a) The manufacturer must at least reimburse the damages he's done with his product.
Otherwise anyone can manufacture explosive broken fire-trigerring devices. There's no point of making a device 'safe' if a $1 device can't pay back more than $1. The only incentive is to make stuff cheap, ignore safety, risks and regulation.
If the manufacturer must close, so be it. Better that than dead people.
b) The scale is American. They sue for very high amount (higher than just the reimbursement), as the previous poster was explaining.
Otherwise anyone can manufacture explosive broken fire-trigerring devices. There's no point of making a device 'safe' if a $1 device can't pay back more than $1. The only incentive is to make stuff cheap, ignore safety, risks and regulation.
If the manufacturer must close, so be it. Better that than dead people.
b) The scale is American. They sue for very high amount (higher than just the reimbursement), as the previous poster was explaining.