[mountaineer]

No compensation for non-injuries not suffered at work - gee, it sounded like a good idea at the time.

[Lancey Howard]

Every Democrat scumbag is looking for an angle.
Free stuff. It's what it's all about.

[mountaineer]

BTW, a friend of our family was scheduled to work TW800 as a flight attendant, but she switched with another woman, who perished. It must not have occurred to her to sue for her own non-death.

[Lancey Howard]

Notice this part?

A workers' compensation judge awarded her medical and disability payments but that was overturned Wednesday by the three-judge state appellate court.

So, some scumbag Democrat judge did think it was a great idea to give away (somebody else's) money for nothing.

[Paul Atreides]

Umpteenth "victim:" "I brushed up against a guy in the elevator, who later died in the World Trade Center; can I have three billion dollars?"

[martin_fierro]

Nice work if you can (not) get it.

[lowbridge]

bump

[Pedantic_Lady]

No compensation for non-injuries not suffered at work - gee, it sounded like a good idea at the time.

I think some people aren't being very fair; how would you have felt if you had traded shifts with someone and they met such a horrific end? I would feel extremely guilty and might not ever be able to get over it. It would affect me every day for the rest of my life. If anything, United should have at least paid for psychiatric care and medication; after all, it's the airline lobby in the U.S. that partially contributed to the soft security underbelly that allowed these attacks to happen in the first place. United is a very vocal part of that lobby, so they must bear some responsibility.

[Agnes Heep]

My work caused me to come into contact with the remains of all the Pentagon victims; something I was very ill prepared for. Not very pleasant; but damned if I'm about to sue anyone over it. This woman should consider herself lucky and make an end of it. I suspect, however, that her motives are purely mercenary.

[jimfree]

I'm sorry for her situation. But, she has been given an opportunity to go well beyond a possible death. She took the day off to care for her child and because of that choice she remains here to continue to care for that child. She chances fritting away that wonderful gift if she focuses on bogus litigation. I cried profusely on 09/11/01. I learned several months later that I knew folks on flight 77 and cried some more. I don't have anybody to sue or make a claim against. She got a pass from certain death and owes much to God and her family and her coworker that covered for her. She renegs on that debt by pursuing compensation.

[muir_redwoods]

My father-in-law was stationed aboard the Arizona and had traded duty the night of December 6, 1941 with a friend of his who is still aboard. My father-in-law went on to serve in the Atlantic and was involved in the D-Day landing. He felt guilty his whole life for having dodged death at Pearl Harbor. I don't think he ever missed work over it or made any claim but I can see how someone, perhaps a bit less tough, could find it hard to adjust

[Indie]

It didn't occur to me to sue the City of ? when I was ill and called it, and my relief partner was killed by a gunman in a suspicious vehicle parked at the lake. His partner stayed in the car rather than getting out to cover him....I would have gotten out.
Not looking for sympathy....just to make the point...stuff happens and we shouldn't be able to sue everytime something fouls up in our lives when it's nobody's fault.

[Timesink]

He said Stroka probably could have sought permanent partial disability benefits if doctors had agreed that she could never fly again.

If, in 2003, you can't find a doctor somewhere willing to sign off on a form saying you're disabled, then there's no room to even argue the point. If she were even 1% out of commission, the touchy-feely medical community would have been falling all over themselves to help her get her windfall.