re: #35 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Cain: I was ‘falsely accused’ of sexual harassment

“”I was falsely accused while I was at the National Restaurant Association, and I say falsely because it turned out after the investigation to be baseless”

NBC confirms one Cain accuser received cash settlement

Yeah, lots of organizations offer settlements over baseless accusations, happens all the time.
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Actually, they do. I work at a big company, and I know that we pay five figures on employment cases where we really don’t think we did anything wrong, for a few of reasons:

1> the transaction costs
2> the fact that, while we may think we didn’t do anything wrong, any time a case goes to a jury with a caption like “sally smith vs bigcorp”, juries will lean towards Sally, and
3> the distraction of getting senior management deposed and such.

So we settle. We grit our teeth, but we settle.