[lady lawyer]

One thing that keeps bothering me about these allegations that Michael Schaivo put Terri in the coma by abusing her is that Michael Schaivo actually took Terri's doctor/hospital (I'm not sure who the defendant(s) was/were) to trial and got a malpractice judgment.

I can't believe that the lawyers for the doctor/hospital didn't go over the records with a fine tooth comb for evidence that would suggest some other cause for Terri's condition. It wouldn't matter if her records were "sealed." The defendants in that lawsuit would absolutely have been entitled to them.

This just doesn't make sense to me.

It's obvious that he's a selfish bastard who exploited her condition for his own financial gain, after telling the jury he would care for her, and then reversing himself so he could use the money himself. He shouldn't be allowed to make any decisions for her.

But how could he have caused her coma, then have taken the doctor/hospital to trial, knowing that the causation of her condition would be the central issue, and that experts from the other side would have full access to the records and an incentive to blame it on him? I just don't think that could have happened.

[The Red Zone]

But would/could they have ordered hitherto unperformed tests for her, absent a reason in evidence to do so. The bone scan (that we know about) happened only after Terri was found to experience pain during physical therapy.

[Aliska]

Your #7. I thought about that, too. The only thing I can think of is that at that time, the Schindlers may have encouraged and cooperated with Michael so that they could get money to rehabilitate and care for Terry. Things didn't fall out until after that.

Any suspicions that arose came much later, just as the remembering of Terri's so-called wishes, both of which are hearsay at this point.

That trial may have gone differently if Schindlers had raised the questions that are now flying around.

Maybe the Schindlers were misled as to Michael's intentions as to what he was going to do with the money after he got it. We can't really know that, nor do I know if the money was awarded on the basis of maintenance care or included the intention of attempts at rehabilitation and therapy.

[sweetliberty]

You raise a very valid question and I expect you will get some responses to it. But then, there are a great many things in this case that don't add up or make sense. Perhaps it was because there was never an investigation done and at that time the issue of possible foul play had been dismissed (maybe prematurely).

In any event, the malpractice suit, as I understand it, was based on Terri not having had a heart attack and was aimed at a gynocologist that Michael THOUGHT should have had knowledge of a potassium imbalance, neither being conditions which would automatically spur investigation of possible strangulation. The low potassium level wasn't disputed, I don't believe, but could be caused by lack of oxygen to the brain (for whatever reason), among other possiblities.

[FR_addict]

You make a point, but who would have suspected that Scott Peterson would be dumb enough to call his mistress hundreds of times just before and many times after his wife's disappearance.

I think it's arrogance. He had his in-laws believing that he was going to use the lawsuit funds for Terri's rehabilitation. At the time the police started investigating, Terri's parents couldn't comprehend that Michael may have actually been involved and defended him to the police.

I would never believe he would have gotten away with all he has so far. He lied about what he planned to use the funds for to get the jury to give him a big award. Perhaps the doctor had a previous malpractice suit and wanted to settle quickly.

[T'wit]

See if you can track down what the jury actually decided. Some of the jury's close questioning of Michael has been published here and indicates they were basing their award on what he promised to do for her. (Incidentally, the time frame HE set was supposed to be 50 years -- 100% at odds with his later statements about her "wishing" to die.)

Someone said elsewhere that the jury marked the award down 70% for the injury being Terri's own fault. If so (and I assume it is, thought I haven't seen documentation), it almost certainly means that the medical story presented to the jury was the one about potassium imbalance due to excessive dieting or even bulimia. I don't believe that diet story is true (there is strong medical reason to think otherwise), but it may have been believable to the jury at the time.

Ergo, whatever you/we can learn about that jury will very likely shed light here.

[sweetliberty]

This is an excerpt from the last thread link I posted here (post #38):

"Doctors for the Schindlers have testified that those bruises were consistent with manual strangulation. Furthermore, skull x-rays and head CT scans done about a year after her injury indicated fractures to the occipital region which have never been explained. These fractures are consistent with trauma to the head."

Of course, it still doesn't explain why someone hasn't looked into this before now. I guess maybe the courts are too busy trying to overturn elections to worry a great deal about whether one "insignificant" woman lives or dies.

[TaxRelief]

Are you practicing in Florida? We seem to be uncovering a "good-ole-boy" network there that is very disturbing. We could sure use your help.

[Ciexyz]

HINO - Husband in Name Only. That's the perfect term for Michael Schiavo.

[tutstar]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1009193/posts

Please see here for some info with more details, this is part of what has been sent to A.G. Ashcroft

[tutstar]

? 4U

Would the laws which apply to Guardian Ad litem also apply to Michael?

[syriacus]

I am not a lawyer and know nothing about legalities surrounding trading stocks. I've heard of "insider trading" but know nothing about that.

Please forgive me for picking your brains.

How do you think we should go about checking to see if there was insider trading around the same time that Jerger Insurance being taken over by Philadelphia Consolidated?

And shortly before that, Jerger took over a company run by Steve Beaty...how could we find out if there was insider trading on that?

Or are those types of takeovers done in a way that there would have been no insider trading?

I'm not saying that anyone we've mentioned here on FR was involved in "insider trading" (whatever that is), I'm just asking a general question about persons unknown.

Florida Trend, Sept 2000 v43 i5 p16

Beaty, 41, started as an industry outsider with his own company, Micro Business Systems, providing software to independent agents. For Pinellas Park-based The Jerger Co., he developed a pioneering program that allowed it to quickly identify mobile homes by ZIP code and park. Thus, it could grow into the largest independent mobile home insurer in the Southeast, even as it spread its risk so that a single tornado didn't mean catastrophe for Jerger. In 1986, he sold Micro to Jerger and became its chief information officer. When Jerger was sold this year, Beaty jumped to Bankers.