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The NHS tried their hardest to be as negligent as possible with my wife. I'm sorry that your wife had poor care - nobody should have to go through that.

Why are you so alarmed to see a company which was, by all appearances, negligent and in breach of contract getting sued for negligence and breach of contract? What kind of surprise is this?

I would say a bit of both - Android is different ecosystem, but to ignore Android's market impact in smart-phones is negligent.

It seems less perverse when you think of tort liability as assignment of the costs of risk, rather than punishment for negligent behavior. When someone drives a car, this creates risk.

The European governments were completely negligent in that regard. Note also that the financial sector is not mentioned at all in this analysis.

A wilfully negligent pilot would be unlikely to get through training. And even if he was sloppy, it's hard to imagine somebody being so negligent that he didn't bother to check his airspeed when landing a 777 under the watchful eye of his instructor.

This kind of behaviour must be considered beyond negligent, practically criminal. I would strongly support throwing anyone involved in this into jail for a long time as a deterrent against future criminals.

Through the whole process McDonalds was acting like a criminally negligent bully unconcerned with injuring customers. Punitive damages did correct this.

Not looking at them doesn't mean the rules don't apply, it's just grossly—potentially criminally—negligent. In fact, that's the case for anyone starting almost any business. You need to examine the legal and regulatory environment in which you'll be operating as the very first step of your due diligence. Anything else is negligent.

Furthermore this policy they speak of has altered the employment agreement with out consent from the employed, and failure to disclose the policy at the time the offer was made constitutes negligent misrepresentation of the contract. I'm sure if you had known that you would have only received payment while still an employee, the offer would not have induced you to perform said services for the company.

I think the physical dangers of our work is quite similar in that programmers and phd candidates or scientists will tend to get absorbed in front of a screen, sit for too long at a stretch, forget about or get negligent about food and drink, etc etc. I recommend this article.