Woman sues Little Leaguer

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MANCHESTER, N.J. -
A New Jersey woman who was hit in the face with a baseball at a Little League game is now suing the child who threw it.

Elizabeth Lloyd is suing 13-year-old Matthew Migliaccio for $500,000 for medical costs, pain and suffering, according to the Asbury Park Press.

Matthew was just 11 when he was helping a pitcher warm up in the bullpen. He threw a ball that he says accidentally struck Lloyd in the face as she sat on a picnic table about 5 feet from the fenced-in bullpen.

"I ran over to see if she was all right," Matthew told the paper. "She said she was OK. I was just on with warming the pitcher up, and I was not horsing around."

Lloyd suffered multiple fractures and needed surgery after the May 2010 incident. Now she says Migliaccio threw the ball at her intentionally.

A lawyer for Matthew and his family calls the lawsuit "frivolous" and "disgusting," adding this should be the Little League's responsibility.

A Little League spokesman says it carries insurance only for players and coaches.


Read more: http://www.myfoxdfw.com/story/18857564/woman-sues-little-leaguer-for-hitting-her-in-face#ixzz1ydjv29fg​
 
How about this: if you sue someone and lose, you owe them the exact same amount which you sought.
 
You go to a racetrack, you assume all liabilities. You go to an MLB ballpark, you accept all liabilities. Go to a hockey game, you assume all liabilities. Go to a basketball game, you assume all liabilities.

Why should little league be any different?
 
They say that at racetracks but they have major insurance they covered my medical bills when I flipped. Another track paid for a girl who got busted in the knee with a rock a car kicked up in the track. Another got hit in the head with a dirt clood and they covered that.

I know one track that they have to pay $1,000 a week, if they race or not for the policy.
 
She not suing the ball park but rather the kid as she claims he threw it at her intentionally.
 
That fine print clause on every sports venue ticket that says " ticket holder assumes all responsibilty" has more legal holes than a sieve.

"How about this: if you sue someone and lose, you owe them the exact same amount which you sought."
You do realize that this would effectively end just about every lawsuit where a person was injured by another which would leave them without any legal recourse.
 
How about if someone sues and loses, it is on them to pay the legal fees incurred by the party defending the action.
 
Whizzer said:
How about if someone sues and loses, it is on them to pay the legal fees incurred by the party defending the action.
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NO. In my mal practice suit I had a law firm consisting of 2 guys and a secretary/paralegal. The doc's insurance company had a team of lawyers numbering from a low of 6 to a high of 11 and that's not counting a small army of paralegals. They were from one of the most high dollar firms in the northeast. My attys guesstimated that their final bill after 10 years of litigation was well over 2 million and probably closer to 3 million.

If I had lost HTF would I be able to pay their bill?

Now my suit wasn't frivolous. It became known this doc had been sued, successfully, by others for making the same 'oops'. Rather than suck it up and negociating a settlement up front they weighed my health situation and figured I'd croak before trial and they could pay my wife 50k or so. I pizzed them off because here I am.
 
Lap3Forever said:
They say that at racetracks but they have major insurance they covered my medical bills when I flipped. Another track paid for a girl who got busted in the knee with a rock a car kicked up in the track. Another got hit in the head with a dirt clood and they covered that.

I know one track that they have to pay $1,000 a week, if they race or not for the policy.
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Please get your own coverage from a Good Insurance company make sure in the policy you are covered for ALL your racing activities ( driving the car, working in the pits, towing to and from races all of it ) in writing with no clause's. You where very lucky track insurance very seldom pays anything and normaly has a very low maximum they will pay.
My accident in 1999 almost ruined me $380,000 ( thats 1999 dollars probably would be in the millions now days ) in medical bills before I was released from the hospital and my medical cost still continue. The track paid nothing! The series I was racing in had a $25,000 per incedent clause and thats all they paid. I had several years that I barely got by with help from freinds and a Good Lawyer. Thankfully my racing business and personaly business where legaly seperate or I would have lost my business also.
Good Insurance is cheaper than you think.
 
Na$car has a policy for racers. Comes with your license. [or did] It pays only after your own personal health insurance runs out and is extremely limited as to $ amount if you don't have insurance.
If you rely on anything na$car does for those that make them millions and something happens to you you'll end up living in a van down by the river,,,,
 
SST55 said:
That fine print clause on every sports venue ticket that says " ticket holder assumes all responsibilty" has more legal holes than a sieve.

"How about this: if you sue someone and lose, you owe them the exact same amount which you sought."
You do realize that this would effectively end just about every lawsuit where a person was injured by another which would leave them without any legal recourse.
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I know it most likely would end BS lawsuits and put some lawyers in the unemployment line. Those with actual cause would still stand a chance and maybe if people had to take responisbility for themselves, they'd be more careful.
 
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