Originally Posted by Polaris43
Was the guy single?
In many states, if a person is single, their life has no monetary value. Parents or girlfriends / boyfriends didn't technically loose anything financially (according to the law) so they have no right to sue for lost income.
This is the worst kind of wrong. Unmarried = worthless
That makes sense. The point of suing someone in this situation wouldn't be to punish the evildoer (that's the court's job, theoretically), but to compensate any other victims for the financial loss, of which there was none if the guy didn't have a family depending on his income.