Comments on: Hey mom, got a surprise for you https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/07/hey-mom-got-a-surprise-for-you/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:31:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: John https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/07/hey-mom-got-a-surprise-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-3505 Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:31:30 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3718#comment-3505 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.

]]> By: Richard Nieporent https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/07/hey-mom-got-a-surprise-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-3504 Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:47:37 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3718#comment-3504 She better hope that she gets a large award from the lawsuit because she just blew her inheritance.

]]> By: Deoxy https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/07/hey-mom-got-a-surprise-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-3503 Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:07:04 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3718#comment-3503 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).

]]> By: Walter E. Wallis https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/07/hey-mom-got-a-surprise-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-3502 Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:03:54 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3718#comment-3502 Pay her bill and judgement, they will their estate to Overlawyered.

]]> By: robertH https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/07/hey-mom-got-a-surprise-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-3501 Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:18:42 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3718#comment-3501 traditional outcome: the mom will appoligize in court for not fixing the driveway and then mom & daughter get to go shopping together

]]> By: Charlie B https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/07/hey-mom-got-a-surprise-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-3500 Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:42:16 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3718#comment-3500 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.

]]> By: James https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/07/hey-mom-got-a-surprise-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-3499 Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:14:01 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3718#comment-3499 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.

]]> By: Terrablogger https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/07/hey-mom-got-a-surprise-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-3498 Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:26:49 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3718#comment-3498 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.

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