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Originally Posted by jammies
Article says "Justice" suffers from severe headaches now. Maybe that prevents her from doing as well in school as she could have otherwise, and eventually affects her work life. It doesn't seem unreasonable at all, and I'll bet she gets something, if maybe not a million bucks.
Frankly $5 million between the two of them seems light to me. Ride disintegrates and you get thrown off and seriously injured, and it's found later that it would have been preventable by proper maintenance and inspection? That almost calls for criminal charges - they could have just as easily been killed.
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My problem with the $1 million is how exactly can you prove that? See as a high school student, it makes it difficult to prove $1 million is the potential lost amount. If she was a working professional, say a doctor or lawyer or whatever, you could truly value that. But what if she at the time had no clear career ambitions? Is there really a way to prove this accident cost her a chance at a career where she could have earned $1 million more than before the accident? If she's talking the entirety of her life that will suffer because of this, then $1 million might make sense (give or take about a $20,000 a year difference in potential wage earnings). But again, how can you possibly quantify this from a high school student?
I'd also like to add that it amazes me how all kinds of medical, mental and psychologocial treatments can't help people get over PTSD or other issues...but $1 million dollars always seems to help cure them. Not saying they're faking, just pointing out how $1 million seems like the cure.