Jeremy, my take on a story like that, is not to "shiver in my boots" for the risk of "touching an arrow-head", etc.... There will ALWAYS be fluke stories of some "deep pockets entity" (general electric, in that case) having the book-thrown-at-him for something silly. There are endless examples of big corporations being pursued for stuff that everyone else, does, every-day-of-the-week. Like, I look at things that K-mart gets sued for (over-time calculation disputes, discrimination against some class, etc...) and think "sheesk, every employer I know does those things.
So you can't take "fluke stories" and make them the norm. For example: If I looked long enough and hard enough, I could no doubt find a story of someone roughed up, car confiscated , jailed and ticketed, for leaving his pet bunny in the car while he went into 7-11 to get a slurpee. Why ? "Animal cruelty laws" (no doubt the bunny suffered deprivations, etc...). Ok, sure. But seriously now, if you did that tomorrow, would anyone care less ? OF COURSE NOT.
