Brickbat: Unfriendly Fire

The borough of Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania, has agreed to pay $11 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of Fanta Bility, an 8-year-old girl who was
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5 years probation for killing a bystander NPC? Harsh!
I'm sure five years probation for reckless endangerment is exactly how any of us plebs would have ended up. What's more, these were fine officers in fear of their lives.
Something is making me think of Scott adams
You mean former insurance policy.
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An insurance policy can't cap damages. It's more like the insurance company was willing to pay this and it was easier to take the settlement than fight it in court.
... well, for $11 million, I'd probably do the same.
Yeah, I was wondering how an insurance company get to set judicial award amounts.
Waitaminnit! Isn't the reticence of insurers threatened by flaming mobs good enough justificationn for shutting down construction of nuclear plants and freezing in the dark? Is that not the libertarian anarco-communist solution to all energy issues?
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The article says the town "agreed to pay". That means it was a settlement, not a judicial award. While an insurance company can't cap an award, the insurance policy does have policy limits. And those policy limits are often used as a de facto cap on the settlement amount.
You can sue for as much as you like but policy limits are all you will get out of the insurance company (unless there's bad faith on the part of the insurance company but that's a separate penalty for a separate misdeed).
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Coulda been worse, she could have been sentenced to death by a 9-3 split decision in FL.
What a CRUEL AND UNUSUAL slap on the wrist! Next time a teenager opens reprisal fire on a police car, let the jury be reminded of this shocking violation of Second Amendment qualified immunity in closing arguments.
The money will go to Bility's family as well as other victims of the incident; the award amount was capped by the borough's insurance policy.
Someone needs to explain this to me.
Somebody mentioned further up in the Comments (H/T to Davy C) that this was the maximum amount that the Insurance Company was on the hook for, and the family concluded that this was a better course of action that taking the case to trial in hopes of the jury handing out a larger judgement.
Since there is at least ONE case of a city with a judgement against it, but the city council refuses to authorize the payment of the judgement, and legal rules prevent the plaintiff from FORCING the payment from a municipality, this was probably the correct decision.
egal rules prevent the plaintiff from FORCING the payment from a municipality, this was probably the correct decision.
Thanks for that. That explains a lot. One wonders if Reason could possibly do a sharp takedown of this in a series of three or four hundred articles over the next 90 days as they do with Qualified Immunity. Because, from this libertarian's eyes, this is a bigger impediment to "justice".
>>Fanta Bility
(^^ may she r.i.p.) I have a cousin named Shasta.
Probably no relation, but I knew a dancer named Flexi once.
probably no relation but my cousin might know her
Knowing a dancer named Flexi gets a high five from me.
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