And here I was thinking that our courts are already overburdened with frivolous cases.
By design, yes.
A guy I know was driving on his motorcycle in the US, following an ambulance. The ambulance miss an entry it wanted to go in, does a crazy U-turn-ish manoeuver and gets a frontal collision with the guy. Remember that he was
following them. So, both are insured and this goes to court. The guy sues the ambulance driver for his damage, the ambulance driver sues him back for whatever damage he did to them (not much).
The guy comes back to Canada and the lawyer in the US manage the case for him. The lawyer did everything, his client never entered the court at all. It took seven years of lawyering to get the case settled. The money for that came out of the insurance company that was covering the ambulance.
Had this happened in Montreal, the ambulance driver would have been covered by an automatic insurance from the government that would have been paid from the license plate fees and the victim would have got the money instantly with no court involved. That would be a lot less money spent all around than 7 years of court.
That's just one example but the US system is full of bureaucratic matters that are burdened by the court system. And that is a frivolous use of a court of law.