Cruise reached a more than $8M settlement with dragged SF pedestrian

Hopefully it's not an Idiocracy-like hospital, but being a city/county public hospital it probably ain't a Good Sam or hotel-like Stanford with tasty patient food and painfully-nice staff. I just think the name comes across absurdly ostentatious "philanthropy" and the domain name is fucking ridiculous in length. Recall how SJ did (and others traditionally did) philanthropy quietly so as not to seem like guilt alleviation or hunting for approval or legacy.

The woman's injuries were clearly severe by the length of her hospital stay, but I'm not sure you can tell that by the size of the settlement.

This is the incident whose subsequent cover-up has cost Cruise literally billions of dollars in lost funding and permits. A savvy lawyer promising to drag it into the public eye for however long it takes the courts to rule could easily get fuck-you sized settlements regardless of the actual liability because Cruise/GM want to stop the media circus at almost any cost.

Anecdotal of course, but even when I accidentally ran over a squirrel I _immediately_ noticed. Running a _person_ over and _dragging them_... well I think I would realize.

Obviously this is some serious arm-chair speculation so take it with a grain of salt.