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Thread started 12/22/08 4:06pm

Steadwood

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Outrage......

Good Samaritan faces lawsuit
Mon Dec 22 02:12PM

A court in the United States has ruled that a would-be Good Samaritan accused of rendering her friend paraplegic by pulling her from a wrecked car can be sued.
The Supreme Court of California has declared that the state's Good Samaritan law only protects people from liability if they are administering emergency medical care.

Justice Carlos Moreno ruled that a person is not obligated to come to someone's aid. "If, however, a person elects to come to someone's aid, he or she has a duty to exercise due care," he wrote.

According to the lawsuit, on 1 November 2004 Alexandra Van Horn was in the front passenger seat of a car that crashed into a lamp post at 45 mph. Lisa Torti was a passenger in a car that was following Van Horn and stopped after the crash.

According to Torti she feared the wreckage was going to explode and she therefore pulled her friend out. Van Horn has testified that Torti pulled her out of the wreckage ‘like a rag doll' and blamed her for her paralysis.

Torti argues that she should be protected from a lawsuit because she was giving ‘medical care' when she pulled Van Horn from the car.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/...icle/9758/

This is why British nurses are advised to cross the road if they see an accident

Fuckin disgraceful and ridiculous!

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Reply #1 posted 12/22/08 4:09pm

Nothinbutjoy

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How horrible

I'm firmly planted in denial

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Reply #2 posted 12/22/08 4:14pm

Steadwood

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Nothinbutjoy said:

How horrible

Don't get me wrong... I feel bad that they were paralysed, but to blame their friend is totally wrong

...I wouldn't leave my friend to die.

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Reply #3 posted 12/22/08 4:20pm

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Steadwood said:

Nothinbutjoy said:

How horrible

Don't get me wrong... I feel bad that they were paralysed, but to blame their friend is totally wrong

...I wouldn't leave my friend to die.

Exactly!!!

I think it's wrong that someone who was doing what they thought was the right thing should be left open to a lawsuit.

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Reply #4 posted 12/22/08 4:27pm

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This is the wonder of our society. Lawyers have free reign to terrorize the public. Just an FYI, nearly all elected officials are lawyers in this country. neutral

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Reply #5 posted 12/22/08 4:31pm

Nothinbutjoy

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Then if the woman had left her friend in the car and the car HAD exploded causing serious injury or death, the injured woman or her family would have sued for her NOT pulling her out of the car.

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