YOU’RE A GOOD GUY, SULLY ERNA
Monday, January 4th, 2010 at 11:00am by Axl Rosenberg
Let’s say you’re Sully Erna. You’re the lead singer of a God awful band but you basically won the lottery, since there are enough ree-rees in the world to buy your music and make you a gajillionaire. How do you celebrate? Dineyland? Hookers n’ blow? How about you pull a Vince Neil?
So. Erna has reached a settlement with a 27 year old girl, Lindsay Taylor, and her parents, Elaine and Jeffrey, following a 2007 car accident that left Taylor with “a severe traumatic brain injury.” Erna, who left the accident unscathed, rammed the Taylor’s with his Hummer, and while he’s blaming the crash on another driver and – I shit you not – the design of the road, that hasn’t stopped him from agreeing to pay $3.3 million dollars, plus thousands of dollars a month in additional fees. Here’s the complete breakdown of what Erna will pay, according to The Eagle-Tribune:
The petition for the settlement, signed by attorneys on all sides of the case, calls for the defendants and/or their insurers to pay an immediate cash payment of $3.3 million, broken down as follows:
$1.8 million for attorneys fees
$118,886 for legal expenses
$119,023 to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
$29,628 to the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance
$2,505 to Northeast Rehabilitation Hospital
$1,126 to Radiology-HMFP at Beth Israel
$973 to the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
$1 million to Lindsay Taylor
$172,263 to Jeffrey Taylor
$72,263 to Elaine Taylor
The settlement also calls for a series of monthly payments to Lindsay Taylor for decades to come. They include:
$4,637 per month, guaranteed for five years, beginning in February and increasing at 3 percent compounding annually.
$5,492 per month, guaranteed for 14 years, beginning in 2015 and increasing at 3 percent compounding annually.
$9,659 per month for life, guaranteed for 11 years, beginning in 2029 and increasing at 3 percent compounding annually.
The settlement also calls for Elaine Taylor to collect $710 per month for life, guaranteed for 20 years, beginning in 2017.
I guess it’s good to be right, no?
Sully Erna. Still a class act.
-AR
[via Blabbermouth]
IM DOIN THE BEST I EVA DID, IM DOIN THE BEST THAT I CAN, BETTA FUCKIN GO AWAY!
I think that God just smacked him across his long horse face!
If anything this should make you guys mad because now Godsmack will definitely keep making albums to pay off debt.
Also, sad story. The girl, I mean.
I can just see the image now;
A courtroom with various snapshots like in a “C.S.I.” episode and all of a sudden the door opens and then the pouding drums and opening distorted guitar riff….Sully Erna walks in…
‘EERRAAUUGGHHHH!!!”
Judge: Um, this isn’t the Navy commecial mr. Erna.
Sully: WAIT ANOTHER MINUTE, CAN’T YOU SEE WHAT THE PAIN HAS FUCKING DONE TO ME!!!
Judge: Um, maybe you can explain to the prosecuter why you got into an automobile accident
Sully: I’M NOT THE ONE WHO’S SO FAR AWAY THAT I FEEL THE SNAKE BIGHT INTO MY VEINS!!!!
Judge: Mr. Erna, are you under the influence of anything at the moment?
Sully: I’M DOING THE BEST I EVER DID, NOW GO AWAY!!!!
Sully’s Lawyer: Um, Judge my client is still in a state of deep emotional shock….
Sully: (cuting in) I STAND ALONE!!!!
You can only imagine the rest of the scene panning out.
hahaha nice.
It’s too easy.
I recognize some of those as Godsmack lyrics. The others I assume are as well. Case in point…you know too many Godsmack lyrics. Funny though :)
Haha… awesome.
Metalsucks should give you a prize for this lol
lmao!!!!
lmfao owned.
I’m not a Sully fan, and I’m not a Godsmack fan, but this is just another case of victims winning the insurance lottery, and taking someone for every dime they possibly can.
This is absolutely ridiculous. The victim made excellent recovery and is able to hold a valid driver’s license. Must have not been that bad a brain injury after all. Also, she was unemployed before the accident so really didn’t lose any income as a result of the accident.
Yeah, it sucks for the girl now that she’s (functionally, whatever that means) deaf and perhaps a bit traumatized by the experience, but this is american greed at its worst. Sully got ripped off.
My brother had encephalitis (a viral blood infection which causes swelling in the brain, can be caused by a mosquito bite) a few years back. During that time he regressed to an almost infant-like state; he couldn’t do anything without supervision. He’s recovered to the point that he now has a driver’s license, a career, and can take care of himself, but he still has some slight cognitive and motor issues and struggles with it daily. His brain function will never be what it was.
My point: just because she has recovered enough to pass a driving test doesn’t mean she is “all better.” If it was found that he was the cause of the crash then he owes her that money.
just because she has recovered enough to pass a driving test doesn’t mean she is “all better.”
Exactly. Have you seen some of the people that can acquire drivers licenses? You don’t have to be a brain scientist to get one. Hell, Sully Erna has one!
On another note, I think these numbers are kind of stupid because can Godsmack make that kind of money every year after 2029 to pay the 9k a month? I imagine the insurance only covers so much. Ambulance chasers have ruined the insurance companies, health care and peoples lives. What ever happened to the days when accidents were accidents and people didn’t get sued for ridiculous amounts of money.
@Timbodini: I totally get what you’re saying. I’m absolutely not saying and did not mean to say that I think the girl is “all better.” Far from. I am sure she will be affected by this accident for years to come, if not her entire life. What I read in that story is that something unfortunate happened to someone, and given who it was that did it to them, they ended up only seeing dollar signs in their eyes over it.
I don’t believe that just because something bad happens to someone that they should automatically get a free pass through life as a result. Because that’s exactly what happened. Provided this chick isn’t financially retarded, she’ll never have to hold down a job that she never had at the time she was injured in the first place. And if you can’t live on that kind of money per month, then you’ve got some kind of other bad habit to boot. Should Sully pay her medical fees? Yes. Should Sully pay her legal fees? Probably. Should Sully help her get through other expenses that she has on the road to recovery? It would be the kind thing to do. Should Sully have to pay outrageous monthly fees for the rest of this chicks life so that she can coast through life simply because of one unfortunate incident? Absolutely not.
I like Godsmack, but I would agree that most of the people in that band are dicks.
IM OK WITH MY WHISKEY HANGOVER!
very insightfull lyrics, This band sucks and He is an annoying piece of wannabe trash
The nineties called they want there nu metal back
Their* nu-metal back.
Did anyone ever notice that Godsmack has a lot of songs in which one of the dominant lyrics is something to the effect of “go away”? Sully must really like his privacy… I think their first album had four different songs like that.
Yes I have noticed that. In fact their first album had FIVE songs that adressed the “go away/keep away” theme, and it is also interesting to note that 8 out of the 11 songs (that contained lyrics) used the word “away.” I have seen Godsmack once about ten years ago, and ever since I have been doing Sully a favor…staying away from him. Godsmack blows.
And the lawyers clean up again with $1.8 million of that.
That’s another crime.
that’s the biggest crime of all. scumfuck worthless assholes.
He got raped!
the only people that got ripped off were all the people who bought godsmack albums. so now that he owes all this money, hes going to call apon his legions of ree ree fans to help pay this debt. have fun paying that money when all your going to get out of it is some shitty music. and one last thing please dont refer to it as nu metal. for one its not metal anything, its abunch of commercial shit. obviously since it was put in a commercial. stop giving talentless tards money for their talentless “music”
Hmmm… You used “apon” instead of “upon” and you’re calling OTHER people retarded? Ain’t that just the pot callin the kettle black?
does it really matter if i use perfect grammer on a blog website? and yes i am retarted.
This man is Trash. He just recently trashed Motley crue about acting like, and pulling “Rockstar garbage” and now this? Wow. T>O>O>L B>A>G.
Motley Crue IS Rockstar Garbage.
Nerds judge you. NERDS CONDEMN YOU, GOD DAMN IT! You’ll never be a knight now, you pecker clot. LOL funny..now she is gettin what he caused, however all that money does not buy a human life, what is she would have been killed in that accident? would that be still a rip off? I beth each of u would have done the same or even ask for more, I wuld have left that dude in pieces, no home, no nothing
Are you the girl? Cause you type and spell like you’re kind of brain damaged.
Attorneys are parasites, fuck them, fuck Sully, fuck California, fuck the judicial system.
Sucks for the girl, but if that’s all it takes to be set for life I guess I’m going to go find Lady Gaga driving around and have her rear end me and say I’ve got neck pains, see where that gets me.
Don’t know why you’d “fuck California” as the accident occurred in Massachusetts.
Because California deserves it.
I agree . Fuck California.
Totally, fuck anyone place with weather in the mid 70s the first week in January.
Yeah, our weather is nice here. Fuck you guys too!
why are her parents gettting money if she is an adult? That to me is bullshit. Unless it was there car or something, but no car/suv is worth over a million bucks
btw the dude she was with must have been a godsmack fan. He didnt sue
I’m going to file for a settlement against Erna for raping my ears.
I think we should make that a class action lawsuit.
AHAHAHAHAH I literally laughed out loud.
shit, I want to be rammed into by a drunken asshole millionaire. I already have brain trauma just from hearing godsmack songs on the radio anyways.
Well, I remember in an older post someone mentioning that they weren’t sure about his character–how he acted as a person. And while I had no fucking idea who this guy was before reading this post (and following the links to the older post), it’s obvious that he’s a fucking idiot. THE ROAD CONSTRUCTION? Yeah… that just smells so strongly of stupidity it’s ridiculous.
Are there any lawyers/law students here, or maybe anybody that’s been involved in a similar settlement that can shed some light on how this worked out? I can’t imagine that if any of us non-celebrities here were in Sully’s shoes, we’d wind up in such a dilly of a pickle. Is our legal system really so corrupt that when you show up to the bargaining table, they just say “give us what ya got”? I mean, clearly it is, but on paper, what do they say to justify it?
People that drive Hummers seem to be assholes in general. Also those pretentious Cadillac Escalades, especailly the pearl colored ones with spinning rims. Assholes, I tell you guys! This middle aged woman who drops kids off at my daughter’s school drives one of the pearl colored Escalades with the spinning rims, and her car alone makes me want to slap her.
Did anyone notice who the real winners were?
“$1.8 million for attorneys fees”
fuck the world, and fuck the girl, fuck her family, fuck sully, fuck all of you, and FUCK WHY DONT I GET 4 GRAND A MONTH FOR NOTHING? THIS GIRL CAN SAFELY LIFE A FREE REGULAR LIFE
i swear to god, if i ever see this taylor bitch at a club, partying, dancing, blowing cash, i’d fuckin JERSHEY SHORE HER ASS
Great so she could sue you also.