Erin Andrews just got $55mil awarded to her. Sounds to me like she should've asked for more. Hope this forces all hotels to tighten up security.
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Erin Andrews just got $55mil awarded to her. Sounds to me like she should've asked for more. Hope this forces all hotels to tighten up security.
And for those worried about poor Marriott getting the blame and not assigning blame to the stalker, it was split 51%/49% stalker/hotel liability. So Marriott owes $26M and the stalker owes $28M, which will never be paid. That's why you name all parties in a lawsuit so that the courts can sort out proper liability in one place instead of having a bunch of different lawsuits against different defendants in different courts such that you might end up winning against all of them and have it add up to more than the damages you were seeking.
Avery would've probably won a lot more than he settled for if he hadn't needed quick cash to hire defense attorneys over his murder charge. Also, different states, with different tort laws, and over a decade difference in time.
It's also possible to think that Andrews deserved to win this lawsuit AND think Steve Avery deserved every bit of the $34M he wanted for wrongful imprisonment before he had to settle.
Guess 75MM was indeed too much if she got 55MM- half of which will never be paid
1/2 of 55MM still a nice day for her. That should ease the pain.
More...if you say so. I agree about hotel security. I like the job Erin does and as a pragmatist, know that this has not hurt her marketability with the sports world.
Just a thought, ID love it if every media outlet that published images of this were made to help foot 1/2 the monetary part. The fella that did it should spend time in LA county with some real sex offenders.
The real purpose of the suit should be to prevent in the future.
So who ACTUALLY will pay? My guess is Marriot is insured for this. So that means that those who pay for liability insurance will pay for it. THAT will be passed on to their customers as a cost of doing business. That means when you get right down to it that WE pay for it. Cheers.
Absurd. Give her half a mil and call it a day.
The lawsuit is against the franchise owner, the management firm operating the hotel, and the stalker. I'm sure she will get much more money out of the first two than the latter.
Isn't that how punitive damages work?
Also, a pic like the pic below is pretty "revealing" for what she normally wears on tv, but is a long way from being naked. But if you are trying say posting publicly available clothed pics is as bad as posting creepy taken nude pics against her will through a peep hole is the same thing, then you must do really well with the ladies. It's really like saying a chick wearing a short skirt is asking to get raped.
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