Posted on 07/12/2007 8:20:01 PM PDT by ECM
MONTREAL (AP) - Nine people filed a $1.3 million lawsuit Thursday against the globe- trotting tuberculosis patient for possibly exposing them to the disease on a commercial flight from Prague to Montreal.
Montreal lawyer Anlac Nguyen filed the motion in Quebec Superior Court on behalf of seven Canadians and two natives of the Czech Republic. Eight were passengers on the flight with Andrew Speaker and the ninth is a brother and roommate of one of the passengers.
Speaker, a 31-year-old Atlanta personal injuries attorney, was in Europe when he learned tests showed he had an extremely drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis known as XDR-TB.
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Haha , no doubt .
And he thought that the TB infection sucked!
A car hits you crossing the street = big lawsuit.
The same car barely misses you, you get NOTHING, despite the momentary fear of God you experienced.
That’s just how it is. This lawsuit will go nowhere.
Are you, perhaps, familiar with reckless endangerment?
Don't you just love it when they turn on one of their own?
That analogy borders on the silly:
a passing car can't infect you with "hittedness," but a tubercular passenger can infect you with tuberculosis, and it's not impossible that some of those exposed to this self-center POS could yet develop the disease.
Certainly they have had to live with that fear - needlessly.
Ironic
Attorney, meet thy own petard.
If you set a trap for others,you will get caught in it yourself. If you roll a boulder down on others, it will crush you instead. — Proverbs 26:27
Ain’t that the truth...
I agree w/you...it was all about ‘him’...’his’ honeymoon trip to Greece and Italy...never mind about the ‘little people’ who might get infected. If you have read the whole back story, I think there is much, much more to this...his father-in-law is a TB researcher...hmmmm.
Dude, where ever you are, step into the light of reality.
What you say may seem "right", but the fact is....
Pain....suffering....mental anguish....etc.
Blood in the water, sharks, etc.
I flew on that very same jet 1 week later, etc.
This has lawsuit written ALL over it.
Are you kidding me, in this day and age? They will sue this ignorant toad, the airline, the air traffic controllers, the ticket clerk AND the baggage handlers.
And I think I'll sue YOU just for saying this has no merit!
:)
Criminal charges, sure.... But unless a near-miss is horrendously traumatic, the chances of suing successfully are nil.
Seriously, this might be one of the best things ever. Trial lawyers are scum.
If it’s bad enough, you could certainly call witnesses to testify, and show that you’ve been in therapy as a result... especially if you are (or were) a minor at the time.
I doubt any of these people have been in therapy over a TB scare.
Until one of the plaintiffs contract TB, there are no damages. No damages means its unactionable.
Until one of the plaintiffs contract TB, there are no damages. No damages means it’s unactionable.
Speaker's TB Not As Serious As Once Thought
TB patient tests negative, but he is 'culture-positive'
Doctors at National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver, where Speaker is being treated, said two tests of sputum, mucus coughed up from deep in his lungs, were negative for TB bacteria. If a third test is negative, it would mean he is "relatively non-contagious," spokesman William Alstetter says
This guy’s inability to wait a few weeks for his honeymoon with his attractively-fake-breasted bride is going to cost him plenty.
I thought that he didn’t have as bad a strain of TB that they originally thought.
?????
I guess he wanted to love his new wife to death.
Those are good points. (Yup, you’d be a good lawyer!)
Maybe this case is so darn unusual, they actually have a fair chance for the reasons you said. Normally it takes actual injury, even just slight amount.
Sweet indeed.
All's I'm saying is, given the current state of our judical system, you know the blood suckers will be all over this.
Like white on rice.
And you both know that a liberal judge will hear the trial, and that an Oprah educated jurist panel will decide for the "victim".......
We all know what should happen.
But that is not what is going to happen.
Watch.
Owe ya both a soda if it gets dropped, ok?
There are way too many “OJ juries”, that’s true....
Tell us all about your legal training, won’t you? Which law school? Which bar admissions?
Notwithstanding, I am absolutely correct.
Uh, no.
Stop embarrassing yourself.
Who just happens to work with this particular rare and very dangerous and difficult to treat strain of TB. hmmmm indeed.
Stop hitting yourself.
I sure hope nobody made Katie Colonic read this story on TV.
Never started.
I saw that and thought of her too. She will now and forever be linked to the word “sputum”. LOL!!! It’s a suitable word for her too.
I hope the other 9 are all trial lawyers too.
He DESERVES to have them sue his a$$ off!
Sweet irony indeed!
Only a lawyer would decide to risk the health of a lot of folks by flying against advice just because he’s getting married overseas.
What also got me was that he didn’t, at the minimum, wear a freaking face mask!
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