Newest update from Forbes.com: the suit now seeks $500,000 instead of the previously reported $150,000, and the suing
twat woman now claims that the boy hit her deliberately:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/bobcook/2012/06/22/little-league-catcher-sued-by-grownup-hit-in-face-with-his-errant-preteen-throw/
I side with the boy. At age 11, as the story notes, if he could throw a ball at, and hit, a face some 60 feet away outside the fenced-in area where he was practicing, he's ready for the major leagues. He ran to her right after it happened to see if she was okay, which is not the action of someone who might have purposely thrown the ball at her. And she waited two years to file suit.
In every online version of this story that allows comments, virtually no one seems to side with the woman. If nothing else, there is a legal concept of assuming responsibility for placing yourself in possible hazard from being near a sporting event involving thrown stuff or high speed. Yet she claims in her suit that he was pitching in an inappropriate place. If not a baseball diamond, then where would have been such a place?
Tell me we don't need some type of tort reform in the US. At least the concept of "loser pays" needs consideration...
