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From: Steve Green
Date: May 22, 2019 5:22PM

One of our US clients was sued last year and I had the opportunity to study the paperwork that was filed. The plaintiff was asking the court to award a whole raft of financial penalties and other burdens such as annual accessibility testing for five years. Not all of them would benefit the plaintiff, but the total cost to the defendant, including both sides' legal fees, would be well north of $100,000, perhaps twice that, not including the cost of remediation.

Given that the plaintiffs are lawyers who know how all this works, I would be amazed if they settled out of court for less than $50,000.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd