Elphaba
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Ugh Why? This is apples and oranges. :banghead:
Because it is the Brainwashington Times… apples and oranges commentary is their way of muddying up reality.
Ugh Why? This is apples and oranges. :banghead:
You're most welcome. No, the hospital does not need to be found guilty for the medmal case to settle. A complaint doesn't even need to be filed. The insurers of the hospital, docs and nurses will evaluate it in business terms and decide whether and how much they're willing to settle for, if at all, given the costs of litigation, the likelihood of a substantial verdict in plaintiff's favor and the facts of the particular case. jmo
If it settles, how much do you think it will settle for?
Jahi is deceased, so lifelong prospective care is not an issue. Just costs, plus the $250K cap?
Remember this good article?
Meghan Daum ‏@meghan_daum 17h
This week's column: The time for subtlety and "balance" in the #JahiMcMath saga is OVER.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/comm...media-20140116,0,4738876.column#axzz2qZIfXkaw …
Uncle didn't like it:
Omari ‏@_iamOMARI 8h
@meghan_daum Your article was both insensitive & cruel. I pray you never experience what my family & I endured.
Hmmmm... :waitasec: EndureED. Interesting choice of words. I hope this somehow means that they have come to their senses, and during this silence laid Jahi to rest. :twocents:
Well, and I say this kind of reluctantly, I was actually on the side of Terri Schivao's parents in that case. Not because I thought she was going to rise up and be herself again, just that her parents wanted to have the keeping of her and her husband had clearly already moved on emotionally/romantically AND she wasn't brain dead. Although once she did die I was pretty horrified to learn the state of her brain. Nevertheless, she wasn't brain dead like Jahi is and so there was at least some thread of actual (brain stem induced?) life there.
Unfortunately, I think he means until the family was liberated from the CHO's diabolical clutches :facepalm:
Hmmmm... :waitasec: EndureED. Interesting choice of words. I hope this somehow means that they have come to their senses, and during this silence laid Jahi to rest. :twocents:
Unfortunately, I think he means until the family was liberated from the CHO's diabolical clutches :facepalm:
I think my original estimate was $3-5M. I'll stick with that just because I don't think the family will take less than that. The hammer will be the potential of a ruling that the cap is unconstitutional. Both the hospital and the insurer will care about that. jmo
"She is Jahi a name that means 'known by many.' If she knew about all this attention she would blush. She is very shy.
I agree, probably less than $5 million. Of course, after Dolan takes his share, it won't be the fabulous lottery forturne some family members seem to think.
Do they pay taxes on that settlement/award?
Schiavo was never considered dead.
She was brain damaged, but not brain dead.
Her only life support was a feeding tube.
Since all of us must eat to stay alive, I don't consider that life support, but the law did. So that is how husband was able to remove the feeding tube. It took her 11 days to die, as I recall.
I agree, probably less than $5 million. Of course, after Dolan takes his share, it won't be the fabulous lottery forturne some family members seem to think.
Do they pay taxes on that settlement/award?
Schindler - My sister Terri Schiavo was alive like Jahi McMath
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/16/schindler-my-sister-terri-schiavo-was-alive-like-j/
Second, we are not medical professionals. We do not know if Jahi will improve. We have no way of knowing that.
Hmmmm... :waitasec: EndureED. Interesting choice of words. I hope this somehow means that they have come to their senses, and during this silence laid Jahi to rest. :twocents:
And she starved to death?
Though Ms. Schiavo went almost two weeks without her gastric feeding tube before dying on March 31, Dr. Thogmartin said she technically died of "marked dehydration," not starvation.
To me it says that he KNOWS his niece is dead (as in brain dead). I do not believe for one second that the uncle buys the whole she is still alive shtick. He is just a glutton for publicity and money.
On Tuesday, a CT scan revealed that two-thirds of Jahi's brain was swollen.
Sealey said that Jahi's brain had been deprived of oxygen. "Now she is 100% brain damaged," he said. "Medically dead."
When told that his niece was brain dead, Sealey said the entire family went into "complete devastation."
"We pray over her daily," Sealey said. "We kiss her. I charge her iPod and make sure it is in her ears every night when I sleep next to her."
But he said he had accepted that she was legally dead.
Remember this good article?
Meghan Daum ‏@meghan_daum 17h
This week's column: The time for subtlety and "balance" in the #JahiMcMath saga is OVER.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/comm...media-20140116,0,4738876.column#axzz2qZIfXkaw
Uncle didn't like it:
Omari ‏@_iamOMARI 8h
@meghan_daum Your article was both insensitive & cruel. I pray you never experience what my family & I endured.