Hey, Philly, I agree with your comments. Unless it just turned up missing, seems like there would have been some complaints.
I can’t pass judgment on the amount of the award. However, since ‘watch out for open manhole covers while I am walking straight ahead’ wasn’t on my ‘Things to make sure I do today’ I can’t help but think that the injured student likely deserves payment of his med bills AND compensation for his pain & suffering and lack of a lucrative career. And, to the post that comments about why he was still in Med School @ 30, it takes most students 5 years for undergrad school. Even if the guy was 18 when he began college, that makes him at least 23 when he gets his Bachelors. 7 years of addl schooling to become a physician sounds about right to me-especially if he was specializing.
Why do you think the manhole cover is 250lbs? It takes a special tool and 2 men to remove…and that’s just to go a few feet. Trigen simply forgot to replace, as theft of a 250lb metal disc is idiotic compared to being able to show Trigen accessed the hole a week or so before. Second, you need to read up on legal liability and strict liability…ie. you put holes in the ground in public access areas, you’re responsible to keep them covered and keep the public aware of the danger and reasonably safe from harm…why do you think construction sites have tape and barricades and signs all over them and why do you think manhole covers weigh 250lbs? Stick to Insurance.
Hey, Wow; hate to tell you this, but college kids steal things that makes no sense to steal.
We did it as kids, no special tools required, just a couple of big boys with too much time on their hands, or a frat to join.
Don’t preach liability to me/us, we’re all just speculating here since the article doesn’t give us the pertinant facts of the case. And you don’t know what I or anyone else does, nor what our knowledge level is.
You truly don’t know “the facts,” neither do any of us commenting. So don’t think your opinion holds more weight than any other. Relax and enjoy the fun.
So how is the power company liable for someone else removing their manhole cover? These things aren’t wired to a tracking center with some dispatcher able to say “Cover’s off at 4th and Main.” Give me a break.
Just think… knocked down from $85 million!!; very scary…lawyer used jury intelligence to his advantage…I bet the Med school card was played quite well.
I’m sure 250 pound steel discs get stolen all the time. Of course the power company is going to say someone else did it. Otherwise, they admit fault. Use your brain.
He is 30 and a medical student? Perhaps his fall might have saved a lot of other lives and countless med-mal settlements.I guess he wans’t top of his class.
As far as NOT seeing a missing manhole, it seems odd.
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Hey, Philly, I agree with your comments. Unless it just turned up missing, seems like there would have been some complaints.
I can’t pass judgment on the amount of the award. However, since ‘watch out for open manhole covers while I am walking straight ahead’ wasn’t on my ‘Things to make sure I do today’ I can’t help but think that the injured student likely deserves payment of his med bills AND compensation for his pain & suffering and lack of a lucrative career. And, to the post that comments about why he was still in Med School @ 30, it takes most students 5 years for undergrad school. Even if the guy was 18 when he began college, that makes him at least 23 when he gets his Bachelors. 7 years of addl schooling to become a physician sounds about right to me-especially if he was specializing.
Why do you think the manhole cover is 250lbs? It takes a special tool and 2 men to remove…and that’s just to go a few feet. Trigen simply forgot to replace, as theft of a 250lb metal disc is idiotic compared to being able to show Trigen accessed the hole a week or so before. Second, you need to read up on legal liability and strict liability…ie. you put holes in the ground in public access areas, you’re responsible to keep them covered and keep the public aware of the danger and reasonably safe from harm…why do you think construction sites have tape and barricades and signs all over them and why do you think manhole covers weigh 250lbs? Stick to Insurance.
Hey, Wow; hate to tell you this, but college kids steal things that makes no sense to steal.
We did it as kids, no special tools required, just a couple of big boys with too much time on their hands, or a frat to join.
Don’t preach liability to me/us, we’re all just speculating here since the article doesn’t give us the pertinant facts of the case. And you don’t know what I or anyone else does, nor what our knowledge level is.
You truly don’t know “the facts,” neither do any of us commenting. So don’t think your opinion holds more weight than any other. Relax and enjoy the fun.
What ignorance on this board – must be insurance brokers
So how is the power company liable for someone else removing their manhole cover? These things aren’t wired to a tracking center with some dispatcher able to say “Cover’s off at 4th and Main.” Give me a break.
This does seem to widen the “duty owed” philosophy historically part of proving negligence.
This is scary for any municipality; now they have to KNOW everything before it is even possible to know it.
Slippery slope for all negligence cases.
Why wasn’t he watching where he was walking?
Just think… knocked down from $85 million!!; very scary…lawyer used jury intelligence to his advantage…I bet the Med school card was played quite well.
I’m sure 250 pound steel discs get stolen all the time. Of course the power company is going to say someone else did it. Otherwise, they admit fault. Use your brain.
He is 30 and a medical student? Perhaps his fall might have saved a lot of other lives and countless med-mal settlements.I guess he wans’t top of his class.
As far as NOT seeing a missing manhole, it seems odd.