Cape May Court House: A Death in the Night
by Lawrence Schiller
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Author: Lawrence SchillerEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-11-01
ISBN: 0060006684
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: HarperTorch
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Book Review: Product Liability or Murder?
Summary: 3 Stars
Suppose someone sued a major corporation for product failure and the plaintiff ended up looking like the bad guy. That's the premise here. A grieving husband sues Ford claiming that his wife, Tracy, was killed when an airbag suffocated her in a low speed accident. Naturally Ford fights the suit all out - no company wants to be accused of causing the death of a pregnant woman.
Except the facts never quite add up. What 6 month pregnant woman drives her sick 2 year old to the hospital on a snowy night while her perfectly healthy husband sits in the passenger seat? What kind of idiot plaintiff lies under oath during depositions about the amount of insurance he received as a result of the accident? What kind of lowlife tells his in-laws they can't see their grandchild unless they agree to remove all the pictures of their dead daugher and agree not to mention her to her own child?
Eric Thomas, the idiot plaintiff and lowlife in question, makes you want to go out and kiss a class-action lawsuit lawyer. Why? Because in addition to the jerkiness noted above this cretin started a lawsuit claiming lose of companionship due to the death of his wife when he a) was having an affair during the last 6 months of his wife's life and b) remarried less than a year later. Because he took his wife's $400,000 life insurance policy and spent it on a pool, two new cars and other goodies without putting a dime away for his child. Because even if he didn't actually murder his wife he let her drive in a snow storm when she was six months pregnant while he sat in the passenger seat.
Ford uncovers enough evidence to at they very least question the circumstances of Tracy's death. What happens next is a battle of the experts and a little old-fashioned detective work. At first Ford looks like the corporate behemoth beating up on the little guy, but as the inconsistencies mount the Plaintiff begins to look more like a defendent.
As books on product liability lawsuits go, this one won't be giving A Civil Action a run for the top spot. I'll give Schiller credit for managing to eek some drama out of depositions. I've sat through depositions and believe me you're more likely to fall off your chair because you've fallen asleep than be on the edge of your seat with excitement. Usually books told from the lawyers' POV bore me to tears but this one held my interest. Still, it's hard not to get the impression that Schiller could have done more original reporting and a lot less ample quoting from the court record. This book may leave you frustrated with the incompetence of so many who should have properly investigated this accident from the beginning.
Finally, Schiller could do with turning down the volume on his own publicity machine. "One of our best investigative journalists"? And "an esteemed motion picture director"? What's next, his old SAT score?
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