Major League Soccer Player Sues Nightclub and Red Bull
October 31, 2011
Here’s one you don’t hear about everyday:
DC United’s Charlie Davies Sues DC Nightclub, Drink Company Red Bull Over Car Crash
The professional soccer player claims that the bar and Red Bull overserved, and continued to overserve a woman alcohol. The woman has since pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter and drunken driving for the 2009 car accident.
This type of case is referred to as a “dram shop liability” case. Basically, restaurants and bars have a duty to stop serving people that are noticeably overly intoxicated. Otherwise, they contribute to drunk driving and the car accidents they cause.
The big problem I see with Mr. Davies’ case?
If this were in Oklahoma, an insurance defense attorney would definitely want to point out that Davies was hanging out with the woman that caused the accident. So, Davies should have known the risk of getting in the car with someone that was heavily intoxicated. This is known as “assumption of risk.”
Cell Phone Outage Prevents Accidents?this
October 22, 2011
I’ve mentioned before about Oklahoma planning to ban texting while driving. While the measure was shot down in the Oklahoma House of Representatives last year, here’s more evidence that we need to cut out messing with our phones while driving:
Freakonomics (which is a fun blog to subscribe to) has a good blog post on the BlackBerry outage in the drop in car accidents in Abu Dhabi. This is a staggering statistic – the number of car accidents fell by 40%, and there were no fatal car accidents.
