• kittenbridgeasteroid
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    1 year ago

    The thing is that emergency personnel aren’t liable if they’re responding to an emergency. The courts will side with them 99% of the time.

    His case was lost before he even filed it.

    Also, paying out isn’t done out of the city budget. These huge payouts you see are from the city’s insurance policy, and that policy likely requires them to fight it.

    • Doug Holland@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      These huge payouts you see are from the city’s insurance policy, and that policy likely requires them to fight it.

      If those are the rules the rules are wrong and ought to be illegal.

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        1 year ago

        It’s just how insurance works. Whenever you hear a story about like a mother suing their kid because they fell or something, it’s really just two insurance companies suing each other.