You think only the police had an interest in this? You really believe the insurance company would not have done all it could to prevent Michael from getting any money from it if there was ANY evidence he caused it? Come on now use your head.
Huh? It was the police who didn't take any particular interest.
>> You really believe the insurance company would not have done all it could to prevent Michael from getting any money from it if there was ANY evidence he caused it? Come on now use your head.
Use yours. The insurance companies were offered a way to settle for 10 cents on the dollar and they grabbed it. (Apart from the attractive settlement from their view, they would have looked like ogres if they'd stiffed a disabled woman.) The jury was happy because they got to award money for taking care of Terri for life. And the lawyers from both sides were happy because neither side actually did know what caused Terri's injuries. Plus they made buckets of money from the case. Bingo. Settlement.
Michael was especially happy because he won a fraudulent malpractice suit. The doctors were not guilty of any malpractice. Plus, he walked off with a fat "loss of consort" award though he was out getting all the consort he wished.
Btw, if you get around to reading transcripts from that trial, note that Michael's lawyers were NOT calling Terri "PVS." They said she had some capacities, albeit limited (which everybody concedes). They were asking for $20 million (and ended up getting $2 million).
It was AFTER Michael won the award that he decided Terri did not want to live any more. He was, after all, heir to her estate. You have to think like a lawyer to understand these things.
The bulimia theory that Michael used to sue for malpractice was the invention of a consulting trial lawyer named Gary Fox. It was nonsense, but nobody at the time could disprove it. Nobody even wanted to try. Dr. Thogmartin discussed some of this in rejecting bulimia as the cause of a low-potassium blood test Terri had had at the ER. There was no evidence of bulimia, ever, but plenty of other ways to explain the hypokalemia -- including violence. When the bulimia theory was shot down, there went Michael's only alibi.