I don’t have kids and I don’t really know how PTAs work, but I assumed the T bit meant there was some sort of involvement from school employees, no?

“Look, we’ve got a serious problem here. A lot of boys don’t think careers in a STEM field are cool. What can we do to fix that?”

Aside from anything else, it’s troubling that the school has employees dopey enough that this got greenlit without anyone realizing how awful it looked.

Woah.

Hell is other people.

Okay, let’s assume then she is in chronic pain. She isn’t suing the homeowners insurance company, she’s suing her nephew. The nephew whose mother recently died and presumably left him life insurance money. It’s the timing of it all that seems mighty suspicious and disgusting.

She’s like 50 years old! Most people her age are one-fingered typers anyway.

Thank you for this much-needed disclaimer and explanation. The law suit dosn’t seem so frivolous if you read it as “Affection Aunt forced to use beloved nephew as pawn in insurance claim”

Even if it’s to sue the insurance company, I assume she had medical insurance given her location and could have sucked up whatever deductible herself. It’s a broken wrist, not a head trauma or something that requires extensive medical treatment. Instead, she waits four years and sues after the mother died, to make a…

There’s no way a broken wrist could be $126K. Could it? My 1 year old had specialized surgery for 5 hours and the bill was around 50K.

Even if it is, you figure out how to pay the damn bill yourself. He didn’t drop a cinder block on her arm while she was sleeping. He was engaging in a normal, affectionate greeting. Fuck this lady.

Lost work? She’s in HR, they aren’t exactly known for manual labour. Pain and suffering? Sounds like the kid has suffered more than a sprained wrist.

An allegedly broken wrist only being sued over 4 years later and only immediately after the mother dies, presumably leaving the child with a life insurance policy and fewer adults to help him defend against a case like this?

I would like to believe this, but if that were the case wouldn’t she be using a more spirited defense than “I can’t hold my plate at parties?”