Insurance Company Suing Sigma Chi (U of Georgia alleged incident)

[carnation]

Several years ago, one of our daughters was at a fraternity party at the lake home of one of the members' grandparents. They made a slip and slide on which you slid down the hill and went up in the air a ways and then down into the lake. Except our daughter--she's really little and she flew further out than anyone else and landed hard on her rear on a mostly submerged stump. Her body started to go numb and luckily, her boyfriend saw what happened and dragged her out before she swallowed any more water.

The fraternity risk people kept calling us, assuring us that they'd pay for all her bills, which amounted to thousands (and they did); they were probably afraid that we'd sue. Once we saw that she wasn't going to have lasting effects, we knew we wouldn't but we could tell that the fraternity was terrified.

Oh, and they left the slip and slide in place and another small girl went down it an hour later--after the ambulance had carried our daughter away!--and she was injured and had to go to the ER too. (She wasn't at the party when our girl was hurt and had no idea what had happened before.) I bet that that fraternity's Risk Management folks were alll over them.

[texas*princess]

Originally Posted by carnation

Several years ago, one of our daughters was at a fraternity party at the lake home of one of the members' grandparents. They made a slip and slide on which you slid down the hill and went up in the air a ways and then down into the lake. Except our daughter--she's really little and she flew further out than anyone else and landed hard on her rear on a mostly submerged stump. Her body started to go numb and luckily, her boyfriend saw what happened and dragged her out before she swallowed any more water.

The fraternity risk people kept calling us, assuring us that they'd pay for all her bills, which amounted to thousands (and they did); they were probably afraid that we'd sue. Once we saw that she wasn't going to have lasting effects, we knew we wouldn't but we could tell that the fraternity was terrified.

Oh, and they left the slip and slide in place and another small girl went down it an hour later--after the ambulance had carried our daughter away!--and she was injured and had to go to the ER too. (She wasn't at the party when our girl was hurt and had no idea what had happened before.) I bet that that fraternity's Risk Management folks were alll over them.

Yipes - that is scary. I'm glad both girls are OK.

If this fraternity party was held at someone's house, would the owner of the house have any sort of liability since it took place on his property?

[carnation]

The ADPi was really bruised up and our daughter had a badly sprained back. They were both in physical therapy for a couple of months but finally got better.

Oddly enough, the fraternity seemed desperate to go ahead and pay the bills and not involve the grandparents and I'm wondering if they even knew about the party.

[UGAalum94]

I'm glad they were okay, Carnation.

You'd think that if you know you're at fault or if you think you're going be held liable, that you'd want to make arrangements to pay medical expenses to avoid the additional costs of the suit.

Maybe the Red and Black's coverage misrepresents what the medical expenses really were so that's why it hasn't been taken care of in this case.