$500,000 awarded in wrongful death lawsuit of Marvin Schur, elderly man who froze to death in Bay Ci

[Bozita]

Source: The Bay City Times

$500,000 awarded in wrongful death lawsuit of Marvin Schur, elderly man who froze to death in Bay City home
Published: Monday, August 22, 2011, 9:45 AM Updated: Monday, August 22, 2011, 11:55 AM
By Cole Waterman | The Bay City Times


BAY CITY — A settlement of a half million dollars has been reached in a wrongful death lawsuit of Marvin E. Schur, a Bay City man who froze to death in his home in 2009.

Schur’s family filed the suit against Bay City and Bay City Electric Light & Power in October 2009. Schur, a 93-year-old World War II veteran, was found dead in his home at 1600 S. Chilson St. on Jan. 17, 2009. Autopsy results indicated he froze to death.

The city had turned off Schur’s electricity due to unpaid bills.

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[provis99]

1. avoid the comments section; sickening right wing assholes...

[rpannier]

2. i do agree with some of the posters

I'd like to know what his family members were doing while this man froze to death
Did they live in the area?
If so, why didn't they check up on him?
They each got 6 grand.
I'm glad the hospital got the bulk of that money.

[provis99]

3. I told you not to read them!!!

Now don't think of an elephant!

[skamaria]

5. Favorite movie.

nt

[Turbineguy]

4. Right wingers

don't understand what a WWII veteran is. They don't know why that war took place. After all, Mussolini made the trains run on time. What's wrong with that? We made war on somebody who made the trains run on time. Typical government operation.

[rpannier]

6. Two things

I am starting to see and hear the Birch lunatics with their, "Japan bombed us, not Germany. Why did we attack Germany?" meme again. Totally disregarding the fact that Germany did declare war on us after Pearl Harbor.

He made the trains run on time. (actually he didn't) But if anyone says that to me, I'll say, "You mean the National Government made the trains more efficient, not the private sector?"

[Confusious]

7. It was Hitler who made the trains run on time

and I'm so slow, it took me 20 years of reading and learning about WW2 to put 2 and 2 together.