatbelts on?

Because the pilots don't have enough money.

ecmoRandomNumbers: "Sky waitress sues God sky wizard."

News at 11.

ftfy

ecmoRandomNumbers: "Sky waitress sues God."

News at 11.

I prefer Bobcat Goldthwait's "sky wench".

ZAZ: 10? years ago I read about boaters suing the NWS after getting caught in a storm at sea. Maybe it was their families who sued after they drowned. The suit got a lot farther than I expected. I don't remember if they won. Does anybody remember this case?

Not sure, but I guess they got a hell of a movie deal.

This is the attorney's website, I think. Do with it what you may, there is a pic of the lawyer, she seems meh.

FTFA:
Isakson slammed her head against a metal chair arm and on a metal frame beneath a passenger seat, according to the claim. A pool of blood surrounded her head and she was seen "frothing at the mouth;" she lost consciousness, the claim said.
Sounds like she might have damaged her brain pretty severely. That explains the lawsuit.

Also FTFA:
They filed a claim against the U.S. government because they believe the Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Air Traffic Organization should have warned them about the severe weather, the claim said.
I'm sorry, I was under the impression that predicting the weather was a pretty unreliable thing in the first place. I mean, yeah, you CAN predict it with some degree of accuracy, but how difficult is it to determine where turbulence might be at cruising altitude for an aircraft? I'm no meteorologist, so I honestly don't know, but it seems to me that something like that MIGHT just be hard to predict.

FTFA comments:
I think her name may be Donna Wacko instead and the lawyer is just showing how greedy these idiots are.
Speaking about greedy lawyers can anyone recommend one for me. When I graduated from high school they gave me a diploma. That should have meant I had an education. Now years later I've discovered watching tv that I am NOT smarter than a 5th grader so why in the world did they let me advance? Sounds like a better lawsuit than blaming the weather man because the wind blew.
el OH el

Blaming WSI for unforecast turbulence? That's the funniest thing I've heard all day. There is always turbulence going into Ontario. It'd be like me suing NDDOT because they didn't tell me about the bumps on the gravel road.

Apparently she didn't listen to her own safety briefing.

Sucks that she got hurt, but she should sue herself for being such a dim bulb in the first place. What a farkhole.

well if this sets a precedent against the NWS, i'm totally claiming damages for planned trips to the beach that got rained or fogged out, and my dry cleaning bill for when i got caught in that spring shower, and that time i got sunburned when the local weatherman clearly promised me partly cloudy and breezy.

/go on with ya, blazing your litigious trails in the sky!
//medical costs can be a biatch, but two wrongs dont pay the bills.

jake3988: namatad 2009-12-19 03:19:08 PM god we really need a loser pays law
====================================

Generally the loser is forced to pay, but it's a judgement call by the judge.

Unfortunately all too often these things WIN... that's what's sad.

No, generally both sides pay their own costs, unless the attorney was able to get attorneys' fees and court costs included in the judgment. Even then, it's not a given. Most of the time in US courts, the loser does NOT pay, which is why we see dingdong lawsuits like this.

Even though I'm halfway through law school, I'm a big fan of tort reform; but given the power and $$$ that tort lawyers have, I'm sure it will never happen.