Wednesday, June 30, 2004
It Must Stop Somewhere
--Jay at 07:27 AM--
This is just so wrong. You don’t sue people who did their best to help in an otherwise completely hopeless survival situation. You don’t sue a samaritan. The kid was effectively dead from the second he tumbled over the side. The rescue created the possibility that the virtual certainty of death might be avoided. Amazing!
Let’s not piss off the volunteers, eh? Nobody has to be a volunteer rescue worker. We’ll either end up with fewer such people, or there will be a larger proportion of situations that are “impossible” for them to help in, or where liability-avoiding caution will rule the day.
Update:
Looks like Jeff is on the story too, and he got it from Overlawyered.
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