Flimsy Argument
Connell’s lawyer William Beckery told the newspaper that Connell took no pleasure in suing her nephew, but believed that he “should have known better.”
Sean’s lawyer, Thomas Noniewicz, said what everyone else was thinking: “Kids should be kids. He was an 8-year-old boy being an 8-year-old boy… Sean was not negligent.”
Blame the Insurance Company
Connell said she and her nephew were equally confused as to why she had to sue him in the first place. “I just feel that perhaps it’s the way the legal system is set up, so the insurance companies aren’t necessarily in the spotlight for stepping up and taking responsibility for handling claims [on] properties,” she said.