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I'm glad it's not possible to Sue in my country. Saves a lot of silly nonsense and has people a bit more responsible about their actions instead of doing random shit and sueing willy nilly when the shit hits the fan

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Serious question: how do handle broken contracts, malicious acts, etc?

Pistols at dawn.

In Sweden you can only sue in civil cases where there's a real disagreement, not because someone spilled coffee on you. Not sure if it would be applicable in this case though.

We often hear about the crazy lawsuit culture in US anyway and how insane it is. Whether that is true or not I don't know.

Throwing hot coffee over someone would that not be covered then ?

But tort law does exist, right? So if somebody purposefully spills boiling hot coffee over you, you will be able to sue them. The claims are just less outrageous than in the US because there are no punitive damages for example.

Which country do you live in?

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