Remington Settles with Sandy Hook Families $73 Million
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Remington, a gun manufacturer that designed the rifle Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter Adam Lanza used to kill 26 victims in Connecticut in 2012, has agreed to pay a $73 million settlement to victims' families.
The now-bankrupt gun maker, which had initially offered families a $33 million settlement in July, also agreed to allow families to release documents they had obtained over the course of their lawsuit against Remington showing how the manufacturer marketed the AR-15-style rifle on Dec. 14, 2012.
Remington, one of the nation’s oldest gun makers founded in 1816, filed for bankruptcy for a second time in 2020 and its assets were later sold off to several companies. The manufacturer was weighed down by lawsuits and retail sales restrictions following the school shooting.
This is Not coming out of any of the Current Companies using the Remington name, or the spin offs of the sale or Remington assets.
Fox News Reporting.
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The settlement offer in July of last year opened the door.
The case against Remington should have been thrown out upon receipt by the court, but we have not had a fully functioning judiciary for years.
The families should never have had to face this situation, but the blame cannot be placed upon the manufacturer of a properly functioning firearm.
More of these frivolous suits to follow. Manufactures' insurance will raise to the point that many will decide it is not worth it.
That, of course, is by design. Sad to say, but I have lost any sympathy or empathy I once had for these families. Gold-digging money whores.
Brad Steele
This is insane. Bad news for the Second Amendment.
Are GM, Ford and Chrysler going to be responsible for auto deaths? Can we sue cell phone companies?
Those Kobalt hammers lowes sell can make a mighty fine weapon.
The Sandy hookers will go to hell for this.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
...A parents nightmare to be in that situation, horrible...
...I don't think the suit was for the manufacture of the gun used...but for how it was marketed...the families claimed that Remington targeted the kids with their marketing campaign, a nuance yes, but it obviously worked...this will just open the flood gates for more money grubbing attorneys with fees ranging from 35% to 45%, PLUS expenses ...the client could end up with 30 to 35% of a settlement...BINGO! Attorney wins!...
Pretty much any product made can be misused in a fashion that can do harm. If I buy a fifth of old numbskull and give it to a minor resulting in that minor crashing a car, who should be liable? Is it the distillers fault that their product worked as advertised, or is it my fault for giving it to the minor? In this case Remington produced a product that wasn't sufficiently secured from being misused, but I guess the mother doesn't have deep enough pockets to warrant being sued. Will there be a future where all advertising becomes a victim to cancel culture? Will we have to sign a waiver to buy a gun, knife, scissors, baseball bat, matches, vehicle, gasoline, etc., etc...? It is a pretty sad commentary on the state of our so called civilization when I have to wonder about this. Bob
Only in America.
total BS in so many ways the courts should have tossed it the fist day in court .
it opened the flood gates as the left has promised ther sheeple there will be hundreds if not thousands of suits filed following this "settlement "
so now any car company or any tool company or ??? can be held liable for the use of the product if improper use by the consumer let me answer "well no just firearm company's you silly old fool "
I read a few months back Remington brand was bought out by some huge corporation and they decided to just pay and move on to get it off there back .
the left and the lawyers are smiling all the way to the banks
just another huge step against guns and owners . toss in the almost one billion records the government is holding on firearms and the writing is on the wall
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If Remington is out of business and now defunct,where will the $73 million come from?
It has been said that this country has way too many lawyers. What do you think Earl? Today it's Remington and tomorrow?
Found this little snippet in a article
Four insurers for the now-bankrupt company agreed to pay the full amount of coverage available, totaling $73 million, the plaintiffs said
This is the end of the beginning!!
I believe that Don is spot on with his statement
Pandora's Box is wide open now. Sorry state of affairs, now all suits can point to Remington's verdict.
Fox News just might have done enough firearms research to accurately report the facts. Remington certainly did not design Eugene Stoner's rifle any more than Taurus designed the 1911.
l just won an auction for a CZ rifle here on GB. They made a zillion guns for Nazi Germany during WW2. lmagine the families of
dead Allied soldiers suing CZ.. Crazy? Yes. But no more crazy than this STUPID Sandy Hook ruling against Remington
The whore part is right on point.
Especially when reading the article on the settlement.
The families said in one sentence “it’s not about the money” then they say it was about exposing Remingtons marketing practices for the AR.
Ok....here's the plan. Massive lawsuit on KFC. How many innocent lives have to be lost to coronary heart disease? That concoction of eleven hebs and spices has put many a fatman in an early grave, and they need to be stopped before I'm next.
It makes just as much sense for a fat man to sue KFC, as it makes for these families to sue Remington.
These lawyers are shameless. They will do anything for money.
While I agree pandoras box has been opened, the opening was done in 2019 when the court ruled that the lawsuit could go forward. There was no court verdict of guilty in this case. Instead, it was a settlement offered by the insurance companies of the now defunct Remington arms. The precedent set is that the case was allowed to go forward. Now any manufacturer can be bankrupted by legal fees for selling a product that worked as advertised, but that was misused. This will probably continue until some elite liberal company like a Hollywood studio or Facebook are sued for fomenting these horrific actions in the first place. Bob
young man i knew was out driving in his El Camino with wife and two small kids...did not want to wait for RR crossing arms to go up...along comes train, hits them and kills wife and one kid..now the issue is, does he sue the crossing arm mfg, or the train going to fast to stop on a dime, or chevy for building a vehicle that could not take a train hit ??????? insanity in the courtroom.......