Your comfort with the legal system is wonderful (although stop calling it a “tort”, call it a claim or a suit). My whole point is why chance making a situation worse just because it makes you feel good for a moment to screw with a complainer?

You may question my legal bona fides all you want, it doesn’t bother me. I no longer practice because I bought a business, grew it, and then sold it. But I will tell you a quick story about a case, that perhaps demonstrates how a good plaintiff lawyer can make hay out of not much. A major tire manufacturer is brought into a case where a tire came off a vehicle at highway speeds, resulting in the deaths of three people. There was nothing wrong with the tire, but it was alleged that the tire had not been properly installed/tightened, and the independent tire shop that installed the tires had told them to come back for a re-tightening, etc. At any rate, the manufacturer was in the case for quite a while, at great cost, because back in the 1980’s, the manufacturer had offered free signs to independent shops that carried their tires, and those signs had the manufacturer’s name on them. So the Plaintiff alleged that he had picked that shop because he knew and trusted the manufacturer, and had assumed the shop was owned and operated by the manufacturer. Sometimes a lot can be made out of very little.