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In reply to the discussion: Aunt who sued her 12-year-old nephew says insurance rules forced her hand [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)8 year olds are kind of reckless by definition.
I learned real early on not to bend over and kiss my kids on the tops of their heads- I learned this with the first one, actually- because inevitably, if I did so, my well-intentioned display of affection would be met with a perfectly timed jump, driving the hardest part of kid cranium right up and into the softest part of my nose.
Not the sort of mistake you want to make repeatedly.
Look, I don't pretend to understand the insurance industry or its weird relationship with Connecticut law. And this is hardly the DU hill I want to die on. But whatever was behind the Kabuki theater that this thing apparently was, I think it's safe to say that the kid was probably the least at fault. It sure doesn't sound like he was being malicious.