I love how the same school district that was suppose to keep this student safe claims that they did nothing wrong. I have always believed that fail in ones duty is doing something wrong.
Since the kid that threw the punch didn’t pay anything, I doubt the bully or any future would-be bullies learned a thing. This was about getting a payday from the school district aka the taxpayer.
Give it a break. The Insurance Companies have been spoon feeding the public this tripe of propaganda that their settlements cost the Taxpayers in the long run. They, the Insurance companies, have more money in reserve than our banks. They have, through our legal system of bribery, purchased our Politicians votes through Lobbyist and PAC Groups. Now its just a step away from getting the public to believe it is in the public’s best interest to cap non-economic payments. The Insurance Companies scream Lawsuit abuse and rising medical malpractice payments to damaged patients are the reason their insurance rates are rising. Lets look at some history here. When Ford Motors, with full knowledge of the deadly defects of its product, deliberately sold the Ford Pinto fire bomb to the public. Ford knew the probability of just how many people would be injured or maimed, and weighed the costs of a product recall versus the costs of paying the dead and maimed, and we all know the path they took. To cut to the chase, the Attorneys who took this case spent millions of dollars to replicate just how easy it was to turn the Pinto into a rolling crematorium. These tests where performed in a controlled laboratory environment, costing these Attorneys a fortune with no guarantee of reimbursement. Ford, on the other hand, had their Experts calculate the value of a human life at around $200,000, while a serious burn injury was worth about $67,000. Using an estimate of 180 deaths and 180 serious burns, someone put on paper that the cost to redesign and rework the Pinto’s gas tank would cost close to $137 million, while possible liability costs worked out to around $49 million. The threat of lawsuits is often the only way to deter corporations from intentionally hurting you and your family by knowingly marketing unsafe products and from trading public safety for corporate profits. Do not let the aberration of lawsuit abuse take away the painful reality of life. These Insurance companies, Major corporations, and the Schools we send our Children to equate all of our safety to dollars and cents. No Attorney will take on these behemoth companies if the return is capped, and don’t be naive to think these people have our safety concerns as paramount to profits.
I disagree. Would you be paralized for 4.2 million? I surely wouldn’t. It seems like a lot of money but he was young with hopefully a long life ahead of him.
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I love how the same school district that was suppose to keep this student safe claims that they did nothing wrong. I have always believed that fail in ones duty is doing something wrong.
Since the kid that threw the punch didn’t pay anything, I doubt the bully or any future would-be bullies learned a thing. This was about getting a payday from the school district aka the taxpayer.
from that comment your upset that the dog doesn’t have to pay a cent when he bites someone.
The if the school knew of the bully and didn’t protect the student then they should pay.
Give it a break. The Insurance Companies have been spoon feeding the public this tripe of propaganda that their settlements cost the Taxpayers in the long run. They, the Insurance companies, have more money in reserve than our banks. They have, through our legal system of bribery, purchased our Politicians votes through Lobbyist and PAC Groups. Now its just a step away from getting the public to believe it is in the public’s best interest to cap non-economic payments. The Insurance Companies scream Lawsuit abuse and rising medical malpractice payments to damaged patients are the reason their insurance rates are rising. Lets look at some history here. When Ford Motors, with full knowledge of the deadly defects of its product, deliberately sold the Ford Pinto fire bomb to the public. Ford knew the probability of just how many people would be injured or maimed, and weighed the costs of a product recall versus the costs of paying the dead and maimed, and we all know the path they took. To cut to the chase, the Attorneys who took this case spent millions of dollars to replicate just how easy it was to turn the Pinto into a rolling crematorium. These tests where performed in a controlled laboratory environment, costing these Attorneys a fortune with no guarantee of reimbursement. Ford, on the other hand, had their Experts calculate the value of a human life at around $200,000, while a serious burn injury was worth about $67,000. Using an estimate of 180 deaths and 180 serious burns, someone put on paper that the cost to redesign and rework the Pinto’s gas tank would cost close to $137 million, while possible liability costs worked out to around $49 million. The threat of lawsuits is often the only way to deter corporations from intentionally hurting you and your family by knowingly marketing unsafe products and from trading public safety for corporate profits. Do not let the aberration of lawsuit abuse take away the painful reality of life. These Insurance companies, Major corporations, and the Schools we send our Children to equate all of our safety to dollars and cents. No Attorney will take on these behemoth companies if the return is capped, and don’t be naive to think these people have our safety concerns as paramount to profits.
I disagree. Would you be paralized for 4.2 million? I surely wouldn’t. It seems like a lot of money but he was young with hopefully a long life ahead of him.