What's interesting to me is how settlement awards are calculated. The report pertaining to Jaycee's settlement that was recently released briefly discussed other claims that had been paid out. Several settlements were for people who had lost a family member due to mistakes made, but the average settlement amount was in the neighborhood of $2 million. There was one family who received something like $15 million for the loss of their loved one, so I can't help but be curious about why one family would receive $2 million and another would receive $15 million.
I have no idea how they calculate, I am always glad when a victim gets a big chunk of money - at least in some ways they have something to afford them a more peaceful life. Money does buy peace of mind. and no it never replaces the loss.
The report estimated that it would cost about $500K to educate all three, which is reasonable; however, it also said that a lifetime of therapy and assisted living could cost close to $7 million, which seems a bit much. I know of people who have debilitating mental illnesses -- people who need intensive care and people who will be unable to work for the rest of their lives -- but the cost of their care will come nowhere near that amount (even multiplied by three).
Based on this, they got just enough to make it. But again I am always sceptical when the calculation is made by those who may think it is too much.
Why do you think they'll never be able to work? Unfortunately, it's a possibility, but from what we've heard, Jaycee and the girls seem to be doing exceptionally well given their circumstances. I think there is a pretty decent possibility that they'll be able to go to school and work sometime in the future.
Who is going to hire them? they come with paparazzi, who wants that in their place of business? what can they do? how much can that earn? They need much therapy, when would they have time to study and get therapy? and by the way this case will not be over for several years.
LOL! You've never been one to mince words, that's for sure.
I am too old to change that. lol
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by that. My original point was that parole reform, which may be needed to prevent something like this from happening again, may be costly. If $20 million is paid out each time a parole officer screws up, where will they get the money to make the necessary changes? Unfortunately, there isn't an infinite amount of money at CA's disposal.
IF it continues to cost them, they will have to change their methods, maybe they would actually have new ethic code that spells "CARE" "DO THE JOB" etc....
That's the thing. If there is something wrong with the parole system, it needs to be fixed. Doing so will cost money. If you spend that money paying huge settlements to victims of parole officer screw ups, you're going to have less money to make the reforms needed to help prevent screw ups from happening again, which in turn could cause more money in claims to be paid out.
