Lawyer Sues Delta For $5 Million Over Missed Flight

[Guest]

New York (NY) - A New York City lawyer is suing Delta Airlines for a massive $5 million after he was stranded in Paris (not exactly a bad place to be stranded in).

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[skittle]

aww, his first time flying?

 

[Guest]

Contrary to popular belief, baseball is no longer the US national sport, suing anyone with money to spare has stepped in as it's replacement.

 

[Guest]

Yeah, what is this guy thinking? Instead of suing the airlines into respecting people, we should wait patiently at the terminal. I'm sure if we wait long enough, eventually the benevolent airline management will deliver quality service at an affordable price. After all, they really care about people, right? It's not like they are making billions of dollars on the backs of underpaid workers and holding the transportation industry of the United States hostage to eek out billions more in 'bailouts' and 'incentives.' Why can't this lawyer just leave the airlines alone? Hasn't he ever started a trial and walked out in the middle, leaving the accused to defend for himself?

Sheeesh. It's like the world is backwards these days.

 

[Pei-chen]

CLR, no kidding; I don't know what skittle and Dr.Tran was thinking. Airlines have far inferior service compare to Newegg but it seems people are willing to put up with it because they’re used to it.

 

[TwoDigital]

Dr Tran's comment would seem to infer that airlines have $$$ money.

Last time I checked, what little money the airlines have seems to disappear when the board of directors decides their own annual bonus. At that point, they complain about not having any money and try to get all the underpaid workers to take yet another voluntary pay cut.

In this particular case, there was a strike going on. I'm all for worker's rights, but realize that if this lawyer wins his $5 million suit... that money won't be coming out of the Board's annual bonus. It will be coming from you as a passenger through higher rates or again from the pockets of the already-underpaid staffers. In a sense, this inconvenienced traveller is suing YOU for his fairly common inconvenience. Thanks.

 

[lobhob]

Does Delta even have 5 mill in the bank? Seriously, they prob got squat along with most other airliners.

 

[gm0n3y]

I have to assume that this guy will not get $5 million. Maybe if he gets a class action suit going with a few hundred people. My guess is that he gets money for his hotel stay, food, miscellaneous expenses, and a bit more for his time. Now if he lost his job because of it or something like that I'd understand getting more, but come on $5 million is a bit much. Although, this is the US, the home of stupid lawsuits and where judges think that $10 million dollars is a reasonable payout for pretty much anything.

 

[JonnyDough]

(not exactly a bad place to be stranded in)

(the guy probably needs help wiping his butt too)

Sad. Grow up Hump. We don't need your crap either, so whipe your own and clean up your act.

Signed,

~Anyone reading this site with a brain

 

[JonnyDough]

*wipe, not whipe. But at least I catch my errors unlike the DT article writers.

@gm0n3y

You can't blame others for being off continent and not being able to get home. It's a risk you take when you travel. What if the airline was bombed? What if a tornado hit the tarmac?

You simply can't blame others for what happens to you in life. You have to choke it up and roll with the punches. I could blame my father for a lot of bad decisions I've made. I could blame him for not buying me a new Jetta even though he could have mortgaged his home to do so, getting me to work or school on time - making me a rich a lawyer.

This guy is using a system he knows to try to make a quick buck. He shouldn't win the case, he should be water tortured as an example to other jerkoffs.

 

[gm0n3y]

@JonnyDough

I understand what you're saying, but in this case it was the unions that caused the strike, not some force of nature.

 

[JonnyDough]

@gmoney

That may be so, but there's a law here in the U.S. that stipulates where individual responsibility starts and where a corporation's liability ends. A corporation is not liable for any damages done by workers that choose to strike, just as you are not liable for the damages caused by your corporation, unless you are running that corporation.

The law is never completely clear, because life is circumstantial. If it wasn't, then we would have no need for judges to make rulings. The idea behind the court system is to provide fairness between people. If the lawyer was awarded even 1 million dollars because of a strike then it would be pretty unfair to the company, who obviously cannot control the individuality of it's employees. If it could, then they would be considered slaves, not employees.

 

[daft]

some people will look at this and laugh/feel bad for the guy/delta.
me, i look at this and laugh at the fact that i feel sorry for society for having to deal with people this stupid graduating from the 2nd grade

 

[Guest]

seems it would almost make sence to socialize transportation. For example the USpost office does a pretty good job. It's extrememly unlikely to strike. The FAA wouldn't be hindered by complaints from carriers that its maintenance regs hurts profits (better compliance).
Some dumb conservatives dont like talk about possilbe government-run services. They would for example make police and fire private and we'd end up with those services being as helpful as health insurance.

 

[noneed_1]

@plaintruth

Yep, conservatives are pretty dumb, I mean just look at how well amtrack is doing: Profitable, reliable, etc. Really a story of a government run system's success.