what do they do with those arms?

Posted on 21. Sep, 2009 by Jill in law school

Professor Contracts was trying today to explain to us the finer points of Worker’s Compensation and indemnification policies, in the context of Allied Steel & Conveyors v. Ford Motor Co.*

Hey, let’s say that this Allied employee is wearing sweatpants — they all wear sweatpants, right? — and he pulls a gun out of his sweatpants and shoots a Ford employee. Do you see that the Ford employee would have a Worker’s Comp claim against Ford? Because he was injured on the job, right?

At this point, Prof. K walks over to the chalkboard and erases one arm of the stick-figure Ford employee he’d drawn earlier.

Let’s say the Ford employee loses his arm. The Allied employee shoots it off. Now, we’ve already determined in our scenario that an arm is worth $2500. [laughter]

Wonder what a leg’s worth? What if he loses both legs? I don’t know, probably $6500? Either that or he’d swell up with gangrene, right? [more laughter]

Now then… hey, I wonder what they do with those arms? You think they take ‘em out back to the smokehouse? [hearty laughter]

Tastes like chicken!

210927 Chicken

*my summary, not necessarily a direct quote

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3 Responses to “what do they do with those arms?”

  1. idwsj 21 September 2009 at 10:55 pm #

    For a second, I thought those chicken pieces were gangrenous limbs.

    I nearly vomited.

    Then I got hungry.

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  2. Shazz 22 September 2009 at 6:17 pm #

    $500K…a limb. I know these things. Allegedly.

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