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Personal Injury lawsuit?

dlewis516

I went to a spa/salon for a treatment and suffered burns on my back, which 6 months later, still show tiny scar marks.  Is it a thing here in Vietnam where I could sue the place for personal injury/disfigurement?  I admit that the 2 scar marks are tiny (maybe 1 cm each) and of not much significance visually. In the US, lawyers would be all over this.  Is that done here or even worth pursuing in Vietnam?

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Fred

I went to a spa/salon for a treatment and suffered burns on my back, which 6 months later, still show tiny scar marks. Is it a thing here in Vietnam where I could sue the place for personal injury/disfigurement? I admit that the 2 scar marks are tiny (maybe 1 cm each) and of not much significance visually. In the US, lawyers would be all over this. Is that done here or even worth pursuing in Vietnam? - @dlewis516

There are such lawyers (according to google that provides a list of sharks,  sorry, personal injury lawyers)

However,  the real  question is  all  about taking the arsehole end of US litigation to another  country.

Personally, I would consider myself to be  a lowlife thief if  I attempted to  screw a compaany out of cash  for such nothing injury.

I might well try to negotiate a few free sessions at the spa, but hiring a riipoff merchant is  way beyond fair  and resonable.


The above is just an opinion.

Aidan in HCMC

@dlewis516

Vietnamese style spa/salon, a tẩm quất ? If so, many people have gotten burned by those silly, useless, heated glass cups placed on one's back.


Sure, you can sue. In fact, you can sue anyone for any reason. Would you win pleading "injury/disfigurement" for two 1cm marks on your back? I doubt it very, very much. Even if you were to win your case, what asset(s) would you intend to execute on? If you lost your case, you might find yourself on the hook for the respondent's legal costs as well as your own.


Write it down as a lesson learned, and let it go.

OceanBeach92107

I went to a spa/salon for a treatment and suffered burns on my back, which 6 months later, still show tiny scar marks. Is it a thing here in Vietnam where I could sue the place for personal injury/disfigurement? I admit that the 2 scar marks are tiny (maybe 1 cm each) and of not much significance visually. In the US, lawyers would be all over this. Is that done here or even worth pursuing in Vietnam? - @dlewis516

Definitely not worth pursuing.


I noticed that you describe your injury but you don't describe the therapy that you accepted.


This was either "hot stone" therapy or the heated cups that Aidan mentioned.


Unless you want to be laughed at by the police and any potential lawyer, I'd highly advise getting over it, especially since there was almost certainly some moment when you accepted that proposed therapy.