High court won't hear case against Halliburton

http://www.compmanwc.com/

Civilian truck drivers that where imported from the US knew the risks.

This reminds me of and OHSU case.

 

A doctor, made a significant mistake and a child needlessly died.

 

Now under law the parents can either, sue the hospital for hiring this person, the doctor directly, or both. In Oregon, state law limits the liability for a state funded agency to $200,000 (at the time, the law is different now). Now OHSU is a state funded agency. So the parents chose to sue to doctor directly.

 

Now federal law allows a hospital to claim the negligence on their behalf, in essence shielding the doctor who performed the act from direct suit. Thus if a doctor does something that is medically sound, the hospital can defend them to prevent that medical person from losing/increases in insurance and possibly going to another facility (who presumably will defend them in the future).

 

OHSU did this.

 

So the parents were written a check by OHSU for $200,000 and shown the door. They sued of the fairness of the law and that $200,000 was not punitive enough to prevent negligent malpractice (as this was even OHSU agreed).

 

So here's Halliburton defending its subsidiary about lying to truckers who eventually lost their lives.

 

I wonder what the max is for worker's comp in a death. $200,000?