I would speculate that you have not thought about what the cost would be for the rest of that families life. Children to take care of, one less adult in the house providing for three children. I would also speculate that you have not thought about the life long care that this women is going to need and I would further speculate that you hadn’t thought of the cost of this care. WM may have paid a great deal of her medical expences, but who is still paying for her care? Her family, thats who and what ever assistance she recieves from medicare or social security. Of course they wanted to keep the money. Do you honestly think that it was because they are greedy or maybe do you think that they might have been speculating about the future cost of her care and the astronomical cost of raising children in a single parent family. A multi-billion $ company needs that money paid back to them. That my friend is what is wrong with the world today; people don’t care about people any more, they care about money and WM is just to hungry to care.

Wal-Mart has already picked up almost full cost of the care for Deborah.

Then, her family successfully sued the party who actually caused the incident; so now the family has received about the same amount as was the treatment cost; only it was not the family who paid that cost – it was Wal-Mart. So, I’d think that if the received money was the compensation for the medical costs, then it should go to the one who paid those costs – which was WM.

At which point, I’d speculate, WM has asked the family to compensate – nobody would sue right away. And, I’d further speculate, the family refused because they wanted to keep the money. After which WM sued and won.

So, if the above is right, this is indeed a story about greed – only greed not WM’s.