LOL the headline should be “Woman Sues After Tripping on Pot”. “According to court documents, she is suing for noneconomic damages caused by emotional distress after being laughed at by the flowers . . .”
This lady is nuts. This has to be some sort of joke. I wonder if there is going to be some “response time impairment” next time she needs the fire house to respond. These guys volunteer their time to run into burning buildings- she is going to sue because she tripped over her own two feet?
And for the “no text and drive” law crowd–
On my lunch break today I was driving on the freeway.
I passed a mini van.
The driver had reading glasses on the tip of his nose and a hardcover novel in his lap and was reading. We were going 70+ miles per hour the freeway.
Matt, I agree 100%. How ironic it could be…”Woman who sued the VOLUNTEER fire department loses everything as her home burns to the ground. The firefighters could not reach the scene in time, as they had just been sued for negligence and could no longer afford $4 a gallon gasoline…”
Best question we all forgot to ask, did she in fact play Bingo that night? Was she so upset that she didn’t win Bingo that she thought this might be the other big win??
Matt, that is horrible about the mini van driver reading & driving. To bad we can’t pull people over just for being STUPID and putting everyone else’s lives at risk.
well, if the paper says she is a regular at the hall for bingo, then i’d think the flower pot is as well. afterall, it is made out of concrete. it’s not like it was made just in a matter of minutes prior to her digruntled excuse to leave. it’s not like the pot grew legs and threw itself in the path of this lady. i hope that the court tosses this out and charges the lady and the lawyer for a frivilous lawsuit that bogged the courts for a real case.
Why level of moronic personal injury attorney doesn’t understand “open and obvious”, “Actual Knowledge”, “no liability”? And what level of moronic “judge” would allow a piece of crap suit like this to make it to court? Our legal system sucks.
What the attorney is wishing for is that the insurance company will settle it as a nuisance as the cost to defend will be more than the value of the claim.
I see it all of the time as an adjuster. The only way to stop this ******** is to start defending our insured’s regardless of the cost and upon winning such a frivilous case, then countersue the attorney and the claimant for all of the expenses and I mean sue. Put punitive damages on the attorney for an astronomical amount.
After several of these are won, then these ambulance chasing scum sucking bottom feeders will slink away!
But, now the problem, the insurance companies will not do this as they are thinking about their bottom line (the stockholders). Got to pay those dividends!
it also comes to the integrity of the insurance company, because if they payout, they woud normally have to raise rates because of this. but this is fraud, and this issue needs to be stopped at the front. the costs needs to go back to the lawyer and the claimant to pay for all costs including the defense fees including attorney fees. insurance companies are starting to realize, that they need to talk to the own consumer. i would not want my rates to go up just because you felt it better to resolve out of court.
i am waiting on hearing if the concrete flower pot is planning to countersue. then we have heard that the plants plan a countersuit as well.
or
i am sorry, my firetrucks could not make it to your house, there was a pothole along the way that ate up the firetruck.
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Flower Pot Tripping, Cow Tipping… what’s next?
LOL the headline should be “Woman Sues After Tripping on Pot”. “According to court documents, she is suing for noneconomic damages caused by emotional distress after being laughed at by the flowers . . .”
This lady is nuts. This has to be some sort of joke. I wonder if there is going to be some “response time impairment” next time she needs the fire house to respond. These guys volunteer their time to run into burning buildings- she is going to sue because she tripped over her own two feet?
And for the “no text and drive” law crowd–
On my lunch break today I was driving on the freeway.
I passed a mini van.
The driver had reading glasses on the tip of his nose and a hardcover novel in his lap and was reading. We were going 70+ miles per hour the freeway.
Matt, I agree 100%. How ironic it could be…”Woman who sued the VOLUNTEER fire department loses everything as her home burns to the ground. The firefighters could not reach the scene in time, as they had just been sued for negligence and could no longer afford $4 a gallon gasoline…”
Best question we all forgot to ask, did she in fact play Bingo that night? Was she so upset that she didn’t win Bingo that she thought this might be the other big win??
Matt, that is horrible about the mini van driver reading & driving. To bad we can’t pull people over just for being STUPID and putting everyone else’s lives at risk.
I think you are getting your drugs mixed up – or maybe not.
well, if the paper says she is a regular at the hall for bingo, then i’d think the flower pot is as well. afterall, it is made out of concrete. it’s not like it was made just in a matter of minutes prior to her digruntled excuse to leave. it’s not like the pot grew legs and threw itself in the path of this lady. i hope that the court tosses this out and charges the lady and the lawyer for a frivilous lawsuit that bogged the courts for a real case.
Why level of moronic personal injury attorney doesn’t understand “open and obvious”, “Actual Knowledge”, “no liability”? And what level of moronic “judge” would allow a piece of crap suit like this to make it to court? Our legal system sucks.
What the attorney is wishing for is that the insurance company will settle it as a nuisance as the cost to defend will be more than the value of the claim.
I see it all of the time as an adjuster. The only way to stop this ******** is to start defending our insured’s regardless of the cost and upon winning such a frivilous case, then countersue the attorney and the claimant for all of the expenses and I mean sue. Put punitive damages on the attorney for an astronomical amount.
After several of these are won, then these ambulance chasing scum sucking bottom feeders will slink away!
But, now the problem, the insurance companies will not do this as they are thinking about their bottom line (the stockholders). Got to pay those dividends!
it also comes to the integrity of the insurance company, because if they payout, they woud normally have to raise rates because of this. but this is fraud, and this issue needs to be stopped at the front. the costs needs to go back to the lawyer and the claimant to pay for all costs including the defense fees including attorney fees. insurance companies are starting to realize, that they need to talk to the own consumer. i would not want my rates to go up just because you felt it better to resolve out of court.
i am waiting on hearing if the concrete flower pot is planning to countersue. then we have heard that the plants plan a countersuit as well.
or
i am sorry, my firetrucks could not make it to your house, there was a pothole along the way that ate up the firetruck.