This matter has been resolved through the insurance carriers, and we hope the settlement will assist Sang Lan in the coming years. AOL Time Warner was later dropped as a defendant. A message for comment left with the insurance companies was not immediately returned.
Hai said Sang attended a three-hour settlement meeting on Monday where the terms of the deal were reached. According to the lawsuit, Sang was left paralyzed from the mid-chest down after she fractured and dislocated two vertebrae and injured her spinal cord when someone walked into the vault area after she pushed off from the vault and removed a mat before she landed. It noted that celebrities including Leonardo DiCaprio, Celine Dion and Christopher Reeve visited her and offered support after the accident.
Then-Vice President Al Gore and his family visited her in the hospital. Previously, her health care was paid for only in the United States. Notify me of new posts via email. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Skip to content about advertise contact. The three insurance firms had previously paid Sang only for fees incurred in the US and not in China … In the deal, the three insurers agreed to give an undisclosed amount of money to Sang in addition to the insurance she will receive.
Likely her lawyers expect to settle out of court. Like this: Like Loading Published by. Rick Mc Career gymnastics coach who loves the outdoors, and the internet. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:.
Email required Address never made public. Name required. Next Next post: John Wooden on true success. Follow Following. In , Chinese gymnast Sang Lan suffered a similar fate on the vault. Sang Lan was paralyzed while performing a practice vault at the Goodwill Games. Widespread concern about these vaulting disasters helped lead to a major change in the future of gymnasts' safety.
The thin vaulting horse that was easy for gymnasts to miss mid-air was replaced with a much broader vaulting table, giving gymnasts more room for error if their hands miss the mark.
Simone Biles competes at the Rio Olympics. The vaulting table is now larger and safer than in decades past. When gymnastics gets too dangerous. Of course, catastrophic injuries such as paralysis are rare. But many gymnasts suffer a wide array of injuries as they test the limits of gravity and physics. Biles gets 2 more moves named after her. Sang also said that despite her physical difficulties, she would not give up any chance to protect her legal rights by resorting to law, and all she will do all she could to reach justice for herself.
Arriving in New York last week, Sang plans to stay in the United Stated for about two months, during which physical therapy rehabilitation training will also be scheduled for her hands and amyotrophic lower legs by her doctor.
Back in China, people reacted differently to the case. Some expressed their support and sympathy while others accused Sang of being greedy in seeking compensation and ungrateful in suing people who claimed to have taken good care of Sang after the accident. Twitter Facebook Myspace Yahoo!
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