Naive members of the public will support this change. But wise members realize the costs of the litigation will make its way through the economic system to air travel ticket prices…. AND to costs of goods shipped by air. Oops!
Tort costs will eventually be passed onto the travelling public. Polar is right. Boeing executives are not going to be impoverished. Things don’t work that way. If the public thinks that they are skewering Boeing executives, they be fools.
I agree that’s how it’ll work, but why is this scenario acceptable:
A plane crashes and kills people (group A)
The airline determines the fleet is faulty
Airline continues to fly the planes without fixing them
Another plane crashes and kills more people (group B)
Group B survivors can’t sue the airline for negligence of knowingly flying defective planes because at one point in time, the FAA had certified the plane.
Why should the airline be immune from lawsuits in that scenario?
Naive members of the public will support this change. But wise members realize the costs of the litigation will make its way through the economic system to air travel ticket prices…. AND to costs of goods shipped by air. Oops!
I’ll gladly pay more for a plane ticket if it means my family can sue the airlines if I died in an avoidable crash.
Tort costs will eventually be passed onto the travelling public. Polar is right. Boeing executives are not going to be impoverished. Things don’t work that way. If the public thinks that they are skewering Boeing executives, they be fools.
I agree that’s how it’ll work, but why is this scenario acceptable:
A plane crashes and kills people (group A)
The airline determines the fleet is faulty
Airline continues to fly the planes without fixing them
Another plane crashes and kills more people (group B)
Group B survivors can’t sue the airline for negligence of knowingly flying defective planes because at one point in time, the FAA had certified the plane.
Why should the airline be immune from lawsuits in that scenario?