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Somebody upthread mentioned needing an MRI after a child hit his neck. The out-of-pocket cost for an MRI under my insurance is $800. (Without insurance, it's more than $2K.) My ER copay is $100. I think when people sue, they are usually just trying to get someone else's insurance to pay their medical bills, and that's why homeowners insurance doesn't want to cover trampolines.
I just don't understand why other people always have to pay others' medical bills. I wouldn't dream of asking a friend to pay for an x-ray if I fell and broke a bone at their home.
I just don't understand why other people always have to pay others' medical bills. I wouldn't dream of asking a friend to pay for an x-ray if I fell and broke a bone at their home.
You're smarter than a lot of people, I'm afraid. I wouldn't either. Your accident = your payment. Unless something was UNREASONABLY dangerous. A trampoline is reasonable.
You're smarter than a lot of people, I'm afraid. I wouldn't either. Your accident = your payment. Unless something was UNREASONABLY dangerous. A trampoline is reasonable.
Agree unless this friend shoved me down the stairs or tried to murder me or something that happened because of THEIR stupidity like accidentally lighting me on fire doing because they were doing something stupid with fire, I wouldn't ask them to pay my medical bills or anything.
But if I am at someones house and *I* hurt myself, that's my fault. If I am drunk and on their trampoline and snap my arm in two that's my fault not my friends.
I know someone who was sued and lost because a kid fell out of their tree house while no one was even home.
I would love to get a trampoline but it rains so much where we live that I think it would be wet and dangerous much of the year. I will say that my friend who is an ER nurse is anti-trampoline. She is also anti cheerleading, skiing, football and 4-wheelers...my husband says she's anti-fun but I figure she's in the trenches with this stuff.
I know someone who was sued and lost because a kid fell out of their tree house while no one was even home.
I would love to get a trampoline but it rains so much where we live that I think it would be wet and dangerous much of the year. I will say that my friend who is an ER nurse is anti-trampoline. She is also anti cheerleading, skiing, football and 4-wheelers...my husband says she's anti-fun but I figure she's in the trenches with this stuff.
Sued and lost? All I know is that the person that decided that case was a dummy.
Sued and lost? All I know is that the person that decided that case was a dummy.
It was considered an "attractive nuisance" and the owners were deemed responsible for it because it was on their property and there wasn't a fence etc. To make the case even worse the boy who fell out and broke his arm actually used to live in the house and had moved down the road, so it was actually he and his father who built the tree house in the first place .
We plan to get a trampoline someday. But we'll be there to supervise until he's quite mature and competent on the thing (They're very tricky, though not unpredictable).
I say nay. Our neighbors have one for their boys. They bought it last summer. I haven't seen the kids on since. The grass underneath is as tall as the trampoline. I think they are fun but I never considered one for my child. The expense, liability and injury factor. My fear about the injury factor probably stems from what happened to a coworker of mine a while back.
She got a call from her husband saying he was in the ER with their son. Turns out they went to visit someone that had a trampoline. The kid bounced off, landing on his head. He was completely knocked out. When he came to he didnt know his ABC's, his sister's name nor the dog's name. He made a full recovery but it took a few months. He repeated kindergarten because he missed so much school.
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but I figure she's in the trenches with this stuff.
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