Now USA being blamed for Germanwings crash

Are they blaming the U.S.? Maybe I read it wrong but I thought they were seeking legal proceedings in the U.S. since compensation tends to be higher than in other countries.
 
They definitely are looking for our more generous offerings and maybe I'm reading more into this than may come out in the hearings but since the copilot was trained in Arizona, gotta think that will play out somewhere since he took several months off during his training for "personal reasons." The buck has been passed several times since the crash. I'm no lawyer but do wonder how this can even come to this side of the pond. Seems like it's a Germany problem.

Since they haven't announced their reasons for bringing it here, gotta wonder if they plan to drag the Arizona flight school into this also. Sure we'll hear more in the future.
 
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narchee said:
So where in this article is the USA being blamed?

All I saw is they want to sue Luftansa (a German company) in the US court system.

What am I missing?
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jurisdiction. under what legal theory can a german company be sued in a US court?
 
old cfi said:
They definitely are looking for our more generous offerings and maybe I'm reading more into this than may come out in the hearings but since the copilot was trained in Arizona, gotta think that will play out somewhere since he took several months off during his training for "personal reasons." The buck has been passed several times since the crash. I'm no lawyer but do wonder how this can even come to this side of the pond. Seems like it's a Germany problem.

Since they haven't announced their reasons for bringing it here, gotta wonder if they plan to drag the Arizona flight school into this also. Sure we'll hear more in the future.
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We call this Forum Shopping in the legal community.
 
From a legal perspective, the US is to the world what places like Madison County, IL (or specifically patent-related, Marshall, TX) are to the US. Read more here.
 
narchee said:
So where in this article is the USA being blamed?

All I saw is they want to sue Luftansa (a German company) in the US court system.

What am I missing?
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You're missing that lawyers are scum and accident victims are gold-diggers. At least according to people like the OP.
 
German media says that only the relatives of the U.S. citizens (4 or so) which were on board the flight are suing Germanwings here in the U.S..
 
old cfi said:
They definitely are looking for our more generous offerings and maybe I'm reading more into this than may come out in the hearings but since the copilot was trained in Arizona, gotta think that will play out somewhere since he took several months off during his training for "personal reasons." The buck has been passed several times since the crash. I'm no lawyer but do wonder how this can even come to this side of the pond. Seems like it's a Germany problem.

Since they haven't announced their reasons for bringing it here, gotta wonder if they plan to drag the Arizona flight school into this also. Sure we'll hear more in the future.
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Lufthansa operates their own flight school in Arizona.
 
The title of this thread is a bit misleading... the US isn't being blamed for anything. It's just that the plaintiffs in this case believe they can make more money out of Lufthansa in a US court than in a German court.

I don't have a problem with it.
 
rk911 said:
so anyone can sue anyone anywhere? makes no sense to me. Shakespeare was right.
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Shakespeare was right that getting rid of lawyers would be a suitable first step in setting up a dictatorship.
 
rk911 said:
so anyone can sue anyone anywhere? makes no sense to me. Shakespeare was right.
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Lufthansa certainly has a U.S. subsidiary. They also did the training here through a company most certainly owned by the airline. So no, not anyone can sue anyone anywhere. But you can sue a U.S. company in the U.S.
 
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