Posted on 10/29/2009 6:32:09 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
HELENA, Mont. -- A jury on Wednesday found that the maker of Louisville Slugger baseball bats failed to adequately warn about the dangers the product can pose, awarding a family $850,000 for the 2003 death of their son in a baseball game.
The family of Brandon Patch argued that aluminum baseball bats are dangerous because they cause the baseball to travel at a greater speed. They contended that their 18-year-old son did not have enough time to react to the ball being struck before it hit him in the head while he was pitching in an American Legion baseball game in Helena in 2003.
The Lewis and Clark County District Court jury awarded a total of $850,000 in damages against Louisville, Ky.,-based Hillerich & Bradsby for failure to place warnings on the product.
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This is just a Jury using someone else’s money to send a sympathy card.
I’m sorry for the parents but, that’s ridiculous.
MT is apparently in the running against CA to become the next Capitol of Ludicrous Lawsuits.
(And as long as baseball is played in November, they might as well don skates and play the game on ice.
Helena and Butte have been union country for better than a century. Bozeman and Missoula are People’s Republics centered on their Universities.
After they ruin their own state they move along to another and start the process all over again.
That is exactly what was happening here; what a great way to say it!
Thats plain ridiculous
Are wood bats even allowed in American Legion baseball?
Shouldn’t we just outlaw aluminum bats or mandate an additional 10 feet of distance between home and the pitcher’s mound. The helmet idea might work, should we mandate that everyone wears helmets at all times so when something bad happens to someone’s head they could sue someone. I think this is the American way.
Full body armor? Maybe the problem is the ball, perhaps soft rubber would not hurt as much. Or just outlaw baseball, it can be dangerous!
A lawyer once told me: “There’s nothing more scary than a jury of your peers.”
Why not mandate warnings on video cameras? After all, they can be used to record kiddie porn. Warnings on motor vehicles? Drivers get drunk and kill thousands of innocents per year. It’s much easier and “fair” to blame someone else for actions of those responsible.
I hope you will all enjoy watching Derek Jeter and Albert Pujols playing Wiffle Ball in a few years, because that is where we are now headed...
There has to be a mafia joke somewhere out there.
Make them all play Wiffle Ball instead!
Oh brother...I guess if someone dies in a car, they can sue the car company for not knowing the car was “hard” enough to kill you...This is really stupid and the parents are just out for money. They probably threw a party when he dropped dead and sang “were in the money...were in the money...”. These parents should not be able to sue the company any way as the kid was 18 years old and an adult.
20 posts and not one (1) Blaming lawyers or (2) Calling for tort reform. Mostly criticism of the jury that made the award. Conservatives are starting to get it!
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