Woman sues over her rescue

KRON 4 ^ | August 10, 2005

[beaversmom]

NEW LONDON, Conn. A woman is suing the town whose police divers saved her from drowning. Barbara Connors is suing the town of Old Saybrook, Connecticut, saying she was rescued too late to prevent serious brain damage.

The Massachusetts woman was in her son-in-law's sport utility vehicle when it jumped a curb, went through a chain-link fence and plunged into the Connecticut River.

Connors was unconscious and in cardiac arrest when divers pulled her from the water.

The son-in-law escaped the sinking vehicle and was picked up by the crew of a passing boat. Connors is also suing him.

Among other things, the suit claims the town failed to provide appropriate guardrails and equipment needed by police divers.

It says the 75-year-old woman has brain damage and must be cared for in a nursing home for the rest of her life.

[clee1]

...she was rescued too late to prevent serious brain damage.

Brain damage... that's the problem.

Throw her worthless assets back in.

[Shaun_MD]

Reminds me of something my grandfather use to say.
She'd bitch if she was hung with a new rope.

[Mongeaux]

I hate yuppies. You move to the country to get away from the city and then expect all the services that the city provides, along with the huge tax burden that goes along with it.

[trussell]

This type of lawsuit should be illegal! She was (undoubtedly) saved in as timely a manner as possible...this country is getting sue happy!

[Howlin]

Well, she obviously has enough of a brain left to figure out she can sue everybody, right?

Oh wait...

[Textide]

son-in-law's sport utility vehicle when it jumped a curb

Another crazy, runaway SUV tragedy. Surprised its maker isn't being sued, seeing as she's suing everyone else.

[Right Brother]

Uh....the brain-damaged woman is suing? Or is it her family? (who probably suffer brain damage as well)

[kenth]

She's not suing the SUV maker? She does have brain damage.

[BykrBayb]

Shouldn't she sue the SUV? It was clearly at fault.

[scott says]

So...the moron screwed up and is suing everybody because they didn't save her fast enough? I better not say what I really want to , or I will be permanently banned.
sidebar...grew up 10 minutes from Old Saybrook, in a much better, classier town.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

No doubt she wishes she could trade places with Mary Joe Kopechne....

What an ungrateful WRETCH!

[Humidston]

Can this country get any sillier? I doubt it!

[Ronin]

I smell a sharp sticky lawyer here.

The woman is 75 years old AND brain damaged?

I seriously doubt this lawsuit is her idea.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

The son-in-law, Ted Kennedy, escaped the sinking vehicle and was picked up by the crew of a passing boat belonging to John Forbes Kerry....

[ChristianDefender]

this country is getting sue happy!

Yeah, it seems that suing is becoming a trend recently.

What about suing her back? ahhh just sew her mouth!

[skinkinthegrass]

No doubt she wishes she could trade places with Mary Joe Kopechne....Touche. :D

[fatima]

Who is John Forbes Kerry?Kerry's father.

[isom35]

how does she know she has brain damage?

[Smokin' Joe]

Ahhhhh Life. Another dissatisfied customer....

[carumba]

Many states have good Samaritan laws to shield would be rescuers from such frivolity.

[Thinkin' Gal]

The Massachusetts woman was in her son-in-law's sport utility vehicle when it jumped a curb, went through a chain-link fence and plunged into the Connecticut River.

That was no accident, lady. Now the rest of us understand why he did it.

[Jaysun]

Give the trollop a lobotomy, take her license away, and send the rescuers a fruit and sausage basket. Bada-bing, bada-boom.

[SIDENET]

That was no accident, lady. Now the rest of us understand why he did it.

LOL!

[conshack]

Brain damage... that's the problem.

Nope. It's the SUV's fault. It's amazing what these gas guzzlers that the dims want banned can do. There was likely brain damage on the driver's behalf before the accident.

[conshack]

LMAO.

[Jimmy Valentine]

"That was no accident, lady. Now the rest of us understand why he did it"

Insert additional mother-in-law jokes here!

Regards,

[Nipplemancer]

While not quite the same, it's very much like the parents of one of the children from Camden, NJ who died in the trunk of a car. They're suing the police for not finding the missing children alive.
Police/Fire/EMT rescue squads are not like Dominoes, there is no rule that says your rescue will be done in 30 minutes or you get $30 million.

[babygene]

I wonder if I could file some kind of "class" suit against everybody, just in case someone pi$$ed me off...

[C210N]

The obvious solution to the sue-happy culture is staring us in the face:

In the wake of the NCAA rulings, declare that to "Sue" is not P-C, and offensive to "Native Americans". This may put a few lawyers out of work, but them's the brakes.

[rawcatslyentist]

>"Ahhhhh Life. Another dissatisfied customer...."

Not for long, and very few people ever return to complain about the afterlife.

Kill A Commie For Mommie
Seven Dead Monkeys Page O Tunes

[ChristianDefender]

You will be in trouble because everybody will also be pi$$ed off...they will sue you back... aaaahhh a never ending cycle...

[The Red Zone]

I don't know whether it's true for her in particular, but if she had an insurance policy which had to pay out for this, the insurance company may require her to sue.

[JSteff]

LOL

[JSteff]

"No doubt she wishes she could trade places with Mary Joe Kopechne....Touche. :D"

Give it time. After her family wins the suit.. in 3 more years the will be suing to have her feeding tubes removed.

[JRios1968]

A woman is suing the town whose police divers saved her from drowning. Barbara Connors is suing the town of Old Saybrook, Connecticut, saying she was rescued too late to prevent serious brain damage.

Am I the only one who smells the sleazy, John Edwards-type, ambulance-chasing lawyers who put her family up to this? How long before the Breck Girl is at the trial, channeling the "brain-damaged" woman's thoughts to the jury?

[garandgal]

The woman is 75 years old AND brain damaged? I seriously doubt this lawsuit is her idea.

Ding, ding, ding! She's also badly enough off that she has to be in a nursing home for the rest of her life.

Think about how well this would work out. The "mother" sues the son-in-law and the county. She's in ill health, and will presumeably not last all that long. The daughter and son-in-law will then inherit the half of the winnings (including those from his own insurance company) that the lawyer doesn't take. What a deal!

I suspect the insurance company will not settle on this one.

[JRios1968]

Give it time. After her family wins the suit.. in 3 more years the will be suing to have her feeding tubes removed.

Quick, someone check to see if she's related to Michael Schiavo!!!

[JRios1968]

NEW LONDON, Conn. A woman is suing the town whose police divers saved her from drowning

How ironic would it be if, as part of the lawsuit settlement, her family gets an eminent domain ruling, giving her the land where City Hall sits?

[knittnmom]

If I remember correctly from my First Aid training, Good Sam laws only protect the non-professional rescuer. Not paramedics, doctors, nurses, etc.

[skinkinthegrass]

..who smells the sleazy, John Edwards-type, ambulance-chasing lawyers...

Are there any other kind? (Lawyers on FR and Federalist Soc. Exempted, of course. :)

[JRios1968]

I hope that you did notice I put all the adjectives before the word "lawyers", to make sure I separated the sleazy ones from the 1% that are actually decent. ;-)

[skinkinthegrass]

..to make sure I separated the sleazy ones from the 1% that are actually decent.

That's Right, you were being very specific. I stand corrected...the most outrageous/"publicity seeking"/"lunatic fringe" minority..usually defines the majority in the profession. :D

[JRios1968]

Thank you :)

And you are very correct. After all, for every Johnny Cochran there are very many like John Roberts.

[Fierce Allegiance]

Lawsouixt.

[pettifogger]

The Incredibles -- for real!

For those who missed it, the premise of the movie is that folks rescued by superheros start suing the government because of injuries they suffered during the rescues (or, because they never wanted to be rescued in the first place), forcing the "supers" underground in a government-sponsored relocation program.