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PeaceNikki

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10. I assume you're a practicing attorney in Connecticut?

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Wed Oct 14, 2015, 05:49 PM

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Aunt who sued her 12-year-old nephew says insurance rules forced her hand [View all] jberryhill Oct 2015 OP

Did they force her to complain in court about not being able to "hold the h'ors douevres plate?" Warren DeMontague Oct 2015 #1

Do you think her injury is limited to hors d'oevres plates? jberryhill Oct 2015 #6

Regarding your 4th question, Yes. Hoppy Oct 2015 #17

Lemme give you an example of this jberryhill Oct 2015 #8

none of it is all that interesting. Warren DeMontague Oct 2015 #29

IMO maybe she should have been prepped better by her atty. LiberalElite Oct 2015 #31

Even liberals fall victim to the "frivolous out of control lawsuits" meme. Hassin Bin Sober Oct 2015 #2

Amen. PeaceNikki Oct 2015 #3

+1 demmiblue Oct 2015 #5

+ another 1 nt riderinthestorm Oct 2015 #13

No, the McDonalds coffee thing was totally different. Skin Grafts, 200 degree coffee & crotch burns Warren DeMontague Oct 2015 #30

The analogy is that the media decides the meme riderinthestorm Oct 2015 #32

So this case is about multiple surgeries, scars, pain and permanent consequences. Hassin Bin Sober Oct 2015 #33

So you do want to blame the 8 year old. Own it. Warren DeMontague Oct 2015 #34

Read your homeowners policy. Goblinmonger Oct 2015 #36

It would appear that no matter what any of us here think, it took about 25 minutes for a jury to Warren DeMontague Oct 2015 #37

No, the jury threw it back to her health insurance to pay up riderinthestorm Oct 2015 #39

You still aren't getting it jberryhill Oct 2015 #43

^ This. area51 Oct 2015 #54

Ah. Well, then, I guess everybody wins. Warren DeMontague Oct 2015 #55

Right, but health insurance companies are hunting for denials if there is other insurance jberryhill Oct 2015 #60

Fair enough. I was wrong. Warren DeMontague Oct 2015 #62

No worries - it's insidious what they do with these stories jberryhill Oct 2015 #63

The jury determined the nephew was not negligent. Ms. Toad Oct 2015 #47

Oh for fuck's sake. You are usually more level headed than this. Hassin Bin Sober Oct 2015 #40

He's eight, or he was, that's the point. Warren DeMontague Oct 2015 #57

I love all the posts defending insurance companies abelenkpe Oct 2015 #4

I certainly don't defend the insurance companies in this jberryhill Oct 2015 #7

Yeah sorry abelenkpe Oct 2015 #16

The people defending the insurance companies are the people saying she..... Hassin Bin Sober Oct 2015 #25

That's what's so crazy abelenkpe Oct 2015 #41

The necessity is driven by lack of a sane health care system jberryhill Oct 2015 #42

That does seem like a better solution. Nt abelenkpe Oct 2015 #49

It is the solution obscured by the way these cases are reported jberryhill Oct 2015 #51

Finally something you said I agree with. former9thward Oct 2015 #53

It's up to the insurance company Ichigo Kurosaki Oct 2015 #9

I assume you're a practicing attorney in Connecticut? PeaceNikki Oct 2015 #10

That is simply not correct jberryhill Oct 2015 #11

Many years ago I got a fax by mistake. Snobblevitch Oct 2015 #12

So she wanted her own homeowners insurance company to cover an accident at another home? muriel_volestrangler Oct 2015 #14

No jberryhill Oct 2015 #20

Your OP: " it was the only way to get her homeowners insurance policy to pay" muriel_volestrangler Oct 2015 #22

Jesus jberryhill Oct 2015 #23

There are previous threads, which have to assume there were multiple insurance companies involved muriel_volestrangler Oct 2015 #24

"It's not just the health coverage that's bad, it's the legal system" jberryhill Oct 2015 #69

"because it was the only way pugetres Oct 2015 #15

That is an error in the article jberryhill Oct 2015 #21

Okay, same diff. Warren DeMontague Oct 2015 #35

Health insurance does not pay if primary insurance is elsewhere jberryhill Oct 2015 #38

You're right. Most people don't really... Whiskeytide Oct 2015 #45

Meanwhile... jberryhill Oct 2015 #48

No, I get it. Warren DeMontague Oct 2015 #58

I believe it. A friend of mine had an almost identical experience. closeupready Oct 2015 #18

my mom & us were on welfare(Aid to Dependant Children & Families) in the early 70s irisblue Oct 2015 #50

Really? It was the kind of film that, while on the surface a romantic comedy-drama, closeupready Oct 2015 #61

Thank you for a level-headed response. Atman Oct 2015 #19

My husband was once involved Texasgal Oct 2015 #26

Yep jberryhill Oct 2015 #27

Or maybe not kcr Oct 2015 #28

meh peapodsss Oct 2015 #44

You have tens of thousands on hand for orthopedic surgery? jberryhill Oct 2015 #46

I still don't understand. The accident occurred at the nephew's house. pnwmom Oct 2015 #52

It is an error in the article jberryhill Oct 2015 #59

Pronouns matter, as any lawyer knows. That pronoun mistake changed pnwmom Oct 2015 #67

I don't change what someone else wrote jberryhill Oct 2015 #68

You didn't understand it five years ago, either jberryhill Oct 2015 #64

No, that error was specific to this article and has nothing to do with the old case. n't pnwmom Oct 2015 #65

Okay, but jberryhill Oct 2015 #66

Sad but true alexeus Oct 2015 #56