Currier filed suit against Quinn’s mother, Suzanne Schipper, for “negligent entrustment”…
I remember a case in Ohio where a woman lent her car to her boyfriend knowing he was drunk, had about 8 DUI convictions, and had a revoked license and they tried her using a similar argument. In that instance I supported the use of this.
In this instance, unless there’s something we’re not hearing about in the story I fail to see how there was any shared liability on the mother’s part.
It’s terrible what’s happened to this young man but it’s a darn good thing I wasn’t on that jury… of course, any lawyer worth his salt would exclude me anyway.
Agree that application of this theory of negligence is ridiculous. Unfortunately, the pltf. played the four-letter trump card(QUAD). My experience with these cases has shown that juries can’t objectively render a “no liability” decision after seeing ” a day in the life” video of the Quad. The award sounds impressive, but if there’s insufficient coverage to pay it, it’s a token.
Let us all remember, this is VERMONT, home of the tree huggers and speckled foot toads who need two acres of land just to breed. The land where children roam free only to be attacked, and Jessica’s law is not on the books.
The jury now hands out a $21 MILLION verdict that can’t be paid to the poor victim because Mom “lent her car”.
The attacker of a young girl gets a 3 month jail term, suspended after that.
Come on VERMONTERS wake up.
What a chauvinistic comment! Excuse me, Mr. Obvious, who pays more in auto premium – women or men? It’s men, bonehead! And it’s for your worse than average driving habits!
Many women are like some elderly drivers. they just go around causing accidents but usually are oblivious to this fact and often not actually in the accident.
However, in this case the excessive amount of speed and the fact she hit a rather immobile object ( a house ) clued her into the fact that she had been in an accident. If she had hit a lesser object such as a car mirror or fender, mailbox, bush or a small animal she probably would not have noticed.
Susan, for your future edification you might look for signs such as dust clouds behind you, gravel sounds, loud screeching noises, smoke or emergency vehicle sirens. These often indicate a problem and you might want to slow down or stop to see if something has occurred.
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Currier filed suit against Quinn’s mother, Suzanne Schipper, for “negligent entrustment”…
I remember a case in Ohio where a woman lent her car to her boyfriend knowing he was drunk, had about 8 DUI convictions, and had a revoked license and they tried her using a similar argument. In that instance I supported the use of this.
In this instance, unless there’s something we’re not hearing about in the story I fail to see how there was any shared liability on the mother’s part.
It’s terrible what’s happened to this young man but it’s a darn good thing I wasn’t on that jury… of course, any lawyer worth his salt would exclude me anyway.
Agree that application of this theory of negligence is ridiculous. Unfortunately, the pltf. played the four-letter trump card(QUAD). My experience with these cases has shown that juries can’t objectively render a “no liability” decision after seeing ” a day in the life” video of the Quad. The award sounds impressive, but if there’s insufficient coverage to pay it, it’s a token.
A very sad situation, however this a worthy read for any insured who might ask, why do I need a million dollar excess liability umbrella?
Let us all remember, this is VERMONT, home of the tree huggers and speckled foot toads who need two acres of land just to breed. The land where children roam free only to be attacked, and Jessica’s law is not on the books.
The jury now hands out a $21 MILLION verdict that can’t be paid to the poor victim because Mom “lent her car”.
The attacker of a young girl gets a 3 month jail term, suspended after that.
Come on VERMONTERS wake up.
Perhaps if she had not been talking on the cell phone and putting on her make-up she would not have been doing a 100 and ran into a house.
What a chauvinistic comment! Excuse me, Mr. Obvious, who pays more in auto premium – women or men? It’s men, bonehead! And it’s for your worse than average driving habits!
You say that Mr Obvious is a chauvinist and then you insinuate that women are better drivers. Who’s the chauvinist here?
Many women are like some elderly drivers. they just go around causing accidents but usually are oblivious to this fact and often not actually in the accident.
However, in this case the excessive amount of speed and the fact she hit a rather immobile object ( a house ) clued her into the fact that she had been in an accident. If she had hit a lesser object such as a car mirror or fender, mailbox, bush or a small animal she probably would not have noticed.
Susan, for your future edification you might look for signs such as dust clouds behind you, gravel sounds, loud screeching noises, smoke or emergency vehicle sirens. These often indicate a problem and you might want to slow down or stop to see if something has occurred.
If I could hear screeching and gravel and sirens, then obviously I didn’t have my stereo loud enough. Duh.
And, like, who aims their mirror to see out the back?? How am I supposed to see to put mascara on?!
See? We women can laugh along at the “woman driver” jokes – we can laugh along as we’re paying for our much cheaper auto insurance.
I always see people I’ve passed singnaling with 1 finger in my rear view mirror. I always figured they were telling me I’m 1 good driver.