Judges should have better sense than to award
With all due respect to the people who feel the need to sue, PTSD can be difficult to treat. But Like anything, recover depends on the person and their willingness to help themselves overcome the incident causing the reaction. Some people probably will need ongoing treatment but others will use PTSD as a way of "NOT BEING ABLE TO WORK EVER AGAIN".
A member of my family suffered from PTSD and I understand it’s not easy. BUT, those who have a get on with it attitude are usually the ones who recover after some counselling and those who seek continued counselling sometimes just want to relive the experience over and over and over again thus preventing themselves from moving on!
Just a note - here in Ireland suing is nearly as bad as the states. Only this week there was a case in the High Court where Lithuanian guy tried suing a midwife for €38,000! Reason: She asked him to turn his camcorder off and stop filming the birth of his baby for a few minutes. Reason she asked him to turn it off: she needed to perform emergency suction on the new born's trachea because the infant was not breathing. Thankfully the infant survived and the case thrown out of court! (The law firm should have had better sense than to take such a case. He was even landed with having to pay all the legal costs for the Midwife and the cost of the court sitting and rightly so)
4 years ago a nurse on her way to work stopped at road side accident in which a man had basically died at the scene. She performed CPR on him. She revived him and after hospital treatment he survived. He went on to sue the nurse who administered CPR which save his life on the road side. Reason: he accused her of cracking one his ribs. The lady only brought him back to life. An ungrateful ass**le like him didn't deserve her kindness or efforts!
Some people are just money grabbers and get rich quick opportunists! Anyone who wants to try making a quick dollar out of this should be ashamed of themselves and what goes around comes around. Faith may not be so kind to them the next time they are looking death in the face! Karma!
I do believe that people should be helped towards their medical expenses if they can't afford it but at the end of the day it was the birds fault and insurance companies & airlines employ some pretty smart legal EAGLES themselves ! ! ! ACT OF GOD - don't know of any Insurance Company or Airline to cover that ! ! !
On the other hand if this was a ACT OF MAN as in something to do with engineering or human error then that is a different flock of birds ! ! !