re: #42 garhighway

Actually, they do. I work at a big company, and I know that we pay five figures on employment cases where we really don’t think we did anything wrong, for a few of reasons:

1> the transaction costs
2> the fact that, while we may think we didn’t do anything wrong, any time a case goes to a jury with a caption like “sally smith vs bigcorp”, juries will lean towards Sally, and
3> the distraction of getting senior management deposed and such.

So we settle. We grit our teeth, but we settle.

I know of payoffs in cases where the accusations are questionable, but if as Cain is stating they’re completely baseless, I would think they would have refused to pay out anything.