Comments about ‘Company that sprayed Layton home where girls died agrees to settlement’

TWO children died unnecessarily. I think the fine is way too low and "probation" and retraining are a tiny slap on the wrist. Appalling.
Utah's laws do not favor the consumer. My daughter nearly died of carbon monoxide poisoning in an upscale Avenues apartment while attending college. She lost thousands of dollars in tuition and a full year of school and the law could do nothing for her (we hired a lwayer). The landlord was pushing for the rest of the year's rent. In California people get huge settlements for loss of life like the Toone's experienced. Ridiculous.

I agree with californian. I'm glad that the state of utah has put a price tag of $23,400 on each of the girls. This is just ridiculous! I too am appalled at the law in utah. Shame on the politicians responsible for creatng such a slap on the wrist penalty for incidents like this!!!

"During the two-year probation, each employee is to annually attend 18 hours of pesticide applicator training, undergo a records audit and have no new violations of the Utah Pest Control Act."

Realtors and Mortgage Officers have to undergo 120 hours of education to get their license, and 18 hours of continuing education every two years because they are dealing with "people's most important financial asset."

Seems to me their should be an educational requirement AND a continuing education requirement for an industry that deals with LIVES.

Slow down there everyone... This fine is just the state fine and not the liability settlement. The big settlement will be with the family that lost the children, and not the state which is how it should be. The state shouldn't be the ones getting the money when something horrible like this happens. The family that is affected should.

Please people, don't go around talking about how Utah only values the life of the little children at $23,400 or 18 hours of training because that is simply not true. Don't be distraught Californian because the settlement will probably be just about the same in Utah as it would be in California. We all value life, I'm quite sure we can all agree on that. The article just wasn't very clear in specifying that this was just the state fine and not the liability settlement for the family. This is all just a sad/horrible story.

Just what does the FINE do for these dead kids?
The State makes money.

Dear Bridges: Kind of like the O.J. Simpson murder trials, right?

I think the story was incomplete. Such as: how did the girls die? From what? Did the house get tented and the girls left inside? Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.