Should be allowed to sue when the situation is your own fault?

 Today in the Denver Post, there is an article about a Highlands Ranch family who allowed their six year old daughter to eat raw cookie dough from the tube.  Not a big deal, you may say, but the little girl, within half an hour, got violently ill. While doctors were finding out that it E. Coli causing the illness, the little girl nearly had kidney failure.  Now, a month later, the little girl is healthy and happy again, and her parents have a huge hospital bill. And they want Nestle to pay it.

They are only the second lawsuit filed against Nestle in regards to cookie dough; the first case was filed by an 18 year old in California.

But should Nestle pay them? Should they even be allowed to file a lawsuit?  In my opinion, no.

The parents failed to read the instructions on the tube, which clearly state that it is not to be ingested raw. I don't expect the six year old to have read it, but I do expect the adults to act responsibly.  They failed to do so, and and now they want someone else to clean up the mess they pretty much made.

I am of the opinion that NO ONE should be allowed to sue Nestle if they ate the cookie dough raw and got ill from it.

Yes, the cookie dough is tainted. Yes, it IS Nestle's fault that the cookie dough got tainted. Yes, they needed to recall it and they need to clean that factory, and be subject to rigorous inspection and maybe even a government fine.

But no one deserves to get paid because they failed to pay attention or were basically just plain foolish.

America is too sue happy and too happy to pass the buck. This time, the buck needs to stop with the people who failed to use the product correctly and suffered the consequences of it. Do not pass GO, do not collect $200K.

I hope the judges see it as not the fault of the company, and I hate to see Nestle have to buckle under because of misuse of their product. But likely, Nestle will settle, everyone will get paid, and you and I will be paying more for our chocolate chips.