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Hoppy

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17. Regarding your 4th question, Yes.

Wed Oct 14, 2015, 07:14 PM

Oct 2015

Reporters do hang around court houses. As a corollary, the cases on Judge Judy and so forth, come from staff who hang around court houses and question people who are filing claims.

My boss was interviewed by one of those people.

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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