“That’s where it would end up anyway even if the county paid the medical bills.”
Yeah, there’s got to be a little more detail than this. Their agents and employees caused this child’s injuries, even if those agents were 100% in the right with their actions and this was just an unfortunate mistake, clearly the child is blameless and his injuries are on them.
It may well be that the family has already filed suit and they are unwilling to pay these bills because that would, understandably, be treated as admission of culpability.
My guess is, in the end, they are going to pay, a tad over the hospital bills in fact.
Their risk management team has more than likely has advised them that if they pay the bills now it’s an admission fault and will set the stage for the pain and suffering lawsuit, which is most likely going to result in a multi million dollar judgement.
They are playing the long game with hopes if settling out of court for way less money
I certainly hope so.
And I hope the cops severely rough up their “confidential informant” for his crappy tip.
Now, if we could just put the guy who got the warrant based on the bad tip in jail...