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From: Steve Green
Date: Oct 10, 2018 11:11AM

We have been involved in two legal cases in the US this year. Our experience is that while a small proportion of cases are genuine, the vast majority are not - they are just lawyers taking advantage of the system to make a stack of cash. Neither of our clients' cases were genuine.

As such, once a plaintiff files a case it becomes a game and all the advice we usually give no longer applies. In all probability the plaintiff is looking for a quick pay-out, and their strategy is to throw a ton of crap at you in the hope of a quick out-of-court settlement. Despite what they say, the last thing they want is for you to actually fix everything, so it's not worth even trying unless you can do so very rapidly, by which I mean a couple of weeks. In the longer term, all the usual advice still applies so you don't get sued again.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd