Long Term Disability Insurance Lawyer Blog
While this Blog is usually devoted to issues involving LTD claims and cases, I felt I needed to go off topic for a minute.
The Michigan Supreme Court issued a decision this past week in a case where a disabled young man drowned in a public swimming pool. Investigation revealed that the lifeguard on duty was distracted, not in his designated position, and ignored several calls for help from another student who saw the disabled young man under water.
In an opinion written by (Justice) Brian Zahra the Court dismissed the claim finding that the lifeguard’s failure to act was not the proximate cause of the young man’s death even though timely action might have prevented his death. Instead, and I am not making this up, the Court determined the proximate cause of death was “that which caused him to remain submerged in the deep end of the pool without resurfacing.”
This is just the most recent in a string of confounding decisions by this Court. Despite these decisions these judges keep winning re-election. (Justice) is in parentheses above because it seems an oxymoron to me.