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I'm from Finland. First, if someone came to jump on my trampoline and got hurt, the last thing they would do is to sue me. Secondly, if I did not intentionally

by fsloth 10y ago

I'm from Finland. First, if someone came to jump on my trampoline and got hurt, the last thing they would do is to sue me. Secondly, if I did not intentionally and actively try to harm them it's quite hard to imagine a situation where I would have to pay damages - and in the unlikely case I had to the payment would be probably be a couple of thousands of euros (based on my cursory and anecdotal experience). The only way to clock in millions of euros as penalty here would be some mini-enron like financial crime. It would also be pretty insane to predatorily sue me for millions of euros. There is nowhere that money could come from. Generally public healthcare would pick up the tab on most medical costs (sans some mostly insignificant fees).

kasey_junk 10y ago
> Generally public healthcare would pick up the tab on most medical costs (sans some mostly insignificant fees). This gets to the heart of the problem. In the US this is not an option, so even people who generally are not litigious can need to sue in order to make sure medical bills are payed appropriately. Even with that, personal injury settlements that clock into the millions of euros would be extreme outliers in the USA. It would involve severe death and dismemberment as well as punitive action by the civil court process.