Extras See The Color Of Money
Extras may have been injured while Cruisin’!
Twelve movie extras are demanding $11 million in damages from Tom Cruise and his production company after allegedly suffering broken bones, cuts and bruises in the filming of World War Two picture “Valkyrie” in Berlin last year. The extras allegedly were injured in August 2007, when the side panel of a period German army truck burst open while turning a corner in central Berlin.
The attorney for the extras, Ariane Bluttner, says she will file a suit in the U.S. if her clients do not receive a satisfactory settlement and claims that a U.S. judge could order punitive damages for negligence if the case went to court.
Popsquire’s perspective…
The extras’ attorney may be playing this wrong. The most effective weapon against a high profile person often is the threat of bad publicity. Once an attorney tells the public about a lawsuit, the leverage is gone and the celebrity is forced to fight back.
Moreover, claims for workplace injuries generally are covered by Workers’ Compensation laws and, therefore, damages are limited. Indeed, threats about punitive damages in this case may have no sound basis in the law!
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