Sounds like Walmart forked over big money for medical bills, and then discovered that these people sued the trucking company for medical costs. Obviously, these people are suffering from numerous horrible tragedies, and I don't want to be unsupportive, but... sounds like someone was trying to double-dip, here, and let one accident pay for others.
Indeed, that may be a good public realtions move in the short run but in the end it would award and encourage this type of abuse in the future. Walmart has a history of large ongoing charitable donations. If they choose to donate to this family fine. But trying to use the courts and manipulate public perception to force them to do it is wrong.
It isn't morally right to extort money from a business by abusing the courts and media and this exception wouldn't be rare when the next guy said hey.... you didn't bend the rules for me... and me... and me...
Oh Lord have mercy lol, and I said that I would agree with you normally, however I feel that this is a very rare exception. It just isn't morally right, period."If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything." (I can't believe I'm using a Malcolm X quote rofl)
Yes but what people dont relize is that there IS something walmart can do without the "legal precedent" and a tax deduction to boot they just collect the money and donate it back for her care. im sure wally-world would love a 470,000 tax deduction instead of a 470000 black cloud that now hangs over them
I personally don't use my student loans because I would have to pay them back even though I really could use the money. I wouldn't ask for loan forgiveness. Rules are rules.
and here is the body of my email so everyone can call me giggly mc scrooge.The woman had a copy of the insurance policy. It clearly stated that Walmart had the right to seek reimbursement if money was won in the lawsuit. The company has the right to recoup it's losses. If they made an "exception" this time it would set legal precedent for every other person that files a large claim with their company to do this. It would cost them millions of dollars a year and result in the raising of insurance rates for every single walmart employee. Either that or adversely effect the quality of coverage for them.May I point out that Walmart was not the cause of her injury. Walmart did not kill her son. It's very tragic but they can't base fiscal policy on feeling bad for someone. Y'all seem to really enjoy those low low prices and the convenience of a store within spitting distance. How is a big store going to accomplish this without safeguarding it's interests? Sure, it would be nice in theory for them to just give away half a million dollars here and there. But in the real world it wouldn't be just here and there. It would be here there and everywhere. Successful real world economic policy doesn't work that way. The judicial system runs on the application of consistent policy. Set a precedent like this and the company would be hemorrhaging lawsuit money.Finally, the sense of entitlement this family has is appalling.Not only do they expect the courts to force this company to commit an act of charitable giving for their own failure to read their policy or properly invest their windfall, they compound this by complaining that it will take money away that they wanted to use to send their kid to college? Must be nice. My parents didn't pay for mine. That's a luxury. The kid can get a job. Let's not even start on their openly committing Medicaid fraud by the husband divorcing her in name only so she can milk the tax payers for higher benefits. If I did that I'd go to prison. Using the unrelated death of their son in Iraq to sway public perception is shameful. Only someone without any sense of personal responsibility or a complete inability to understand economic policy would sign that petition.
email me your address (I'll buy your gummies at Walfart hahahahahaaaa!!! j/k)
I refused to go to Walfart before and now I will NEVER go there again. What a shame. And where the hell are my gummies? :)
Sounds like Walmart forked over big money for medical bills, and then discovered that these people sued the trucking company for medical costs. Obviously, these people are suffering from numerous horrible tragedies, and I don't want to be unsupportive, but... sounds like someone was trying to double-dip, here, and let one accident pay for others.
hahahahaaa!! Deal, and I'll stock you up on the gummy bears as well lol
fine but you will have to send me more vegan marshmallows or I will sue you for them. You've created a dependancy on them so I am therfore entitled.
we are going to have to agree to disagree over this one :-)~
Indeed, that may be a good public realtions move in the short run but in the end it would award and encourage this type of abuse in the future. Walmart has a history of large ongoing charitable donations. If they choose to donate to this family fine. But trying to use the courts and manipulate public perception to force them to do it is wrong.
It isn't morally right to extort money from a business by abusing the courts and media and this exception wouldn't be rare when the next guy said hey.... you didn't bend the rules for me... and me... and me...
Oh Lord have mercy lol, and I said that I would agree with you normally, however I feel that this is a very rare exception. It just isn't morally right, period."If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything." (I can't believe I'm using a Malcolm X quote rofl)
Yes but what people dont relize is that there IS something walmart can do without the "legal precedent" and a tax deduction to boot they just collect the money and donate it back for her care. im sure wally-world would love a 470,000 tax deduction instead of a 470000 black cloud that now hangs over them
I personally don't use my student loans because I would have to pay them back even though I really could use the money. I wouldn't ask for loan forgiveness. Rules are rules.
and here is the body of my email so everyone can call me giggly mc scrooge.The woman had a copy of the insurance policy. It clearly stated that Walmart had the right to seek reimbursement if money was won in the lawsuit. The company has the right to recoup it's losses. If they made an "exception" this time it would set legal precedent for every other person that files a large claim with their company to do this. It would cost them millions of dollars a year and result in the raising of insurance rates for every single walmart employee. Either that or adversely effect the quality of coverage for them.May I point out that Walmart was not the cause of her injury. Walmart did not kill her son. It's very tragic but they can't base fiscal policy on feeling bad for someone. Y'all seem to really enjoy those low low prices and the convenience of a store within spitting distance. How is a big store going to accomplish this without safeguarding it's interests? Sure, it would be nice in theory for them to just give away half a million dollars here and there. But in the real world it wouldn't be just here and there. It would be here there and everywhere. Successful real world economic policy doesn't work that way. The judicial system runs on the application of consistent policy. Set a precedent like this and the company would be hemorrhaging lawsuit money.Finally, the sense of entitlement this family has is appalling.Not only do they expect the courts to force this company to commit an act of charitable giving for their own failure to read their policy or properly invest their windfall, they compound this by complaining that it will take money away that they wanted to use to send their kid to college? Must be nice. My parents didn't pay for mine. That's a luxury. The kid can get a job. Let's not even start on their openly committing Medicaid fraud by the husband divorcing her in name only so she can milk the tax payers for higher benefits. If I did that I'd go to prison. Using the unrelated death of their son in Iraq to sway public perception is shameful. Only someone without any sense of personal responsibility or a complete inability to understand economic policy would sign that petition.
yes and you just got my response to it ;-)~
lol if you check your email again you'll see what i think of that ROFLMAO
I just now heard about this for the first time on aol news and it made me sick. I checked my email and I just signed the petition
Wal-mart sucks! They treat employees like sausages!
Better sign Honesty's email petition, otherwise she'll punch you in the ovaries ;)