Pimps gotta get paid… *uh hum* laywers gotta get paid ;) Simply put, lawyers drive up the cost of doing business (insurance, compliance, training, employeement) which is all passed to the consumer. It’s sad, but lawyers look out for their own interests before the clients.
IJ….more information, please! Are these organizations required to provide health insurance for these gymnasts? Can the gymnast obtain insurance on his/her own and seek reimbursement? What about the Organizations’ and the gymnast’s failure to mitigate damages? Since they already knew about the gymnast’s injuries, why didn’t they do anything to prevent this from happening? I have a lot of questions…..
At the risk of sounding heartless, if the gymnast was Chinese and since the Chinese government provides free healthcare, then what’s the problem ? Maybe this unfortunate individual recognizes the superiority of American health care. I have a Greek friend whi is a Greek citizen who had an accident in the USA and she got compensation from the Greek government. Does it work the same way in China ?
I second that: IJ this is a crap “story”. No info whatsoever. “Person says blah” is not a news story. And to Franklin the moron: you better hope individual citizens are not held responsible for anything and everything bad done by people from their country, otherwise all Americans are f@@ked. Although if it was just you I wouldn’t really care.
Hey schmo, what don’t you understand? Foreigners ridicule this country, the people, our way of life and everthing we stand for. Yet when that way of life (sad as it sometimes may be) suits their purposes, they hop right on the bandwagon and sue the deep pockets.
Sang Lan, a former Chinese star gymnast who broke her neck in the women’s vault competition at the New York Goodwill Games in July 1998, said on Friday that she will sue the event organizers and an insurance company, china.cnr.cn reports.
Sang’s attorney said Sang might demand nearly US$100 million in compensation from the organizer – AOL Time Warner, American Gymnastics Association and her American insurance company.
The lawsuit is set to be filed in a federal district court in New York later this month and the trial is expected to begin in June, her attorney added.
Sang was left paralyzed from the mid-chest down and has used a wheelchair ever since. She said many factors had prevented her from seeking justice 13 years ago, including the possibility that witnesses would be ordered by their employers to refrain from speaking about the incident.
Now several coaches and relevant personnel have retired, and they have nothing to do with their employer now. So the witnesses will not be ordered to say anything about the accident, according to the report.
U.S. Residents have no recourse to sue China for producing toxic and hazardous drywall, dumping it on the U.S. However, a gymnist who performs for the Chinese Nationalist government can come to the U.S. and sue and American corporation. Sorry for her loss, but let the Chinese government take care of her!
1) are there not inherent risk associated with being a gymnast?
2) as resulting injury from the games is not caused by the event sponsor, unless they had faulty equipment or something along that line.
3) china should be giving this girl medical care since it was their gymnast, to think that after this long – they have miscarried their own medical from this gal. but 1.8 billion? i think that gotta be a typo…
Gotta side with Franklin on this. Maybe if the girl was looking for realistic compensation, I might have some sympathy. 1.8 billion, 100 million… either way, that seems a bit excessive. And that’s even before we look into whether or not blame is to be placed anywhere.
Interesting questions from the group. So far as I am aware there is no requirement to secure insurance in this context. Primary implied assumption of risk, validity of a waiver/release (likely as to a minor) and secondary implied assumption of risk doctrines all likely will be in play. (Inherent risks vs. allegations of negligence increasing the risk). 3 year statute of limitations indicated in NY. The article in USA Today said she is 29 so it likely ran a number of years ago.
(http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2011-04-29-chinese-gymnast-injury-lawsuit_N.htm?csp=34sports)
I agree that the value of a parapalegic claim (she is noted to be paralyzed from mid-chest down) is usually about 5mm to 25mm max.
My prediction? MTD on statute of limitations granted and affirmed by the 1st.
It is embarrasing to read the racist gutteral replies from most of you scumbags. I like reading comments by Bob Bichen. At least they are level headed. Some of you have no business tainting your comments with your ignorance. My take: She’s hurt. Let our system determine which laws apply and who is ultimately responsible to treat her. Amen.
Please QUOTE the recist replies to this article? I re-read all of them, only a few mentioned that she was from China, and a few others are asking why the Chinese government isn’t taking care of her. The race card has no place in this discussion and I am sick and tired of people playing the race card when there is NO evidence for it. When you play the race card, its hard for people to determine if it was really racial or not. “Is the wolf really there or are they just trying to get attention again?”
“It’s YOUR money- you do with it as YOU see fit”.
Lawyers are watching too many of their own commercials: “1.8 $B”??
Is there no statute of limititions here? How about “assumed risk”? Hey: here’s a new concept- “common sense” sound familiar??!
Well, she was probably 5 years old when she was competing in 98 so the statute doesn run on a minor.
Besides, whatever happend to multimillion dollar lawsuits? No longer enough money I guess.
Pimps gotta get paid… *uh hum* laywers gotta get paid ;) Simply put, lawyers drive up the cost of doing business (insurance, compliance, training, employeement) which is all passed to the consumer. It’s sad, but lawyers look out for their own interests before the clients.
$1.8B??? That’s got to be a typo. There isn’t enough pain and suffering for $1.8B in damages.
Knee-jerk reaction is to say, when we resolve our issues with chinese made drywall, we will then resolve your medical issues.
IJ….more information, please! Are these organizations required to provide health insurance for these gymnasts? Can the gymnast obtain insurance on his/her own and seek reimbursement? What about the Organizations’ and the gymnast’s failure to mitigate damages? Since they already knew about the gymnast’s injuries, why didn’t they do anything to prevent this from happening? I have a lot of questions…..
At the risk of sounding heartless, if the gymnast was Chinese and since the Chinese government provides free healthcare, then what’s the problem ? Maybe this unfortunate individual recognizes the superiority of American health care. I have a Greek friend whi is a Greek citizen who had an accident in the USA and she got compensation from the Greek government. Does it work the same way in China ?
The problem? A highly litigious US culture with the opportunity to obtain a huge payday.
I second that: IJ this is a crap “story”. No info whatsoever. “Person says blah” is not a news story. And to Franklin the moron: you better hope individual citizens are not held responsible for anything and everything bad done by people from their country, otherwise all Americans are f@@ked. Although if it was just you I wouldn’t really care.
Hey schmo, what don’t you understand? Foreigners ridicule this country, the people, our way of life and everthing we stand for. Yet when that way of life (sad as it sometimes may be) suits their purposes, they hop right on the bandwagon and sue the deep pockets.
Doesn’t that bother you a bit?
Sang Lan, a former Chinese star gymnast who broke her neck in the women’s vault competition at the New York Goodwill Games in July 1998, said on Friday that she will sue the event organizers and an insurance company, china.cnr.cn reports.
Sang’s attorney said Sang might demand nearly US$100 million in compensation from the organizer – AOL Time Warner, American Gymnastics Association and her American insurance company.
The lawsuit is set to be filed in a federal district court in New York later this month and the trial is expected to begin in June, her attorney added.
Sang was left paralyzed from the mid-chest down and has used a wheelchair ever since. She said many factors had prevented her from seeking justice 13 years ago, including the possibility that witnesses would be ordered by their employers to refrain from speaking about the incident.
Now several coaches and relevant personnel have retired, and they have nothing to do with their employer now. So the witnesses will not be ordered to say anything about the accident, according to the report.
http://english.cri.cn/6909/2011/04/09/2741s631152.htm
U.S. Residents have no recourse to sue China for producing toxic and hazardous drywall, dumping it on the U.S. However, a gymnist who performs for the Chinese Nationalist government can come to the U.S. and sue and American corporation. Sorry for her loss, but let the Chinese government take care of her!
1) are there not inherent risk associated with being a gymnast?
2) as resulting injury from the games is not caused by the event sponsor, unless they had faulty equipment or something along that line.
3) china should be giving this girl medical care since it was their gymnast, to think that after this long – they have miscarried their own medical from this gal. but 1.8 billion? i think that gotta be a typo…
Gotta side with Franklin on this. Maybe if the girl was looking for realistic compensation, I might have some sympathy. 1.8 billion, 100 million… either way, that seems a bit excessive. And that’s even before we look into whether or not blame is to be placed anywhere.
Interesting questions from the group. So far as I am aware there is no requirement to secure insurance in this context. Primary implied assumption of risk, validity of a waiver/release (likely as to a minor) and secondary implied assumption of risk doctrines all likely will be in play. (Inherent risks vs. allegations of negligence increasing the risk). 3 year statute of limitations indicated in NY. The article in USA Today said she is 29 so it likely ran a number of years ago.
(http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2011-04-29-chinese-gymnast-injury-lawsuit_N.htm?csp=34sports)
I agree that the value of a parapalegic claim (she is noted to be paralyzed from mid-chest down) is usually about 5mm to 25mm max.
My prediction? MTD on statute of limitations granted and affirmed by the 1st.
It is embarrasing to read the racist gutteral replies from most of you scumbags. I like reading comments by Bob Bichen. At least they are level headed. Some of you have no business tainting your comments with your ignorance. My take: She’s hurt. Let our system determine which laws apply and who is ultimately responsible to treat her. Amen.
What racist replies?
Please QUOTE the recist replies to this article? I re-read all of them, only a few mentioned that she was from China, and a few others are asking why the Chinese government isn’t taking care of her. The race card has no place in this discussion and I am sick and tired of people playing the race card when there is NO evidence for it. When you play the race card, its hard for people to determine if it was really racial or not. “Is the wolf really there or are they just trying to get attention again?”