Bad news for GA and Cirrus, Manufacturers will just have to increase there prices to pay for more and more frivolous lawsuits. Higher prices mean less units sold which means less economy of scale and just a very bad outcome.
That is why when Piper were brought to their knees by law suits they took a policy of fighting every case rather than settling.
It even got to this mad situation. A Piper Cub built 30 odd years earlier but carrying the Piper Name and highly illegally modified by its owner had crashed killing the owner. The relatives made a claim against Piper suing for $ Millions.
Lawyers go for where the money is and courts sympathy lies with the claimants not the insurance companies regardless of negligence. Cirrus will have to make it clear they will fight every claim to the death and not settle through fear as Piper did.
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