The settlement amount is outrageous for the death of a 3 year old child, particularly when the circumstances arent aggregious. The fact that the mother died had to have had some impact on this mis-guided evaluation.
Is it just getting worse, or am I reading more of these assinine verdicts lately? Why is a three year old worth that much? Some kind of prodigy? I sure hope IJ reports on the verdict reduction.
well, i can understand a major settlement. is 13.5 million enough or is the lawyers getting rich. life is too precious and the cost of the medical bills were probably extensive. but at age 3, you forget what would she have been at age 18 (graduating from high school). what about at age 26? possibly married and few years later having kids. all that is put in perspective as far as the amount. is it excessive? hard to imagine. mom’s death had no contribution to the death or their daughter.
so, where do we put a price on a life, especially at a young age w/so much that could have given to the society?
I understand your feelings, wudchuck, but woulda, coulda shouldn’t really enter into the equasion of what would be over the next 15 to 23 years. Too much can happen in that time.
I sure have insured a lot of restaurant franchisees with named insureds structured like “E&B Management Co. of Waukesha”. Scary verdict as the franchisors typically require $5,000,000 umbrella limits.
wudchuck I think we have to value a young life that has yet to show what kind of potential they have less than somebody with projectable future earnings potential. Every child could become Warren Buffet, but most won’t. In this case I think the amount is extreme and they collected from the wrong people. Had the restaurant properly handled their food the e. coli would never have tainted the melon.
i agreed. life is precious and there is no way to put a price on it. now, i would love to be the genius that Warren is, but, i know we are all different.
you said, that there is no way that melon could have been tainted like that? how so? i would have presumed they had experts testify to such.
Had the restaurant handled their food properly it would have been impossible for the meat to taint the melon because the two would have never come in contact. The only way for the melon to become tainted with the strain of e. coli infecting the meat was for uncooked meat to touch (and more than touch when you look at it realistically) the melon. Proper food handling would have prevented this whole thing.
I don’t agree with the meat producer having liability. As long as they follow federal guidelines for testing and do not release meat that tests bad I think they should be protected. I also think the FDA and USDA need to mandate 100% testing of all meats, but that’s not what they currently mandate.
What’s the basis for your determination that the amounts was excessive? Have you evaluated the same information that the huyr looked at? Have you done anything other than give in to a knee-jerk emotional reaction?
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B.S. settlement is more like it. Even on a good day, this kid wouldn’t be worth $2M.
The settlement amount is outrageous for the death of a 3 year old child, particularly when the circumstances arent aggregious. The fact that the mother died had to have had some impact on this mis-guided evaluation.
Is it just getting worse, or am I reading more of these assinine verdicts lately? Why is a three year old worth that much? Some kind of prodigy? I sure hope IJ reports on the verdict reduction.
well, i can understand a major settlement. is 13.5 million enough or is the lawyers getting rich. life is too precious and the cost of the medical bills were probably extensive. but at age 3, you forget what would she have been at age 18 (graduating from high school). what about at age 26? possibly married and few years later having kids. all that is put in perspective as far as the amount. is it excessive? hard to imagine. mom’s death had no contribution to the death or their daughter.
so, where do we put a price on a life, especially at a young age w/so much that could have given to the society?
I understand your feelings, wudchuck, but woulda, coulda shouldn’t really enter into the equasion of what would be over the next 15 to 23 years. Too much can happen in that time.
A sad story, for sure.
I sure have insured a lot of restaurant franchisees with named insureds structured like “E&B Management Co. of Waukesha”. Scary verdict as the franchisors typically require $5,000,000 umbrella limits.
wudchuck I think we have to value a young life that has yet to show what kind of potential they have less than somebody with projectable future earnings potential. Every child could become Warren Buffet, but most won’t. In this case I think the amount is extreme and they collected from the wrong people. Had the restaurant properly handled their food the e. coli would never have tainted the melon.
i agreed. life is precious and there is no way to put a price on it. now, i would love to be the genius that Warren is, but, i know we are all different.
you said, that there is no way that melon could have been tainted like that? how so? i would have presumed they had experts testify to such.
Had the restaurant handled their food properly it would have been impossible for the meat to taint the melon because the two would have never come in contact. The only way for the melon to become tainted with the strain of e. coli infecting the meat was for uncooked meat to touch (and more than touch when you look at it realistically) the melon. Proper food handling would have prevented this whole thing.
I don’t agree with the meat producer having liability. As long as they follow federal guidelines for testing and do not release meat that tests bad I think they should be protected. I also think the FDA and USDA need to mandate 100% testing of all meats, but that’s not what they currently mandate.
What’s the basis for your determination that the amounts was excessive? Have you evaluated the same information that the huyr looked at? Have you done anything other than give in to a knee-jerk emotional reaction?