A federal judge has declined to dismiss a lawsuit by an Illinois woman who “is suing her Wisconsin parents for maintaining an icy driveway that she blames for a fall that broke her ankle two winters ago…. Carriel Louah, 25, visited Darlington, Wis., to surprise her mother on her birthday in January 2005. But the next morning, she was injured when she slipped and fell on her parents’ driveway. …The daughter said that a letter from her mom apologizing months after the fall proves that her parents knew they had a defective gutter for years and did nothing about it.” (“Judge OKs Trial After Daughter’s Surprise Visit Home Ends In Lawsuit”, Channel3000.com, Jul. 13).
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A federal judge has declined to dismiss a lawsuit by an Illinois woman who “is suing her Wisconsin parents for maintaining an icy driveway that she blames for a fall that broke her ankle two winters ago…. Carriel Louah, 25, visited Darlington, Wis., to surprise her mother on her birthday in January 2005. But the […]
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Do be so quick to ridicule.
It may take such a lawsuit for her parents to get their insurance to pay for their daughter’s medical bills.
But why would their insurance have to pay for their daughter’s bills? She’s 25 years old, for crying out loud, certainly old enough and responsible enough to realize that she was walking on ice. If her older, and most likely more physically fragile, parents could navigate the driveway safely, there’s no reason to assume that this lady could not safely perform the same task.
Did the daughter have any medical insurance at the time? She may well be one of those twenty some things going bare thinking themselves invincible. The deep pockets must be mom and dad’s homeowners insurance.
traditional outcome: the mom will appoligize in court for not fixing the driveway and then mom & daughter get to go shopping together
Pay her bill and judgement, they will their estate to Overlawyered.
Actually, the parents are paying for a homeowners insurance policy that probably covers this situation. If that IS the case, and the insurance company hasn’t paid, then this is a legitimate suit.
Now, I didn’t read the article, so I don’t know if the damages being asked are reasonable or other such details, but the basic caus of the case MAY be reasonable (oddly enough).
She better hope that she gets a large award from the lawsuit because she just blew her inheritance.
I would be willing to bet her attorney told her: “We aren’t really suing your parents; we’re actually just suing the insurance company.”
Wait till Mom & Dad have to give a deposition and Daughter sees how her attorney makes them out to be the bad guys.