I suspect even he knows that it is frivolous. To take money from the manufacturer of a portable toilet just because your own cousins are morons who used their product to injure you is reprehensible. Had the seat fallen out from under him, paralyzing him, I would side with him, since that would likely be the manufacturer's fault. In this case, I fault the lawyers and their greedy client.
In the defense of the victim, he is paralyzed for life, and he will need expensive care for however long that is.
It’s not really his fault that the courts will eventually stick the manufacturer with the bill when his idiot relations are found not to have two nickles to rub together.
It’s been how these cases have been decided for a long, long time. At least in this state.
They get stuck or the taxpayer gets stuck. Life is unfair.