A California Little League coach has turned his volunteer job into a mega paying one. The coach tore his Achilles tendon when he was hit by a helmet thrown by one of his 14-year-old players who flung it into the air after a game-winning celebration. The coach is suing the teen and his family for $500,000 for his pain and suffering and $100,000 for lost wages. His parents have already had to shell out $4,000 in legal fees before the case can even get to court.
Of course, the plaintiff’s attorney thinks this is a valid suit and says that the boy should not have thrown his helmet in celebration so he and family are getting what they deserve. After being told the family doesn’t have homeowner’s insurance the lawyer with the heart of gold was unmoved by the family’s plight and said that if the family owned a home, they should have had homeowner’s insurance.
There are three lessons here:
1. Don’t let schmucks coach your kids.
2. Striking out and losing a game is better than your parents losing their house.
3. A good ambulance chaser can make a home run out of the weakest hit.
Just another fine example of why I carry Celebration Insurance.
Yep, someone had to underwrite those policies!
Helmets with chin straps. Double leaf, triple snapped chin straps with combination locks known only to a designated parent. That’ll be the outcome. The coach won’t get any money. Nobody in Little League will ever be allowed to toss a helmet, nor take one off within 100 yards of a baseball field. Nor ever wave to a pretty girl with your helmet… unless your designated parent springs you with the combination.
So freaking ridiculous and his lawyer thinks no celebration is the way to go. Why not just make kids robots? They can’t yell, scream, touch each other in any way, defend each other, play sports, celebrate in sports without the fear of being sued, expelled or jailed. No wonder they are going off the deep end.
That miserable bastard is little in more ways than one.
I’d say this was a case of hit, hit then run! Jeez let’s give this schmuck the A-hole of the year award! Funny one Donna!!
Thanks Deb!
That little kid knocked me over the boards when I was reffing hockey, what was his name? So much lost revenue. Your prescriptions are excellent for this situation (coach is a moron).
Yep. I told my husband that this year umping, every time a catcher misses, sue! HA HA! What kind of imbeciles are in this greedy world!
That reminds me of the old joke: What do you call a hundred lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?
A good start.
In order for the lawyer to take this on, this guy had to approach him. My daughter played travel softball for years and my husband is a baseball and softball ump and never had he heard of this. Leagues have insurance for this type of thing. What was the point of going after your player?
Don’t be so sure the guy approached him — when a college kid backed into my car a few years ago, I was contacted by a half dozen lawyers who wanted to take on my “case”. For a fender bender that didn’t even hurt anyone! Of course, the difference is that I said no, and the greedy coach said yes.
Really?
Absolutely. Some big law firms employ people who go through police accident reports, looking for someone who’s been “wronged” so they can collect their fee. That’s what happened to me. They used to call them “ambulance chasers”.
Man o man. As a long-time girls softball coach, this really crisps my bacon. Where is the love? Where is the dedication? Where is the selfless volunteering of time expecting nothing in return but seeing the satisfaction on just one kid’s face when they . . . wait a minute, where’s my pay?
This is why sometimes I think the world has no future. If this is what we do with Little League, imagine the bigger asses that are out there waiting just to do more.
If I were the judge on this case I’d throw it out of court for being frivolous and demand that the plaintiff reimburse the family the money they had to shell out.
I so agree Kathy!
Now there’s a coach we can all live without.
The thing I don’t get is that the little league carries insurance. Why not pay the bills out of the league’s insurance? The coach should never coach again.
When my son-in-law tore his Achilles tendon playing on a Corporate Challenge team for his new job, he was happy to have workman’s comp and to be able to keep his job. I guess he should have sued somebody and made several lawyers happy!
I guess the difference is Mike, your son-in-law has a heart!