UNDERSTANDING WHY JURORS WANT TO BLAME THE INJURED PLAINTIFF
Tom Wolfe, in his book The Right Stuff, described how military pilots reacted when a fellow pilot was killed during test flights. He wrote: “The other pilots shook their heads and said it was a damned shame, but he should have known better than to wait so long before lowering the flaps.” When another friend was killed after climbing and then diving straight into the bay, they said “How could anybody fail to check his hose connections? And how could…