[E-Type] E-type gets creamed - american claim culture

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Gentleman,

I cafefully read your advice to the unfortunatly mr LLoyd.
I see a large culture difference between holland and america: the way you
think about claiming and sueing: some of you go much further, like john
walker wrote:

Or… maybe you could sue Starbucks or whomever sold her the coffee.
Picture the headlines “Defective coffee container, leads to auto mishap”.
:wink:
this totally ignores the individuals responsibility for their own actions.
Even with bad products / services people should be responsible for the
actions the perform with it. doing this you have a chance avoiding two
negative results of your claim culture:

  • companies, also the good ones, have to pay a high insurance fee for
    business liability. this incrases all produxct prices.
  • you will evelop more “not so bright” daughters because they did not have
    to think.

What do you think om this item ?

Wilko Pels
Pels Produktie Advies Tel 020-6003833
Echtenstein 815 Fax 020-6001375
1103 AA Amsterdam Mobiel 06-54378453
E-mail office@ppa.nl

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2

It was a joke Wilko.
Regards
tom-----Original Message-----
From: Wilko Pels pels@xs4all.nl
To: e-type@jag-lovers.org e-type@jag-lovers.org
Date: Saturday, October 02, 1999 12:47 AM
Subject: [E-Type] E-type gets creamed - american claim culture

Gentleman,

I cafefully read your advice to the unfortunatly mr LLoyd.
I see a large culture difference between holland and america: the way you
think about claiming and sueing: some of you go much further, like john
walker wrote:

Or… maybe you could sue Starbucks or whomever sold her the coffee.
Picture the headlines “Defective coffee container, leads to auto mishap”.
:wink:
this totally ignores the individuals responsibility for their own actions.
Even with bad products / services people should be responsible for the
actions the perform with it. doing this you have a chance avoiding two
negative results of your claim culture:

  • companies, also the good ones, have to pay a high insurance fee for
    business liability. this incrases all produxct prices.
  • you will evelop more “not so bright” daughters because they did not have
    to think.

What do you think om this item ?

Wilko Pels
Pels Produktie Advies Tel 020-6003833
Echtenstein 815 Fax 020-6001375
1103 AA Amsterdam Mobiel 06-54378453
E-mail office@ppa.nl

Pels Produktie Advies is gespecialiseerd in procesoptimalisatie voor de
industrie. PPA onderscheid zich door een ge�ntegreerde benadering van
organisatorische, logistieke en technische processen. Daarnaast verzorgt
PPA ook subsidieaanvragen en eventuele fi
nanciering voor projecten.

3

Yes, the unfortunate accident happened to Eric. But…
this astually happened un the USA. A lady spilled hot coffee on her lap, sued
McDonalds resturant… AND WON!
Sometimes I just don’t understand…
LLoyd

Wilko Pels wrote:> Gentleman,

I cafefully read your advice to the unfortunatly mr LLoyd.
I see a large culture difference between holland and america: the way you
think about claiming and sueing: some of you go much further, like john
walker wrote:

Or… maybe you could sue Starbucks or whomever sold her the coffee.
Picture the headlines “Defective coffee container, leads to auto mishap”.
:wink: