Posted
7:44 AM
by Michael Fox
He said sarcastically, in light of yesterday's near 1 million pound award to a former broker employed in the London office of Cantor Fitzgerald, the U.S. company heavily hit in the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. The report on the website of Croner Consulting sounds closest to the U.S. tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress or outrage. It is a slippery slope when we start using lawsuits to determine what is civil behavior and what is not. Of course we started on that course some time ago.
