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Re: The Federal Compensation Fund For Sept. 11 Victims From: Steve & Eryl Raymond (eryl@intekom.co.za) Wed Mar 13 05:10:44 2002 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: The Federal Compensation Fund For Sept. 11 Victims" Previous message: OBGYN.net Community News: "OBGYN.net March Update" Maybe in reply to: Dean Huffman: "The Federal Compensation Fund For Sept. 11 Victims" Next in thread: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: The Federal Compensation Fund For Sept. 11 Victims" I'm only half English, but I feel you are wrong in pointing the guns at the English. In British law at least until recently, decisions on damages were always based on "what a reasonable person" could or would do or expect. If there was no measurable monetary loss there was no "damage" and, to use your term, "it was insulting to try to put a dollar amount on what it was worth". The concept of "pain and suffering" as a compensatable damage only appeared in the last 30 years after it became the driving factor in all American lawsuits. The guns are thus quickly and firmly swivelled in the westerly direction again! stray DoctorJoe@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 3/12/02 14:25:26, DoctorJoe@aol.com writes: > > << << Anna, I'm with you. Seems that as a society, our tonic for everything > is > financial compensation. Somewhere along the line, we've gotten our > priorities all asunder. >> > > Actually, under our law in the U.S. (which we received from the > Brits...hehe), if someone "damages" you, you have the right to seek > recompensation. Pure and simple. The way we get carried away is - what's > "damage" and how much is it "worth"? >> > > And actually, the idea of financial compensation is a standard function of > COMMON law (like we inherited from the Anglishe!!!). You breach a contract - > how much money does it take to fix you up? You "damage" someone (e.g. run > into their car), how much money to fix it? > > It's interesting that WRONGFUL DEATH actions are relatively new in the law. > It used to be that life was considered precious and it was insulting to try > to put a dollar amount on what it was worth. Now, however, you get all kinds > of reasonably foreseeable damages (lost earnings, loss of consortium, mental > distress, etc, etc, etc), not to mention SURVIVAL ACTION - which means the > survivors of the dead person can sue for the DEAD PERSON'S emotional > distress, pain, etc, before he died. So you get TWO emotional distresses out > of it - yours and the deceased (if you're a relative). > > Anyway, the origin of all of this MOSTLY was England - so we should point our > legal guns East???? ROFLOL > > Joe P. -- Dr.S.H. Raymond Head of Department of O & G Empangeni Hospital South Africa 3880 Phone: (+27) 35-7721111 Fax: (+27) 35-7922596 Next message: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: The Federal Compensation Fund For Sept. 11 Victims" Previous message: OBGYN.net Community News: "OBGYN.net March Update" Maybe in reply to: Dean Huffman: "The Federal Compensation Fund For Sept. 11 Victims" Next in thread: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: The Federal Compensation Fund For Sept. 11 Victims"

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