Try to anticipate the worst

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Went to Panama City Beach yesterday for "Thunder Beach". For me its a 200 mile round trip. Five miles from returning home I pull up behind a new white Cadillac which is sitting at a stop sign in the left turn lane. The other road at this intersection is a four lane with divider in middle. I'm waiting and wishing that my ride had the same rear light as the Caddy which appears to have a gillizion LED's inside. I then go back to reality and notice that it was clear road to the right, but couldn't see if there was traffic from the left. After a few moments the Caddy began forward motion and I pulled up to the stop line. There are no vehicles visible both directions but the caddy crossed the first two lanes and stopped again in the median. No problem as this is standard procedure at this intersection to look one more time for anything coming from the right. I look left nothing coming. I look right nothing in sight. I watch the Caddy to begin to roll out of median and I take off intending to just make a complete turn without looking right again. As I accelerate I see those gillizion LED's turn bright and the Caddy stops again! It's Oh S*** , run into back of car or lay her down. I chose the second. As I'm approaching pavement with left side of my body and my bike doing the same, I watch the Caddy's lights go off and they continued to turn (never stopping). The Nomads left engine and saddlebag guard along with the upper section of the door scraped to the black plastic. When the front tire hit the curb, it turned and flipped the bike over to it's right side, making a matched set of scrapes on the other guards. Bruised my ribs, hip and left knee. I was actually wearing a half helmet at the time and heard a pretty good thump when my head hit the ground, so the damn things help in minor fall downs.
Lessons learned? As I'm writing this it got me wondering if the Caddy driver intentionally pulled the stopping stunt, probably not but makes me even more grouchy about cager's. Never underestimate how quickly one must make critical choices even when it is apparently safe.