Slightly worse… she was led away (presumably by a nurse or, as was the case in my family, a security officer) to calm her down, and it was at that point that her son went into the room and realised it wasn’t his father.
You know, I just realised that I probably shouldn’t be participating in this thread, as I’m extremely biased and would happily pay the lawyer’s fees for this family if it meant a possibility of Caritas acknowledging that they’re staffed primarily by a bunch of fuckups who couldn’t give a shit about patients or families.
Maybe she was so distraught when she found out her husband was still alive and she didn’t really have the life insurance money to move to Bermuda with her boyfriend that she had heart palpitations. I think someone should pay for that.
Possibly not – at my hospital we get the corpse looking presentable for the family to come in and say goodbye before we bag 'em and take 'em to the mortuary. At no point do they get covered by a sheet.
Obviously, the evil Caritas Hospital staff need to be punished…so lets calculate what might be appropriate:
-for mis-identifying the corpse (as the woman’s husband): $500,000
-for failing to offer the woman counseling (when she learned of the mistake):$1.5 million
-for failing to cover the mis-identified corpse: $500,000
There…that should cover this! Anybody have a better idea? With $1.5million, she can affod to retire to Bermuda!
I notice, Ralph, that you don’t have the guts or the integrity to either support or retract your assertion that the lawyers on the SDMB “insist that ‘frivolous’ lawsuits don’t exist.”
Well, if there are so many, and if you are as aware of them as you would have us believe, then surely you can point me to one single instance where any SDMB lawyer has said that “frivolous lawsuits don’t exist.”
Once mhendo’s done donkeypunching you, would you mind pointing out where the fuck it says in the nonexistant article you didn’t link that the woman’s actually filed a lawsuit?
What? Not Sue? Are you unxxxxxx or something. Congratulations!
You are not like the woman who claimed she didn’t know the coffee was hot.
Why of course. Tort lawyers don’t bring frivolous suits, they are dead serious…about collecting the 50% contingencey. What else?
Spingears- you know- if you bring up the “mcDonalds/Hot coffee” lawsuit as 'frivolous", you need to do a little research 1st. http://lawandhelp.com/q298-2.htm
The “Mc Donalds Hot coffee lawsuit” is a perfect example of a suit that sounds frivolous on the surface, but isn’t after some digging.
ralph124c- “when get judgement, come back”
:rolleyes:
Still waiting for a cite on that. I’ve noticed that you have posted several times since your OP, but have not included a link to a single instance of anyone saying that, despite being asked several times.
> Maybe she was so distraught when she found out her husband was still alive
> and she didn’t really have the life insurance money to move to Bermuda with
> her boyfriend that she had heart palpitations.
Yes, like most blind 78-year-old women, she doubtlessly has a hunky young boyfriend who wants to run away with her to Bermuda.
Obviously there are more people who have spilled coffee on themselves than the 700 Mcratburger settled, but still 700 in 10 Billion (that’s 10 Billion in case you missed it over the span of a decade) cups of coffee? Obviously, most people realize that hot coffee is HOT and not dump it in their lap! Should someone be compensated because they are a klutz and spill things on themselves, or did some employee dump the HOT coffee on the old lady (Could the fact that she was an old lady have factored into the decision?)? Also, maybe one of the reasons that McDonalds sells 10 Billion cups of coffee in a year is because it is HOT and will stay that way longer than the competition? Dunno, I don’t drink coffee, but if I did I’d try not to spray myself with it.
McDonalds should put up a sign above their coffee pot, “Our coffee is hot, please do not bath in it”.
Sorry, you’re link doesn’t change the fact that this was a goofy decision, IMNSHO.
I would second that–although we do place a sheet, half-folded over the toes up to mid-waist. Never is the face covered.
I can almost wrap my head around the woman having nightmares–but why would the man? He is not dead, afterall. I can understand him being upset that his wife had a scare, but why nightmares for him? Are these people into drama? Are they excitable? I don’t get it. If I had been told that someone else (dead) was mistaken for me–I’d be tempted to quote Samuel Clemens, but that’s just me.
IMO, none of this should end up in court. If she pursues it, the hospital will most likely settle out of court. I don’t think this warrants even a settlement–an apology, most definetly, but not a cash settlement…
I’ve noticed in the past that ralph is often rather uninterested in any long-term participation in the threads he starts, especially when anyone points out any of his errors or inconsistencies.
