Comments on: “12 year old babysitter saves kids and pet in fire, gets sued.”

By: bystander

bystander — Tue, 11 May 2010 04:31:41 +0000

On a tangent, you’ll love the number of people in the Free Range Kids comment thread who are saying that we don’t live in a litigious society because the McDonalds coffee lawsuit was TOTALLY LEGIT.

By: Bob Lipton

Bob Lipton — Mon, 10 May 2010 21:49:00 +0000

Well, it was clearly the plan to sue the kid and then make up what she couldn’t cough up from the parents.

Bob

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 10 May 2010 20:28:37 +0000

I also wondered how the kids had access to the lighter. I would think the parents had much greater culpability in leaving the lighter around than the babysitter would have.

By: Aaron Worthing

Aaron Worthing — Mon, 10 May 2010 15:15:57 +0000

Well, the theory i suspect was that she was not good enough in watching the kids to prevent the fire in the first place.

But gee, assumption of risk seems like the parry to that. Unless she lied to them about her qualifications they should have known just how bad she might have been.

And, btw, how is it that those kids had access to a lighter? how come the parents aren’t responsible for that?

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 10 May 2010 15:12:03 +0000

Sounds like a subrogation suit initiated by the insurance company.

By: Bob Lipton

Bob Lipton — Sun, 09 May 2010 22:50:53 +0000

Ah, well, that makes eveyrthing hunky-dory.

Bob

By: Jerry Vandesic

Jerry Vandesic — Sun, 09 May 2010 19:58:30 +0000

According to this article, the suit against the babysitter was dropped:

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=3002962