Residents and visitors to New York will try to sue the city for just about anything. Civil litigation against the City of New York has increased by 2,500% since 1978 and its tort division handles over 90,000 cases a year. The latest figures, for 2003, show this cost the city’s taxpayers $500 million.
In one recent case, a drunken man tried to sue when he fell down stairs outside his house after being arrested for assaulting his wife after she refused to make him dinner.
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