This is a loser of a negligent entrustment claim, but it’s not what’s wrong with America. What’s wrong with America is that this lawsuit, which cost the defendant nothing but minor inconvenience, got more attention than the death of this 42-year-old husband and father whose only crime was working for a living at an apparently understaffed/undertrained place of employment. This lawsuit will be used, as usual, to spread the myth of frivolous lawsuits filling our courthouses while the reality is that it’s the insurance companies filling our courthouses with frivolous defenses and lowball offers on legitimate claims. Not defending the lawsuit. It’s weak. It will be lucky to survive a No-Evidence MSJ and even luckier to ever result in a judgment for the plaintiff. All the costs associated with it will be paid by either the plaintiff that filed it, who buried a loved one as a result of someone else’s negligence, or the defendant’s insurer, who profits massively off its premiums and investments and won’t feel one bit of pinch from this case, win or lose. That’s what courthouses are for, letting juries pick the winners and losers. If you were more bothered by the lawsuit than the loss of life, count yourself amongst the insurance industry’s sheep. You’ve been distracted and played. You won’t know it until you’re in front of a lawyer being advised as to why your own seemingly valid claim for your own losses to yourself or family have no value and will not be properly compensated due to the same tort reform you supported. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk