Not to sound heartless, but as a County taxpayer, he's suing for my money. So my first thought was this: if he was the coroner, and he caught the infection from a sharp, dirty morgue table, wasn't the condition of the table his responsibility? How can he sue the County for the conditions of a facility that was under his control? If it's his insurance company suing the County, couldn't the County then sue him?

I'm sure I'm wrong, and somebody will tell me why.

If a work comp claim is justified, the workers comp insurance pays all the bills, not just your pay while off work.



It doesn't matter who was "at fault" the workers comp insurance must pay the bills if the injury occured at work; however, since Dr. Kirchner was an elected official, he was not covered by worker's comp insurance. His attorney says there are subsections that do cover him so I guess we shall see after the hearing.

And as this goes to court, depending on how tenacious both sides are, and how far the court allows this to progress, just the evidence stuff is going to be costly. How does either side determine WHERE the initial injury took place? Did I read that he did NOT file a notice about the injury taking place at work at the time that it happened? Now it is just going to be his word. And, I have to say, with wounds and serious infection, it can be hard to determine WHICH WOUND and WHEN that wound happened. There is DNA testing of bacteria -- that is what led the FBI to the anthrax lab and scientists -- but that means they would have to find that same bacteria present IN THE MORGUE -- STILL ON SURFACES -- and after all this time, and repeated normal day to day cleaning procedures, that might be unlikely.

This "idiot" doesn't have to resort to calling names. I only call it like I see it. So he loses the election and then gets sick. Amazing stroke of "unfortunate events" don't you think? Well, besides for the rest of the previous year that he graced the news.