Don’t People Think? Andrea Eichhorn isn’t Necessarily Mean
I haven’t investigated further than reading this article about Sgt Andrea Eichorn to glean more details about the case, but I feel a need to comment about the conclusions everyone’s jumped to.
The article is entitled “Cop who fell on the job sues family of baby who almost drowned”
On it’s own, not too prejudicial…
“The boy’s grandparents, named in the suit, are mystified and angry.”
Of course they are. Isn’t anyone who’s sued? Furthermore, I presume that they haven’t thought through why…
The user comments to the article are, from the sample I saw, exclusively venomous, maligning Eichorn and her entire department.
They think that suing the family is mean and ruthlessly greedy.
Folks, she’s suing the family in order to be compensated for the injury that she suffered which will have lasting damage. She’s doing it because the government for which she works does not adequately compensate her for the damage sustained by her body in the line of duty if it doesn’t make her unable to perform work. She’s suing the family, but she’s not expecting them to pay. She’s not playing a personal blame game, it’s a legal one. She’s suing the household because that’s how you get homeowner’s insurance to pay. She’s not attacking them, she’s using legal means to get compensated. She’s not doing this to injure the family.
So please… let’s not get over emotional and abandon logic. And would all the venom be there if it were the same situation, but a drug overdose by a 19-year-old delinquent?
10 comments October 10th, 2007
