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<blockquote data-quote="paganpink" data-source="post: 176061" data-attributes="member: 5419"><p><em><strong>"UPS does not settle class action lawsuits filed against them simply because a suit was filed - any more than employees file huge class action without cause or reason." </strong></em>Iconoclast, I think you are extremely naive to think that both of these scenarios don't happen virtually on a daily basis. The legal counsel you refer to who are defending UPS charge hundreds of dollars an hour for each attorney along with all sorts of related costs regardless of how petty or inaccurate the case is. A simple cost/benefit analysis often results in even fairly large judgements being paid because the cost of defending them, even if you win, would be even greater. Often the Attorneys suing UPS ask for huge amounts of documents very expensive to retrieve and copy, subpoena present and former managers who had even a passing or trivial knowledge of some arcane aspect of the case from all over the country (and even the world) incurring enormous travel costs and disruptions to their regular routines and even more costs to the Company to cover their regular responsibilities in their home states or countries, and they do such things repeatedly over months or even years as they deliberately drag the case out. The complainant lawyers are out only the time to write up the extensive lists of requests, and their time in court, so its kind of like playing the lottery. They don't have to win every one of them, most Companies settle the smaller claims almost routinely and even some of the larger ones when the cost of winning- even when they are in the right- becomes too high. The cost of losing as I mentioned, is nothing except their time. I believe that we should follow the British model where the loser must pay the court costs. Never forget that the Company is saddled with large legal and ancillary fees even when it wins outright. And I think that that is wrong.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="paganpink, post: 176061, member: 5419"] [I][B]"UPS does not settle class action lawsuits filed against them simply because a suit was filed - any more than employees file huge class action without cause or reason." [/B][/I]Iconoclast, I think you are extremely naive to think that both of these scenarios don't happen virtually on a daily basis. The legal counsel you refer to who are defending UPS charge hundreds of dollars an hour for each attorney along with all sorts of related costs regardless of how petty or inaccurate the case is. A simple cost/benefit analysis often results in even fairly large judgements being paid because the cost of defending them, even if you win, would be even greater. Often the Attorneys suing UPS ask for huge amounts of documents very expensive to retrieve and copy, subpoena present and former managers who had even a passing or trivial knowledge of some arcane aspect of the case from all over the country (and even the world) incurring enormous travel costs and disruptions to their regular routines and even more costs to the Company to cover their regular responsibilities in their home states or countries, and they do such things repeatedly over months or even years as they deliberately drag the case out. The complainant lawyers are out only the time to write up the extensive lists of requests, and their time in court, so its kind of like playing the lottery. They don't have to win every one of them, most Companies settle the smaller claims almost routinely and even some of the larger ones when the cost of winning- even when they are in the right- becomes too high. The cost of losing as I mentioned, is nothing except their time. I believe that we should follow the British model where the loser must pay the court costs. Never forget that the Company is saddled with large legal and ancillary fees even when it wins outright. And I think that that is wrong. [/QUOTE]
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