I have two points to make on this.

The first is that there is trouble with our litigious system. It's the judicial lottery, find an attorney and file a lawsuit, and becasue of the high costs of litigation, you can get some sort of settlement to reward you. The attorney does the work on a contingency basis.

Result: lots of stupid law suits. Clogged courtrooms. Idiotic things companys have to do in order to avoid getting sued.

Solution: There should be a rule that if you sue someone, and if you lose, then you pay their attorney's fees and the court costs. That would discourage these stupid law suits.

My second point is this (and I don't know the widow so I am only speculating):

Even if someone like that widow understands that it isn't UA's fault, people around her start eating away at her telling her she should sue.

She reads the paper and sees stories in the news where people sue on similar flimsy grounds and win a lot of money in the judicial lottery.

She says to herself, "my case has a lot more merit than that case, and those people had the nerve to sue and they got a lot of money. Maybe I'm being stupid. Maybe I should sue UA. Everyone else is, why shouldn't I?"

So the widow gets one of the willing lawyers and joins in the judicial lottery.

Our small airplane industry stopped making planes until congress passed a limit on their liability. The judicial lottery is killing innovation and hurting business in the USA and it needs to be stopped through legislation along the lines I mention above.