That’s the Amercian way…..someone makes a mistake……make ’em pay. Here you have two old women arriving at the funeral home within hours of each other. Probably looked pretty similar too. Someone mistakes one for the other and presto……the families are going to Disneyworld. All they had to do to remedy the error was to swithch heads.
Was there more to this story than is printed here? How do you get to punitive damages of that amount when everyone admits they “mistakenly” switched the identifications?
Had they switched it with someone that had been in the funeral home for days rather than two roommates in a nursing home dying within hours of each other I could probably swallow this a lot easier. Unless the employess were highly intoxicated I’m not getting how they should be punished to the tune of 500K for a mistake of this kind.
In reading further material I learned this mistake was caught and corrected prior to the Eubanks family even attending the viewing of their family member, yet they profited as well. What are the compensable damages here? These are obviously two elderly women that died of natural causes.
Just another example of a non-thinking run away jury.
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Don’t know how old these ladies were, but I’m pretty sure the survivor’s sure disappeared in a puff of $$.
That’s the Amercian way…..someone makes a mistake……make ’em pay. Here you have two old women arriving at the funeral home within hours of each other. Probably looked pretty similar too. Someone mistakes one for the other and presto……the families are going to Disneyworld. All they had to do to remedy the error was to swithch heads.
Was there more to this story than is printed here? How do you get to punitive damages of that amount when everyone admits they “mistakenly” switched the identifications?
Had they switched it with someone that had been in the funeral home for days rather than two roommates in a nursing home dying within hours of each other I could probably swallow this a lot easier. Unless the employess were highly intoxicated I’m not getting how they should be punished to the tune of 500K for a mistake of this kind.
In reading further material I learned this mistake was caught and corrected prior to the Eubanks family even attending the viewing of their family member, yet they profited as well. What are the compensable damages here? These are obviously two elderly women that died of natural causes.
Just another example of a non-thinking run away jury.