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According to the petition of Missouri resident Joyce Lehr, who is suing the county because she fell in an icy, unplowed parking lot of a local high school:
“All the bones, organs, muscles, tendons, tissues, nerves, veins, arteries, ligaments … discs, cartilages, and the joints of her body were fractured, broken, ruptured, punctured, compressed, dislocated, separated, bruised, contused, narrowed, abrased, lacerated, burned, cut, torn, wrenched, swollen, strained, sprained, inflamed and infected.”
And two items stolen (with permission, of course) from the IMMS newsletter: (800) 753-4467.
According to the Hartford Courant, a Connecticut woman hit by a baseball overthrown during warm-ups was quick to sue to the scatter-armed athlete, alleging “cuts that required stitches and permanent injury that caused jaw and joint pain, headaches, a cyst on her cheek, and general nervous system shock.” The defendant: a nine-year-old Little Leaguer.
IMMS – John Parker picked up a burger, chicken, fries, and a milkshake from the drive-in window of a New Jersey McDonald’s. In reaching for the fries, he squeezed the shake cradled between his knees, causing it to spill on his lap – a distraction that led to a collision with John Carter’s car. So Carter sued Parker and McDonald’s, claiming that the restaurant shouldn’t have sold him the food without a warning on the dangers of eating while driving. The case went all the way to the state’s Supreme Court, which threw it out. However, when the Big Mac folks tried to
recover some $10,000 in attorneys’ fees under New Jersey’s frivolous lawsuit statute, a judge ruled against the restaurant holding that the plaintiff was “creative and imaginative enough and should not be penalized for that.”
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