[lotsofpulp]

> But the shooting excuse is an excuse because they're not even liable for this.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/court-approves-800m-set...

> A court on Wednesday approved a settlement totaling $800 million from casino company MGM Resorts International and its insurers to more than 4,400 relatives and victims of the Las Vegas Strip shooting that was the deadliest in recent U.S. history.

[wkat4242]

A settlement is not admission of liability. It's done to avoid a determination on this. But I think it's ridiculous that they even tried to sue the venue.

[lotsofpulp]

Some knowledgeable lawyers must have concluded that there is a likelihood of some liability (whether rightly or wrongly) to result in willingly parting with $800M. So in practice, there is liability.

[tbrownaw]

Or that the court case would end up costing that much, or that staying in the news because of the court case would end up costing that much. There's plenty of costs besides just what the actual judgement might end up being.

[lotsofpulp]

In the context of this discussion, there is no reason to distinguish liability from the judgment itself, or liability from legal costs of preventing the judgement.

The liability in this context is money leaving the business’s pocket due to performing or not performing X action, regardless of who the money goes to.