Taser gets litigious over suggestions the device causes deaths

[Not a robought]

Source: The Canadian Press

VANCOUVER - Anyone who launches a lawsuit against Taser International Inc. or suggests a Taser electronic device was involved in a death are liable to get another shock when the company brings down the full force of its legal team.

Taser International is currently named as a defendant in at least 39 wrongful death or personal injury lawsuits where a Taser was used.

The company is aggressive in defending itself in such lawsuits and has entered into agreements to prevent its own insurance provider from settling out of court,

It has even filed a lawsuit demanding an Ohio coroner change her conclusion that a Taser was a contributing factor in the deaths of two men.

Read more: http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gW0phZRRqc3h8CzMK97QPg5Q5lGA

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If you read further down, amongst the lawsuits against Taser, there are 10 training-injury related lawsuits brought forward by cops.

While we're at it, can we also argue that there are no deaths attributed to smoking cigarettes? It's lung cancer, stroke and heart disease that kill people - not cigarette smoking.

:sarcasm:

[Bitwit1234]

1. Stop and think

You have the ability to start smoking. You do it on your own, BUT, it does become addictive. Now being ta sered is not voluntary. You are ta sered usually by some form of law enforcement and in a heck of lot of cases, for some infraction, OR NOT, that was trivial. Some people might be allergic, some people might have a medical condition. How would the law enforcement know that.

I think, that law enforcement officers, should be told, and it should be enforced that if a person is ta sered, and there is injury they will be fired and they will be responsible for the ensuing law suit.

I know that there are exceptions. But there are so many other peaceful resolutions that ta sering is not usually necessary.

Esample, my son is 6'2" weights close to 200 and looks healthy as can be. But he is diabetic, has high blood pressure and a heart condition. How would you know that. By looking at him you wouldn't so tasering should be a very last resort and only if a person is violent.

[Not a robought]

2. Ex-Taser worker alleges she was threatened

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=2b3b519c-56ae-402e-bfb2-fd8565ee9c35&k=19086&p=1

Pam Schreiner, who worked for the Arizona-based maker of the electric-shock weapons in 2004, says she was threatened and intimidated, including her home being shot at, after she saw company officials intentionally shredding Taser injury reports during a legal proceeding, according to court documents.

"Since leaving Taser International, I have lived in fear of what Taser International will do to me. The company has enormous resources and connections through law enforcement," Ms. Schreiner says in an affidavit sworn this summer and filed in a court in Georgia.

"I have been verbally threatened by people hired by Taser to harass and intimidate me. I was told by the two Chandler police officers that they had conducted surveillance of my residence, followed me around and gone through my garbage," her affidavit says.

[kurth]

3. Everyone knows Robert Dziekanski died peacefully in bed of old age

[EFerrari]

4. Suggestions?

:wow:

[Akoto]

5. Of course they defend themselves aggressively.

They make their bucks off of selling a weapon which supposedly disables while not killing. Remove the 'not' in that sentence and the company's pitch kinda goes out the window. The taser then becomes a pistol, only you're gambling as to whether each shot is a blank or a bullet.

[BadgerKid]

6. Let's see the maintenance records

What if the tasers are operating out of specification to the point that they act like mini-defibrillators? We've all heard of laptop computers catching on fire, so it's possible that portable batteries can be problematic.

[1monster]

7. S.L.A.P. Typical corporate tactic to prevent the public from having justice or their

day in court.

S.L.A.P.P. = Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation