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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8924286" data-attributes="member: 18">I mean, I get what you're saying, but it's worth noting that at the executive/business level, people absolutely do sue over these sort of things, and they absolutely do win cases, though more often the cases are settled (generously) out of court.The only reason, I would suggest, such cases aren't vastly more common is that at lower economic strata, most people don't have the money to pursue such a case, nor would winning it or settling necessarily reward enough to money to make up for the costs involved. I'm particularly thinking of your latter example, because I know that, at least in the UK, people have won cases on that basis. But the only ones I'm aware of were very high-end people, where yearly salaries were in the multiple hundreds of thousands. I'd guess that was on the basis of promissory estoppel or breach of contract rather than just &quot;harm&quot; though?Also with the landlord example, people in shipping sue the hell out of each other all the time in very similar situations, and a lot of those end up favouring the party who is the equivalent of the tenant. But maybe shipping law is weird. Well, I mean, there's no maybe lol. But it's interesting how if enough money is involved this sort of situation seems to resolve very differently.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8924286, member: 18"] I mean, I get what you're saying, but it's worth noting that at the executive/business level, people absolutely do sue over these sort of things, and they absolutely do win cases, though more often the cases are settled (generously) out of court. The only reason, I would suggest, such cases aren't [I]vastly[/I] more common is that at lower economic strata, most people don't have the money to pursue such a case, nor would winning it or settling necessarily reward enough to money to make up for the costs involved. I'm particularly thinking of your latter example, because I know that, at least in the UK, people have won cases on that basis. But the only ones I'm aware of were very high-end people, where yearly salaries were in the multiple hundreds of thousands. I'd guess that was on the basis of promissory estoppel or breach of contract rather than just "harm" though? Also with the landlord example, people in shipping sue the hell out of each other all the time in very similar situations, and a lot of those end up favouring the party who is the equivalent of the tenant. But maybe shipping law is weird. Well, I mean, there's no maybe lol. But it's interesting how if enough money is involved this sort of situation seems to resolve very differently. [/QUOTE]

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