Great Moments In Justice
It's been a while since I posted any tort pr0n, so here are a couple of juicy onces:
Joe Meadows was drunk. Very drunk. 0.296 percent blood-alcohol content
drunk, 12 or 13 beers worth. Fortunately, he didn't drive in that
state. Unfortunately, he chose to sleep it off by resting under a
parked 18-wheel truck. More unfortunately, the driver, Doug Rader, who
didn't check to see whether there might be drunks lying under his truck
at 1:40 a.m., ran over Meadows. Rader had EMT training, and was able to
save Meadows's life, but Meadows lost a leg, and sued both the truck
company and the store that owned the parking lot. A Kanawha County jury
decided that Meadows was only a third responsible for his injury, which
means he "only" gets two thirds of the three million dollars they
awarded.
"A police officer has sued the family of a 1-year-old boy who nearly
drowned because she slipped and injured a knee responding to their
9-1-1 rescue call." Andrea Eichhorn, a police sergeant in Casselberry,
Florida, responded to the pool accident, and now "claims the boy's
family left a puddle of water on the floor, causing her fall during the
rescue efforts. She broke her knee and missed two months of work." So
she's suing the Cosmillo family. "It's a situation where the Cosmillos
have caused these problems, brought them on themselves, then tried to
play the victim," says her attorney, David Heil. Joey Cosmillo, the
infant in question, suffered severe brain damage and lives in a nursing
home now.
West Virginia and Florida -- who'd have thought it?
Matt Simon:
I wish I were a judge in this case so I could throw it out. Ms. Eichwhorn is truly an embarrassment to police officers everywhere.
October 11, 2007, 1:15 pmfiona:
After what I imagine was considerable ribbing by fellow officers and vast public outcry, she has withdrawn her suit. By the way, the water on the floor was left there from carrying the baby into the house to continue life saving efforts.
October 13, 2007, 3:32 pmfiona:
After what I imagine was considerable ribbing by fellow officers and vast public outcry, she has withdrawn her suit. By the way, the water on the floor was left there from carrying the baby into the house to continue life saving efforts.
October 13, 2007, 3:32 pm