Life Can Be Traumatic, So Sue Someone

Recently, a federal grand jury in Billings, Mont., awarded $1 million to a woman who said she suffers from post-traumatic stress after her Delta Airlines jet made an emergency landing in November of 1996.

The case gained national attention because it opens the floodgate for other post-traumatic stress lawsuits, which includes anyone who has ever ridden in a taxi in downtown New York.

Though I never suffered anything as severe as post-traumatic stress from my own NYC taxi experience, it was many weeks before I could free my mind from the terrifying image of my taxi driver yelling out his window while navigating through Madison Avenue traffic using only his knees so he could flip off another taxi driver with both hands. Even today, I