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	Name:	Jim120 -
	Subject:	HEY!!!!
	Date:	8/16/2008 9:16:01 PM

I haven't bothered to read the complaint. If indeed it includes as defendants the parents of the 22-year old who was driving the boat, and if they own the boat, and if as newspaper stories have suggested the young man has some sort of prior issues with impaired vehicle operation, then a claim against the boat owners who gave him permission to drive the boat could be based on a theory of "negligent entrustment." In this case it would be against the parents as boat owners, not as parents per se.

I hasten to add I know nothing about the facts other than what's been in the paper, and it's not my role to look into it. The litigation process will take care of that.

By the way, whatever the contingent fee arrangement may be between the lawyers and their client, I doubt the timing of the filing has anything to do with the fee percentage. Generally speaking, attorneys claims a lower contingent fee where a TRIAL is not necessary, and a larger fee where it is. By TRIAL is meant taking a case into court and trying it to a verdict with all the attendant cost, time (preparation and trial time) and risk. If the case is settled at any point short of a trial and verdict, generally the contingent fee would be less.