Fox News reports that Lisa Hite, one of the survivors, who has already incurred more than $43,000 for her injuries and will have surgery on her foot on December 19th, said “I’ve had better days,”when she had heard of Tuesday’s news. She has been offered $7,000.
Under the law, could the offer be more generous? Of course not. Once there is a cap on a single incident, then the greater the wreckage of innocents’ lives, the less there is to make any of the victims whole. The cap, by its very nature, devalues the worth of a human life and thrust the tried-and-true evaluation of a person’s worth by jury into an exercise by bean counters as to how to divide up limited funds.
The victims have until Monday to decide whether or not to accept the offer. But each acceptance of an offer will deplete the funds. So it is a dangerous gamble to wait. Is this the kind of justice we want for ourselves or our children?
For more, see:
Indiana offers $300K to stage collapse victims –Foxnews.com
Indiana sends offer to stage collapse victims –Tom LoBianco, The Chicago Tribune
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