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[iapetus]

A New York woman who ran up debts of $951,000 on her Amex account is sueing the company for $2m for allowing her to hammer the plastic, Newsday reports.

Antoinette Millard, 40, says American Express should have realised she was mentally incompetent when she opened the sky's-the-limit Centurion account. Her court filing states that American Express "knew or should have known that [Millard] was acting impulsively and and irrationally at the time she entered into contract". She cites anorexia, depression, panic attacks and "head tumors" as contributory factors to her mental incompetence.

American Express has obtained a court order freezing $951,000 in assets belonging to the former vice president at the Brown Brothers Harriman investment bank. To add to Millard's woes, she is currently on $100,000 bail awaiting trial on grand larceny charges after attempting to relieve an insurance company of $262,000 for jewellery she claims was stolen, but allegedly sold. If convicted, she faces up to 15 years' jail. ®

Duh.

 

[Escape Goat]

Noone is this f*cking country knows what personal responsibility is. Ugh.

 

[Guzim]

:lol :lol :lol

 

[SKluck]

Million dollar AMEX bill.... wow.

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

Expect her to lose.

Expect the papers to never report this fact.

Expect mroe "tort reform" rallying in response.

Bah.

 

[Azih]

I wonder if Amex lawyers will use the "Ecrofirt's girlfriend" defense.

 

[iapetus]

Expect her to lose.

Expect the papers to never report this fact.

Well duh. It's a ludicrous case, and of course she's going to lose. The reason it's reported isn't because she's expected to win, it's because it's a man-bites-dog sort of situation that she's even making the effort.

 

[MetatronM]

She cites anorexia, depression, panic attacks and "head tumors" as contributory factors to her mental incompetence.

:lol

I certainly hope she has medical records to back that one up.

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

Well duh. It's a ludicrous case, and of course she's going to lose. The reason it's reported isn't because she's expected to win, it's because it's a man-bites-dog sort of situation that she's even making the effort.

And yet, it will be used as another chip in the tort-reform war, despite the outcome. Just like the McDonald's Coffee case, which was reduced on appeal *and* settled out of court for less.

 

[bishoptl]

"head tumours"? :lol

Until I see a link proving otherwise, this has to be from the Onion for sure.