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This really makes you think twice about helping some one , do you risk every thing you own and your livelihood to help out a person that turns out to be a sue happy jerk looking for an easy opportunity . What isnt on this article is that the woman said on Fox News that she was already paralyzed before being removed . What an ungrateful )*^#
Woman Sued for Rescue Effort in Car Crash
Legal Experts Say California Ruling Could Make Good Samaritans HesitateNo good deed goes unpunished, or so goes the saying.
A paralyzed woman is suing a former co-worker for moving her from a car accidentSuch was the case with Lisa Torti, who is being sued for pulling a now-paralyzed friend from the wreckage of a Los Angeles car accident in 2004.
The victim’s lawyers claim the Good Samaritan bumbled the rescue and caused injury by yanking her friend “like a rag doll” to safety.
But Torti — now a 30-year-old interior designer from Las Vegas — said she thought she had seen smoke and feared the car would explode. She claims she was only trying to help her friend, Alexandra Van Horn, and her own life has been adversely affected by the incident.
“I know [Van Horn] has a lot of financial issues and her life has changed,” she said. “But it’s not my fault. I can’t be angry at her, only the path she has chosen to take. I can only pray it helps her.”
“I don’t have any more fight left,” Torti told ABCNews.com, choking back tears. “It’s really emotional.”
The California Supreme Court ruled this week that Van Horn may sue Torti for allegedly causing her friend’s paralysis. The case — the first of its kind — challenges the state’s liability shield law that protects people who give emergency assistance.
Only Medical Workers Immune
The court ruled 4-3 that only those administering medical care have legal immunity, but not those like Torti, who merely take rescue action. The justices said that the perceived danger to Van Horn in the wrecked car was not “medical.”
The court majority said the 1980 Emergency Medical Service Act, which Torti’s lawyers cited for protection, was intended only to encourage people to learn first aid and use it in emergencies, not to give Good Samaritans blanket immunity when they act negligently.
Van Horn’s lawsuit will go on to trial court to determine if Torti is to blame for Van Horn’s paralysis.
But some legal experts say the ruling may discourage people from trying to save lives.
“What they are saying is that if you pull someone out of a pool, if you provide CPR, you do have a defense,” said Torti’s lawyer, Jody Steinberg.
“It seems to defy logic,” he said. “At a certain point anyone who instructs or educates [in emergencies] will advise that you must hesitate. Those split-second decisions will be gone and someone could die.”
glad you had a great time and got to see all those great places and meet Wyland of course , rest up Xmas is only 4 days away
i used to get 3% of my yearly gross as a bonus from CAT , along with a 20 dollar Giant Food card. We also got a CAT pen with our names on it , and a box of Wakenfuss chocolates from the owner of the Maryland shop i was at .
When my old department boss was there we would have a departmental Xmas party …every one dreaded getting the secrete Santa from me , i always shopped at the adult toy store 😀 . Poor Trish i got her every year but one 😈
siberakh1 wrote:Dragon Master wrote:I’m not sure what the connection is???
You can look around online, but essentially, Lincoln didn’t believe in equality of the races. A lot of what Lincoln said and believed in is left out in school history classes. If he could have preserved the Union without freeing them, he would have. Since he couldn’t do that, one worry he had was what to do with the slaves after the war. He wanted to colonize them or segregate them. He didn’t believe in whites and blacks living together. He didn’t want them raising arms up against their former masters (who would essentially be disarmed because of defeat from the war), with the real risk of a race war. One of his generals, Benjamin Butler, suggested to Lincoln, “Why not send them to Panama to dig the canal?” Lincoln loved the idea and asked Butler to consult with William Seward (Lincoln’s Secretary of State, and the same man known for ‘Seward’s Folly’ with the purchase of Alaska from Russia) at once. Lincoln was killed shortly thereafter.
woot another Civil War nut like myself 🙂 . gotta love how sickenly PC this country is .
I ran into a Lincoln in Gettysburg a few summers ago while i was doing medical demonstrations at the American wax museum . i asked him the same question , and i dont know if he was trying to protect the image of Abe or if he was just ignorant to who he was portraying, the answer i got was .. ” i hear its hot and full of bugs” 😆 . i know some reenactors are sinnical but i just down know about this one
Dragon Master wrote:I typed an answer but I guess i forgot to hit submit
I think it was Civil right leaders
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Rosa Parks
and the 3rd was Abe Lincolnheehee Ol’ Abe . I don’t know if you have civil war reenactments out in Ca but if you do go to one , and just for S&G’s ask some one portraying him “what about Panama” if he looks at you goofy he doesn’t know history and shouldn’t be playing the role
Melody wrote:foxfeather wrote:Okay, a request for assistance! I am Stage Managing a production of ‘The Three Musketeers’ and it was put out to the cast to think of unusual things to use as off hand weapons. and since there are soo many people who are lucky and do or get to go to renfaires I thought I’d ask here too. 😀
A big rubber fish would be great! Weasels are too small.
thats what i was going to say 😀 . My WoW rouge carries a grouper in his off hand.
Like Emerald said a chicken ,There is also a new annoying rubber chicken that screams when you squeeze him
http://accentannex.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=870¤cy=USDhere is what it does
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfnVN-mQZjU&feature=relatedi would go with
Cleopatra – i need to see what all those Romans fought over her for
Anton Szandor LaVey – for obvious reasons
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus( Caligula ) – want to see if he try went crazy because of an illness of if was always a nasty tyrant . Because of his messed up childhood that NO ONE could ever touch in a million years id say he was really messed up in the head to begin with
pegasi1978 wrote:Just so everyone knows Microsoft has a patch out now to “fix” the issue.
im still not going back , i have been a loyal FireFox person for about 5 years now and have never looked back
travistie wrote:Necron is such a positive person! 😆
i am the apidomy of good cheer , who doesn’t get a gleam in their eye seeing all the zombies i post 😀
