Who owns it?
I would think that this is pretty straightforward. The owners, after all, sustained the damage when it hit. Why wouldn’t they also accrue any benefits?
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Who owns it?
I would think that this is pretty straightforward. The owners, after all, sustained the damage when it hit. Why wouldn’t they also accrue any benefits?
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It should be straightforward, assuming that the Doctors’ lease doesn’t grant them meteoric rights…
I’m with Titus, unless the lease specifies that leasor has ‘mineral rights’, the doctors jumped the gun on donating ‘their’ meteorite.
Having said that, isn’t this typical. I’ll bet the building owners want to sell the space rock, then they’ll try to charge the doctors for damaging the ceiling!
I am awaiting the lawsuit where the doctors sue the landlord for not having provided a meteorite-proof roof and thus exposing them to a foreseeable and avoidable risk to their lives, as well as the mental stress of experiencing the impact. The article clearly states that meteorite falls are a regular event.
Probabilities? What does that have to do with it? We’re talking personal-injury law, here.
Wow a 4.5 billion years in orbit until it was finally let into the exam room. Talk about some horrendous wait times at that clinic….
And what of damage repair? Is the building insured? Does the policy cover all non-flood ‘Acts of God?’ (which I assume this, um, falls under)