America is the most litigious society in the world. But surely things have gone too far when parents start suing their own children to collect for inadvertent injuries.Yet that is what a 58-year-old Warren mother did recently when she tripped on a raised slab of concrete on her daughter’s driveway.
The state Court of Appeals ruled that the mother was not entitled to collect damages. But to discourage such lawsuits in the future, it should have actually fined the lawyer who brought this lawsuit.
The mother, Carla Allen, sued her daughter for failing to maintain her property in a safe condition. But the court ruled that when an average person with ordinary intelligence can discover a danger on casual inspection, as the mother could in this case, he or she cannot blame someone else for injuries.
From an editorial in The Detroit News. (via Overlawyered.com)
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This unfortunatly probably has to due with liability for insuance purposes. So that the homeowners policy would be responsible for medical bills.
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Posted on October 11, 2005 06:14