The story didn’t provide enough details on her injuries to pass any type of judgement on the size of the settlement. Doesn’t really matter if her potential career as a gymnast is over. She is obviously atheletic so there is a possibility that injured feet could impair her ability to jog, exercise, snow ski, etc when she is older. That’s worth some money. Hank, most of the articles we read in this publication regarding lawsuits/settlements are outrageous and ridiculous so I’ll just assume your lack of compassion on this one is due to the numerous absurdities we’ve all read about too many times.
Unfortunately, Hank’s opinion is shared by many on this site. This is why many times, insurance professionals do not get to serve on juries. It is attitudes exactly like this. I have been been reading stories on this site for over 5 years and have never one time, never heard a story about a lawsuit where comments weren’t made about how money grubbing the defendants are. It doesn’t matter if they were killed, maimed, etc by gross negligence or not.
Hank’s opinions are an unfortunate characteristic of an industry that freely accepts premiums and then will do anything not to pay claims.
yet, how many times have we read where the plaintiff is totally respsonsible and yet fails to realize and goes on a rampage to find anyone with pockets to get filled with $$$$? in today’s society of economic recession, folks will try to find someone else responsible no matter what. then there are few, like this where it was proper since they were not supposed to do it anyways… by the way, where is the word NO in our vocabulary? afterall the gymnist should have known better… how many times have they laid the floor down before? sometimes, we are dealing with a 14 yr old, yet we do require them to read, write and do homework for school.
SWFL,
I agree that the article doesn’t provide much information on the severity of the injury. You choose to look at it as if the accident might have “impaired her ability to jog.” Possibly. Could we also look at it as if the injury were merely a sprained ankle? Could a good lawyer could turn that into $650,000? Possibly. There are always two sides to every story.
surgery does not necessarily mean the end of one’s career in sports whether amateur or professional…. that would be my only concern… we can just speculate the you child might have a promising career, but then can we not state, he might be a new young einstein or astronaut? you’d have to prove to me that the kid’s money is for the surgery… if you want further money that his ability is better than the average player… i think that since they ask for only less than $1 mil, it’s reasonable to assume it’s not going to be a professional career we stubbed.
The title of the first Blog by Mikey was “Fair Settlement” and I assumed that’s what we’ve tried to comment on. There is no way to know what is or isn’t fair in this case. Could this person have foot issues later in life? Was the settlement for potential long term health issues? If by the age of 30 this person has an inordinate amount of pain when they ski or play tennis then $650k is not enough money. I don’t expect a 14 year old to exercise better judgement and expect them to refuse to follow the direction of their coach. They were asked to help, probably thought they could do it, and got hurt.
Hank, your first statement started, “Fair settlement my A$$!” when talking about a teenage girl whose feet were crushed. You don’t think that sounds like a jerk?
That comment was in reference to the settlement, and was in no way to reflect upon my opinion of the girl. I am going to repeat a statement from my second post. Please, take your time and read it slowly.
“$625,000 seems excessive. That is not to say, though, that she didn’t deserve some sort of compensation.”
To take more time to explain myself would be a waste of time. Especially to someone who, once again, chooses to attempt to insult me in such a cowardly fashion.
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The story didn’t provide enough details on her injuries to pass any type of judgement on the size of the settlement. Doesn’t really matter if her potential career as a gymnast is over. She is obviously atheletic so there is a possibility that injured feet could impair her ability to jog, exercise, snow ski, etc when she is older. That’s worth some money. Hank, most of the articles we read in this publication regarding lawsuits/settlements are outrageous and ridiculous so I’ll just assume your lack of compassion on this one is due to the numerous absurdities we’ve all read about too many times.
Unfortunately, Hank’s opinion is shared by many on this site. This is why many times, insurance professionals do not get to serve on juries. It is attitudes exactly like this. I have been been reading stories on this site for over 5 years and have never one time, never heard a story about a lawsuit where comments weren’t made about how money grubbing the defendants are. It doesn’t matter if they were killed, maimed, etc by gross negligence or not.
Hank’s opinions are an unfortunate characteristic of an industry that freely accepts premiums and then will do anything not to pay claims.
plaintifs that is.
yet, how many times have we read where the plaintiff is totally respsonsible and yet fails to realize and goes on a rampage to find anyone with pockets to get filled with $$$$? in today’s society of economic recession, folks will try to find someone else responsible no matter what. then there are few, like this where it was proper since they were not supposed to do it anyways… by the way, where is the word NO in our vocabulary? afterall the gymnist should have known better… how many times have they laid the floor down before? sometimes, we are dealing with a 14 yr old, yet we do require them to read, write and do homework for school.
SWFL,
I agree that the article doesn’t provide much information on the severity of the injury. You choose to look at it as if the accident might have “impaired her ability to jog.” Possibly. Could we also look at it as if the injury were merely a sprained ankle? Could a good lawyer could turn that into $650,000? Possibly. There are always two sides to every story.
From another article….
“Ritchie suffered a Lisfranc fracture-dislocation of the right foot requiring surgery”
surgery does not necessarily mean the end of one’s career in sports whether amateur or professional…. that would be my only concern… we can just speculate the you child might have a promising career, but then can we not state, he might be a new young einstein or astronaut? you’d have to prove to me that the kid’s money is for the surgery… if you want further money that his ability is better than the average player… i think that since they ask for only less than $1 mil, it’s reasonable to assume it’s not going to be a professional career we stubbed.
The title of the first Blog by Mikey was “Fair Settlement” and I assumed that’s what we’ve tried to comment on. There is no way to know what is or isn’t fair in this case. Could this person have foot issues later in life? Was the settlement for potential long term health issues? If by the age of 30 this person has an inordinate amount of pain when they ski or play tennis then $650k is not enough money. I don’t expect a 14 year old to exercise better judgement and expect them to refuse to follow the direction of their coach. They were asked to help, probably thought they could do it, and got hurt.
Hank, your first statement started, “Fair settlement my A$$!” when talking about a teenage girl whose feet were crushed. You don’t think that sounds like a jerk?
You really should be ashamed of yourself.
That comment was in reference to the settlement, and was in no way to reflect upon my opinion of the girl. I am going to repeat a statement from my second post. Please, take your time and read it slowly.
“$625,000 seems excessive. That is not to say, though, that she didn’t deserve some sort of compensation.”
To take more time to explain myself would be a waste of time. Especially to someone who, once again, chooses to attempt to insult me in such a cowardly fashion.