Woman is suing Best Buy for $54 Million!  

Ah, yes once again the lawyers have a field day. We are a society who loves to sue over everything. A guy sues over a pair of pants etc. I find this lady's suit of $54 million outrageous. I can understand she may have lost a lot of important information but that is what the experts tell us over and over again to back up info and to have info stored separately. $54 million? If a jury goes to this amount they are stupid.

People can be so greedy. There should be an upper limit on what people can sue for without hard evidence of cost. Personally, I think that the Court should throw the case out and fine her for wasting their time. But she'll no doubt settle out of court for the kind of money that the average family takes 10 years to earn. Makes your blood boil.

I totally support this woman.
Nest Buy lost a laptop that contained her personal information that can lead to identity teft.
Potentially it can cost her millions of dollars! People in Best Buy never really took her seriously by offering her $900 in gift cards (source - yahoo.com) for a laptop that was bought for over $1100!
Its unbelievable.
Its best buy's own fault and they should pay for it.

Considering some of the stupid court decisions in the past, this woman will probably win.

Our legal system seems to be determined to do everything possible to destroy business in the US, and I have no confidence in it at all.

She was reimbursed for the loss of her computer, and that should have been the end of it.

I hope she loses and has to pay the legal fees.

Yeah there are some people out there just looking for a way to get rich quick. She's suing for $54 million bucks....but I'll bet she gets at least a cool million out of it if they settle out of court!!..Lori

That is what I thought until I saw the interview on the Today show with the lady. It is not about money it is the principle of how she was treated by the customer service. They offered her the gift card after a year of giving her lies and platitudes about ordering parts, have to send it to another site for repairs, etc. and it never left the original store as there was no record of having even attempted to repair it. She knows she will never get the money but at least asking for such a huge amount brought to every-one's attention. BTW Best Buy refused to appear or give an comment on the show.

Now we have to see what is on that computer. If this woman's laptop had all of her work on it and she did not have anything backed up then it might be worth millions of dollars. Can you just imagine what somepeople have on their computers. I have all of my photos they are worth lots of money I do not have have some of them backed up. If I lost them it would be a huge of semential loss to me.
Now if that woman had her whole business with bank infor, client lists and other such stuff on her computer then they need to pay.
SHAME ON HER FOR NOT HAVING ALL HER INFO BACKED UP.

the problem is not the laptop anymore, while they really miss handled this, there is the issue that she had personal information that she could not get off the laptop, due to the broken power button, this is where Best Buy has a severe issue of this....

The laptop contained her tax returns on it, think about it, that would be everything anyone needed to commit fraud, and if you say the laptop was broken, all it would take is to take out hte hard drive, and pop it in a new laptop....its more than the laptop,

And Best Buy had a legal obligation to tell her that her laptop was stolen or missing and she could be compromised.

If you read any of the multiple stories out on the net, she has a valid claim on what htey did and did not do.

Best Buy will be learning and paying, maybe not 54 million, but she will get a settlement out of it, what she really wants to know is what htey wouldn't have told her in the beginning, how did it happen and why weren't you honest with me.

Mooch

I would like to say that I am shocked and suprised by this but I think we have all become desensitised to these over the top lawsuits! Ok maybe she should have been offfered help in the anti identify theft field and some decent compensation for all her lost data etc but $54 million worth? Can't you just smell a greedy lawyer trying to make a name for themselves? xxxx

I would understand a lawsuit if they didn't give her anything...but she probably got more than she spent for the laptop....
I am not a big fan of the company Best Buy...but this is a bit much.