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Model Brain-Damaged by Eating Pretzel Awarded $29.5M
New York Post ^ | April 11, 2021 | Tamar Lapin

Posted on 04/11/2021 4:55:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The family of a model who was left brain-damaged after having a serious allergic reaction to a peanut butter-infused pretzel was awarded nearly $30 million by a Las Vegas jury.

Chantel Giacalone’s family was awarded the $29.5 million sum Friday when a jury found that the responding ambulance service negligently treated her in 2013, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.

“At least my daughter will be taken care of. I’m happy about that,” her father, Jack Giacalone, said after the verdict was read.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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1 posted on 04/11/2021 4:55:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Va va voom

2 posted on 04/11/2021 4:57:06 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: martin_fierro

I will take care of her.


3 posted on 04/11/2021 4:58:09 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: martin_fierro

Compare her to Kamala’s stepdaughter, the new version of a supermodel, lol


4 posted on 04/11/2021 5:00:16 PM PDT by allwrong57
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To: EEGator
Now 35, she is quadriplegic, has to be fed through a tube and can only communicate with her eyes, according to the Review-Journal.

You sure?
5 posted on 04/11/2021 5:01:03 PM PDT by dinodino ( )
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To: nickcarraway

If I had that bad of an allergy, I would not eat anything I did not prepare myself.


6 posted on 04/11/2021 5:01:15 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: nickcarraway

Did she not know she had the allergy?


7 posted on 04/11/2021 5:02:22 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nickcarraway
If you have severe food allergies why would you eat something you did not know was safe?

Maybe it was a suicide attempt.

8 posted on 04/11/2021 5:02:45 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (May their path be strewn with Legos, may they step on them with bare feet until they repent. )
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Never mind. I was just being perverted because of the picture posted.

That’s crazy it messed her up that much.
I feel bad now.


9 posted on 04/11/2021 5:03:00 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: allwrong57

She is heinous.


10 posted on 04/11/2021 5:03:40 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: dinodino

Now that she has $30 million, she can fly to the Louvre to get miraculously healed.


11 posted on 04/11/2021 5:05:43 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
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To: dfwgator

Possibly not. With the artificial chemicals they often put in foods, you can’t always know when you’re going to come across something really bad for you.


12 posted on 04/11/2021 5:07:17 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
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To: nickcarraway

If she was that allergic why didn’t she carry her own epinephrine pen with her?


13 posted on 04/11/2021 5:08:22 PM PDT by CaptainK ("If life's really hard, at least its short")
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To: EEGator

I could find three tweakers at any WalMart late at night that look just like her.


14 posted on 04/11/2021 5:08:52 PM PDT by allwrong57
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To: nickcarraway

Yet if she had a reaction to a vaccine....

SHE WOULD GET NOTHING!!!


15 posted on 04/11/2021 5:12:11 PM PDT by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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To: allwrong57

The fashion industry is largely comprised of gays who pick models that look like 12 y/o boys.


16 posted on 04/11/2021 5:12:20 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: nickcarraway

Why wouldn’t they have sued the “friend” that put the bite sized peanut butter filled pretzel on top of the yogurt instead of the hopital?


17 posted on 04/11/2021 5:13:08 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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That’s interesting. My husband is suffering from the results of malpractice at a hospital in Reno and no lawyer would take the case and finally one told me that Nevada had passed a law capping the awards at 300k. So every bad Dr can practice in NV and not have to worry.

I guess the EMT’s weren’t covered by that law.


18 posted on 04/11/2021 5:14:02 PM PDT by Aria (- )
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To: nickcarraway

this is nuts!


19 posted on 04/11/2021 5:16:12 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: GraceG

Exactly.

Yet look at all the folks scrambling to get their shots.

Crazy world!!


20 posted on 04/11/2021 5:16:19 PM PDT by HypatiaTaught (president FRAUD of the divided states of China)
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