in the Case of a two-year-old who, in 2017, had an Ikea-office of Ore over it did not the courtroom. Furniture giant, has instead agreed to a settlement with his family worth $ 46 million, equivalent to more than 430 million, reports CBS News.
major companies in the US are opting for some form of reconciliation is not uncommon, according to the Article. The potential for an even higher compensation in the event of a conviction are, and the length of the case could mean a lot of negative attention.
if you do not want to participate in a process that solkar-down of the brand, ” he says.
Schultz is joined by Rolf Dotevall is professor of commercial law at the Gothenburg university, sweden.
” It probably has to do with the ”good will”. There is a terrible amount of it comes down to, however, is seen in this context, it was considered, well, that one had more to lose, so prefer to fly than a bad fight, ” says the Dotevall.
Ikea has recalled office of the united states in June 2016, and agreed to pay $ 50 million in damages to three families, whose children have died. However, to get this amount of money in Sweden would have been unheard of, ” says Rolf Dotevall.
but it was certainly jämkat amount.
similar to the death of the was, therefore, not be able to lead to millions of dollars in damages. According to Mårten Schultz, compensation for funeral expenses, and sek 30,000 per year for an acute psychological trauma as a more likely scenario.
” You do not get money for the grief and loss. It is not, it will be because you can not put a number on, ” says the Article.
skadeståndsbeloppen is so much higher in the US compared to in Sweden, a number of factors. The social security system, which is not as comprehensive as in Europe, is an element of actions for damages, is the more common, and that is for their own legal costs.
it can offer to drive the actions for damages and to receive a share of the damages if they win. The driver of the whole thing, ” says Rolf Dotevall.
Martin Schultz, in turn, points to a kind of tort, which, in principle, is that the explanation of the so-called ”punitive damages”. There is no purpose in the first place is to compensate the victims, but that compensation is being used as a punishment.
” Then it will be the the vast amount. The closest equivalent we have in the united states are the various types of penalties. The difference is that the penalty accrues to the state as the ”punitive damages” goes to the victims, ” he said.
According to the Article, may an american skaderätt often have to endure both criticism and mockery for a huge amount, but he says that they, too, has a role to play.
” They are, in general, proportionate to the rich, enterprise strength, and the idea is that it should be the rich corporations that put people at risk. In the uk we have the legal instruments are, in the first instance, the criminal law, ” says Martin Schulz.
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