Arbitration & Mediation

The $54 Million Laptop? Great?.a Roy Pearson Copy Cat.

By Christopher Annunziata

It appears we have our first confirmed Roy Pearson copy cat. Washington Area consumer Raelyn Campbell is suing Best Buy for $54 million after they lost her $1,100 laptop computer. What makes Ms. Campbell only slightly different from Pearson is that a) she seems to have a legitimate gripe against Best Buy; b) she appears to have been reasonable in attempting to resolve the matter; c) she admits that she “has no expectation she will win a multimillion-dollar judgment”; and d) Best Buy handled the problem poorly. What makes her exactly the same as the infamous Judge Pearson is that she became entrenched in her position and rejected reasonable offers that protected her interests and fairly compensated her.

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Full post as published by CKA Mediation and Arbitration Services Blog on February 15, 2008 (boomark / email).