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So first thing here is - you accept the principle that the winner should pay their own costs. Since as you say, if the company has five lawyers, they have to pa

So first thing here is - you accept the principle that the winner should pay their own costs. Since as you say, if the company has five lawyers, they have to pay for four of them. So there's no real difference. If they hire ten lawyers, and your lawyer says "I need help to do it" you're screwed - either you pay the extra lawyer out of your own pocket, or you ask your lawyer to do the best job they can do. The difference is just how much shit flows in when you open the gate - not how much shit is there, or which direction it flows. In Germany you have to buy insurance against getting sued. I mean, you could call that an indication of a beautifully working system, but I call it an utter failure.

atq2119 7y ago
> In Germany you have to buy insurance against getting sued. That is incorrect, and what's more is that I have no idea where you're getting this from (it's possible that certain professions are required to buy extra insurance, but the only universally mandatory insurance in Germany is the health and social insurance).
zaarn 7y ago
You don't have to buy insurance against getting sued at all. There is no law that forces you to buy one and few people have it.
- Faark 7y ago
  There is no general law, but there seem to be 22.3m "Rechtsschutzversicherung" signed. I'm not comfortable calling this "few people".
  - zaarn 7y ago
    Is there a source for that number and how it correlates to the total number of actual customers?
    - Faark 7y ago
      I forgot the link? That's somewhat embarrassing. I just went with the first search result, a statista link [0] (and the free trial certainly doesn't offer much more info). Most other links right now seem to be related to complaints about that type of insurance o_O > correlates to the total number of actual customers Hard to say. Companies can have them, but I doubt there are 22m. Families can have them and cover multiple people at once. Germany's population is only 82m, so 22m just sounds like a lot to me. [0] (ger) https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/6599/umfrage/vertragsbestand-der-rechtsschutzversicherung-seit-1990/ https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/6599/umfrage/...

atq2119 7y ago

> In Germany you have to buy insurance against getting sued. That is incorrect, and what's more is that I have no idea where you're getting this from (it's possible that certain professions are required to buy extra insurance, but the only universally mandatory insurance in Germany is the health and social insurance).

zaarn 7y ago

You don't have to buy insurance against getting sued at all. There is no law that forces you to buy one and few people have it.

Faark 7y ago
There is no general law, but there seem to be 22.3m "Rechtsschutzversicherung" signed. I'm not comfortable calling this "few people".
- zaarn 7y ago
  Is there a source for that number and how it correlates to the total number of actual customers?
  - Faark 7y ago
    I forgot the link? That's somewhat embarrassing. I just went with the first search result, a statista link [0] (and the free trial certainly doesn't offer much more info). Most other links right now seem to be related to complaints about that type of insurance o_O > correlates to the total number of actual customers Hard to say. Companies can have them, but I doubt there are 22m. Families can have them and cover multiple people at once. Germany's population is only 82m, so 22m just sounds like a lot to me. [0] (ger) https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/6599/umfrage/vertragsbestand-der-rechtsschutzversicherung-seit-1990/ https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/6599/umfrage/...