[Skywise]

What possible responsibility could they have had?!

[RummyChick]

premises liability should have paid a lot of these medical bills. It doesn’t require fault.

[Gay State Conservative]

Exactly! Years ago there was a bad fire at a small Rhode Island nightclub. About 100 people died. After a while it was realized that nobody who could reasonably be sued had any money,assets or insurance. Eventually the victims' families announced that they were gonna sue Shell Oil Company (yah,*that* Shell Oil) because they were one of the "sponsors" of the tour of the band that was on stage at the time.

Slimy lawyers looking for deep pockets.

[Rurudyne]

Lawyers are scary and it’s less expensive to settle.

[TexasFreeper2009]

none, in any sane world.

If anything EVER happens to me or someone I love I am coming after the left with the biggest law suits they have ever seen.

[Dave911]

Exactly, Because they had the deep pockets and not the perpetrator. Sorry your child is dead but do you have to make it worse by whoring their death out to make some bucks off it?

[bigbob]

Even if they had none, settling is often cheaper than proving it in court. But there must have been some legal reason the mall was not removed from the case, which I’m sure was their lawyers first motion.