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08-30-2009, 10:05 PM
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#1 | | I Will not Admit my Addiction to RS
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News is a couple weeks old but I just found now. Wow I can't believe the daughters only settled for $200,000 for the loss of their father in the Ferry sinking in March 2006, on top of that they had high profile lawyer Peter Richie. http://www2.canada.com/nanaimodailyn...b-f597fd29dae4 | 
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08-31-2009, 12:41 AM
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#2 | | I am on the internets
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wow.
in america is would be millions and the ferries would be bankrupt after that suit.
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08-31-2009, 12:52 AM
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this would not have happened if that damn new sky train wasn't built
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08-31-2009, 01:19 AM
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#4 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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Two teenage girls whose father died.....
probably thought 200k was HUGE money....
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08-31-2009, 01:33 AM
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200k is better than more money for lawyers and years of waiting and the possiblity of getting less overall later on.
I wonder if there was any insurance money on top of that.
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08-31-2009, 01:53 AM
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#6 | | In RS I Trust
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money can't buy your happyness or even forgiveness for what happed. The prob thought it was better to get it over with and put it beind them rather then going through courtfor years
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08-31-2009, 02:58 AM
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"A breakdown of the agreement reveals that the girls each received $30,000 for loss of love, guidance and affection"
LOL thats brutal... a father's love is worth a little less than a CSX
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08-31-2009, 07:27 AM
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#8 | | Willing to sell a family member for a few minutes on RS
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Originally Posted by pandalove  this would not have happened if that damn new sky train wasn't built |  this is your response to everything now isnt it?
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08-31-2009, 09:34 AM
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lol, once again it has proven that human lives r disposable. No need to get all up in arms, it isnt exactly news that lives of normal folks r worth very little compared to rich ppl.
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08-31-2009, 09:36 AM
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Originally Posted by pandalove this would not have happened if that damn new sky train wasn't built | after reading couple threads and i still LOL on this response ....so random
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08-31-2009, 09:41 AM
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Originally Posted by silk after reading couple threads and i still LOL on this response ....so random | yea, just like Global Warming a while back
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08-31-2009, 10:11 AM
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200k is alot of money .. do you have any idea how many times they can ride on that new skytrain for 200k... sheeehh
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08-31-2009, 10:20 AM
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Originally Posted by pandalove 200k is alot of money .. do you have any idea how many times they can ride on that new skytrain for 200k... sheeehh | Assuming they only take 1 zone and are still high school students. ($1.75)
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08-31-2009, 10:27 AM
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Originally Posted by shenmecar Assuming they only take 1 zone and are still high school students. ($1.75)
114285 times with $1.25 left for pop for 1 person. | now imagined they shared that pop  | |
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08-31-2009, 12:55 PM
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Their case was scheduled to go to a jury trial earlier this year but their lawyer, Peter Ritchie, held a news conference and said it would be too expensive to get justice and announced that there had been an out-of-court settlement with B.C. Ferries.
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Legal costs amounted to $22,976 and disbursements were $15,038.
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08-31-2009, 01:17 PM
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^ actually that sounds low. Most Personal Injury lawyers START at 30% commission. And actually it's a good thing too, because now the lawyer has a vested interest in getting the largest settlement possible for his/her client. Otherwise they wouldn't give a crap.
With that said, I can't believe the lawyer settled for $200k for a DEATH. A serious injury alone can usually result in $100k (before commission) alone.
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08-31-2009, 03:34 PM
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Originally Posted by q0192837465 lol, once again it has proven that human lives r disposable. No need to get all up in arms, it isnt exactly news that lives of normal folks r worth very little compared to rich ppl. | Why shouldn't the lives of rich ppl be worth more than normal folk?
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08-31-2009, 09:10 PM
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#18 | | WOAH! i think Vtec just kicked in!
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BC ferries may of played the your father wanted to die. Its been speculated that they may have wanted to go down with the ship, thus the daughters wouldn`t have received anything as it would have been suicide.
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08-31-2009, 09:57 PM
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from what I heard. they were sleeping in their car / camper on the car deck. on the northern ferrys you aren't allowed on the car deck durring sailing. only the upper decks. the crew helped everyone off the main decks. and probably neven even went down to the car deck. the car deck is locked the whole time so people can't go down.
so it was their breaking the ferry rules that got them killed.
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08-31-2009, 10:19 PM
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wow lawyers made way more
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08-31-2009, 11:59 PM
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Anyone else notice BCFerries website got owned by a search engine? lol
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09-01-2009, 12:10 AM
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#22 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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Originally Posted by johny from what I heard. they were sleeping in their car / camper on the car deck. on the northern ferrys you aren't allowed on the car deck durring sailing. only the upper decks. the crew helped everyone off the main decks. and probably neven even went down to the car deck. the car deck is locked the whole time so people can't go down.
so it was their breaking the ferry rules that got them killed. | if that true, they should've gotten $000000000 x infinity.00
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09-01-2009, 08:29 AM
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Originally Posted by rslater BC ferries may of played the your father wanted to die. Its been speculated that they may have wanted to go down with the ship, thus the daughters wouldn`t have received anything as it would have been suicide. |
i remember something about the parents not declared as being "dead", only "missing" for quite some time, which only delayed whatever compensation (eg. life insurance) that was available to the children  | |
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09-01-2009, 08:49 AM
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their lawyer didn't take much at all
but wow settled for $200k? jesus... they probably didnt want to go through with the case anymore and just settled on anything
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09-02-2009, 01:50 AM
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wow, 200k is nothing......
parents arent even worth 1/6th of a house in this market anymore.. wait... forgot HST... 1/16th
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