*However, as the company had gone into liquidation and was unable to pay, it was ordered to pay a nominal fine of £1. *
this post was submitted on 18 May 2026
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That encourages companies to go into liquidation if they anticipate incurring a substantial legal liability relative to their size.
Yeah, we should start holding the people in senior management actually responsible
Suing a company makes no sense: it’s like suing the car after an accident instead of the driver
That is the entire idea of the corporation, the people that own it are blameless, only the corporation is liable, and they can just dip out like this. They should have to put up a bond or something if we're going to keep it like this. But we are going to keep it like this and then make it worse so that's where we are.
Thats on financial obligations, not criminal negligence of safety
They're very rarely charged corporations criminally anymore though, most all of them are allowed to come to a settlement without admitting fault, which was supposed to be meant for kids tonight get their lives ruined with the criminal record.
Yeah, American justice system is a joke of, by and for its people
Please don't manifest "suing a car" into my 2027 bingo card
This is like that meme about repeatedly replacing the family pet
Sounds like youre feeding orphans to the orphan crushing machine
Doesn't beat South Africa selling an oil refinery for R1 (0.06 dollers)
“We take these failures seriously and will hold those to account who fail to keep their workers and other people safe.”
... I know a great article that proves otherwise.
With some luck under that jurisdiction’s law that serves as a recognition of guilt / fault and opens way for further litigation against former owners?
Mario bros
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