Torts
We think of the US as a highly litigious society. People can be sued for any number of things. If snow isn’t shoveled in front of your house, you are liable. If a construction site is unsecured and someone gets hurt, the developer can be liable. Etc. I don’t think that rampant suits are the norm here. And we see many “dangerous” things that you don’t see in the states. There was major construction in front of a shopping area, with a large crater in the ground. There was no fencing around it, and children were playing along the periphery. An upscale coffee shop needed some elevation for customers to get inside, and so there were a couple of uneven boulders placed out front that we climbed up on in place of a step. In the states, these would be opportunities begging for law suits, and so the owners would want to avoid the likely expense. And so the owners instead will “do the right thing” to keep pedestrians and passers-by safe. Maybe lawsuits are a really good thing after all, creating the needed incentives for owners to keep their workspaces safe.
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