Depends. The article says the restaurant was repeatedly warned. If the restaurant was incapable of catering to the allergy, they should have not served food.
Of course that is taking the plaintiff’s word for it. If the “repeated warning” was actually one statement of “I’m not supposed to eat nuts or dairy” then I’m not sure how that plays out. If I repeatedly asked, “I could die if I eat nuts or dairy, can you safely serve me food?” and they said yes, I would assume I won’t die that day.
I don’t think it’s “expecting the world to be careful” if you ask if they can not kill you and they say yes, we won’t kill you. They have the ability to say no, we can’t guarantee that.
Yeah, that’s insane. If they killed a person due to their own negligence and get sued for $50K… pay it and thank their lucky stars there wasn’t another 0 or two on the number.
They’ll spend $50,000 defending the suit and get bad press on top of it.
Eh, if the restaurant was told about the allergies they can say “thanks for letting us know; we’ve got you covered”, or they can say “we use a lot of dairy and nuts in our kitchen and can’t promise there won’t be cross contamination”.
Several relatives have nut allergies and there are just a lot of places they simply can’t eat. Or work. It’s a thing.
But if the allergic person emphasizes their allergy and the restaurant serves them and the food the restaurant serves is contaminated with the ingredients they said they were allergic to… yes, the restaurant has culpability. If they can’t accommodate the allergy then they shouldn’t say they can or ignore the information.
I have a nut allergy, but fortunately it’s not a deadly one, although allergies can worsen with exposure so I don’t chance it.
I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve asked about nut allergies in a restaurant, been assured they had a nut-free prep space and took allergies very seriously, and my salad has still come out with tree nuts on it.
Thankfully now it’s too expensive to go out to dinner anyway, so most of my meals are made at home these days.
Lehto’s Law covered this today. The $50k is widely being misreported. They are asking for damages in excess of $50k. $50k is simply a cutoff that decides which court hears the case. It in no way represents how much money you’re actually trying to get (other than it is at least $50k).
A popular Airbnb host has been forced to implement a bizarre new rule when renting her house to guests: no crypto-mining. The change came after guests amassed a $1,500 electric bill during their stay. The guests were seen hauling out at least ten computers and also set up an improvised electric vehicle charging station.
The story caught my eye as it was as a more extreme example of what one of my great-uncles overcame. He was an auto mechanic and had both his legs amputated due to gangrene: he had two short wooden stumps for legs. He loved driving so rewired his car so that he didn’t need his legs: he converted everything to hand controls. I always admired his ability to cope. He never complained about his situation and just got on with life.
These 2 guys were acquitted of fraud with regard to their sale of their company to HP for $11B. And then die within days of each other in questionable accidents.
Chamberlain was the co-defendant of Lynch in a U.S. trial over his tech company Autonomy. He was accused of fraud and conspiracy over allegedly inflating the company’s earnings with Lynch ahead of an $11 billion deal with Hewlett-Packard, per The Times, TechCrunch and the Associated Press.
The former business partners were both acquitted of all 15 charges in June by a San Francisco jury.
Guessing they had more enemies than just the HP cartel, for other shitty things they might have done at a more personal level that drive people to kill.
No ideas what, but, but, do your own research!! And if you can’t find anything, that’s just proof they’re hiding it!! Oh, you KNOW who “they” are!!!
