Girl (5) awarded €50k for tripping over Ikea trolley as toddler

Take the family to IKEA. Eat meatballs. Ask your toddlers to go find a shopping trolley and stumble over it. Get €50k compensation per child.

Simples.

Kimbot

samih wrote: »

Take the family to IKEA. East meatballs. Ask your toddlers to go find a shopping trolley and stumble over it. Get €50k compensation per child.

Simples.

So how recently have you done this?

Unfortunately somebody beat me to it:

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/girl-5-awarded-50k-for-tripping-over-ikea-trolley-as-toddler-35432219.html

me_irl

It's like inverse clickbait!

darkpagandeath

So the child was not unattended ?

Kimbot

darkpagandeath wrote: »

So the child was not unattended ?

Article fails to say that tbh but I would imagine the child was running free while their parent looked around.

AudreyHepburn

€50k for a little scar?? Compo Culture gone mad.

Surely the parents have to take a large amount of responsibility for not keeping an eye on their daughter?

I suppose it's easier just to exaggerate situations and blame other people for your own mistakes.

darkpagandeath

jonnycivic wrote: »

Article fails to say that tbh but I would imagine the child was running free while their parent looked around.

Aye not out of the realms of normal behaviour. Begs the Question how it's the responsibility of IKEA to babysit ?

Mint Sauce

Wonder is it too late for me to clam for that trip on an escalator 20 odd years ago. Have never got over that 1cm scar to my shin.

SEPT 23 1989

I presumed the child had lost a leg when i read the OP

darkpagandeath

http://www.lawyer.ie/personal-injuries/compensation-calculator/

Cuddlesworth

Seems like personal responsibility isn't really big on that judges list.

http://www.ablesolicitors.ie/court-awards-e100000-for-facial-injuries-from-nightclub-incident/

darkpagandeath

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

Seems like personal responsibility isn't really big on that judges list.

http://www.ablesolicitors.ie/court-awards-e100000-for-facial-injuries-from-nightclub-incident/

Having a fight and got a claim ??

Could have been a loss of 10-15 milk teeth perhaps on top of the scar?

me_irl

me_irl wrote: »

It's like inverse clickbait!

You'd keep the family on meatballs and sofas for years.

darkpagandeath

samih wrote: »

Could have been a loss of 10-15 milk teeth perhaps on top of the scar?

Aye the stress of it could have resulted in milk teeth falling out.

Cuddlesworth

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Having a fight and got a claim ??

Same judge. Blokes get kicked out of nightclub, start fighting in the street, guy decides to break it up and gets knocked into a glass door beside the club. He sues the club and wins.

scamalert

nice turn on thread cheap day turned in how scum and law system making living in this country.op go bumping trolleys or smth,then claim injury and buy a house for you future wife to be.

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AudreyHepburn wrote: »

€50k for a little scar?? Compo Culture gone mad.

Surely the parents have to take a large amount of responsibility for not keeping an eye on their daughter?

I suppose it's easier just to exaggerate situations and blame other people for your own mistakes.

How is that comp culture? Do you honestly believe that Ireland is defined by this act?

€50K is an absurd amount in my opinion, but I am not not a judge.

Graces7

Did not someone try it on with tesco a while ago? Loaded two big children in her trolley,ie overloaded it, then went sideways down the ramp.... They caught it on cctv and it was thrown out of court.

AudreyHepburn

Charleigh Lazy Frisbee wrote: »

How is that comp culture? Do you honestly believe that Ireland is defined by this act?

€50K is an absurd amount in my opinion, but I am not not a judge.

Claiming €50,000 for a tiny scar that will cause the child no problems at all during her lifetime whilst absolving yourself of all responsibility regarding the child is Compo Culture at it's finest.

When or where did I say Ireland is defined by Compo Culture? I do think it's rife here, but we are not defined by it at all.

Mr. FoggPatches

samih wrote: »

Take the family to IKEA. Eat meatballs. Ask your toddlers to go find a shopping trolley and stumble over it. Get €50k compensation per child.

Simples.

Or....
Go to your best friends house, take his dad's Ferrari into town, go to the top of the Guinness storehouse, visit the stock market while hilariously avoiding your friend's dad, go to an art museum, have something to eat in dax, watch some rugger, take part than n an Irish water protest, swim in your gf's pool, drop Ferrari back to your mate's house.
2:50 at xtravision.

biko

Or form a band after being released from Mountjoy Prison to get money for a pilgrimage to Lourdes, if your name is Rats

iptba

<name> was aged just two when the accident [..] happened in the Dublin store in 2013.

Finbar Fox SC, for the child, said she suffered a laceration of the day and has a 7mm scar at the inner angle of her right eye as a result of the accident.

It was not a significant injury, the court heard.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/dublin-girl-5-awarded-50-000-after-tripping-over-ikea-trolley-1.2967090

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/girl-5-awarded-50k-for-tripping-over-ikea-trolley-as-toddler-35432219.html

I don't know this family and haven't seen the scar but 7 mm is very short. It's 0.7 cm or 0.28 inch. We all have to pay extra because of such cases. Also they can cause restrictions e.g. children not being allowed to run in schools. I would prefer if there were fewer of such claims particularly at such payment levels.

DrumSteve

''tis a pity, I only put my pitchfork in the shed.

iptba

iptba wrote: »

Also they can cause restrictions e.g. children not being allowed to run in schools...

Trip and fall cases in schools, crèches etc. are notoriously difficult.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/student-who-sued-school-after-hockey-slip-has-lost-her-case-35300307.html

The Raptor

Doesn't toddlers fall everywhere they go? I need a kid.

kupus

what % does the lawyer get. Answer that, and then you have your answer to the compo culture.

The_Valeyard

The Raptor wrote: »

Doesn't toddlers fall everywhere they go? I need a kid.

They do seem to have problems with their arch nemeses Dr. Gravity alright.

uck51js9zml2yt

The Raptor wrote: »

Doesn't toddlers fall everywhere they go? I need a kid.

I have 2 I can give you..Pm me and we can arrange.






For the sake of those with no sense of humour the above was not a serious offer.....I'd want payment**;)





** Not true either

Alkers

Rod Munch wrote:

To break it down by the letter of the insurance law, once you take ownership of something then it becomes your property, therefore you own it.

iptba wrote:

I don't know this family and haven't seen the scar but 7 mm is very short. It's 0.7 cm or 0.28 inch. We all have to pay extra because of such cases. Also they can cause restrictions e.g. children not being allowed to run in schools. I would prefer if there were fewer of such claims particularly at such payment levels.

While 0.7cm may sound small, it would be quite large on the face of a two year old. Also, we don't know what the scar is going look like when the child grows up. I had a friend in school who got stitches as a baby and the scar grew with him as he got older.

Samuel T. Cogley

iptba wrote: »

We all have to pay extra because of such cases.

Pay a little bit more again and not end up with such sh1t furniture.

Donal55

...a failure to maintain clear access'.
Im not surprised. From my experience there's never enough staff on duty, long lines of customers in queues, and pallets and pallet trucks lying idle all over the place.

I might take a dive myself. Could do with a new merc or jag.

.

darkpagandeath

Was there not a thread about this already ?

Samuel T. Cogley

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Was there not a thread about this already ?

About three a week.

iptba

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Was there not a thread about this already ?

I did do a quick search before posting and couldn't see anything. But maybe I missed it?

I also searched for "litigious" on Boards but no obvious existing thread showed up the post to.

Samuel T. Cogley

iptba wrote: »

I did do a quick search before posting and couldn't see anything. But maybe I missed it?

I also searched for "litigious" on Boards but no obvious existing thread showed up the post to.

Here's an interesting one for you OP.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057703483

nullzero

If this little girl is anything like my 5 year old daughter she'll have it all spent on Shopkins by Christmas.

Help!!!!

Who was supervising the child?

jimmycrackcorm

The Raptor wrote: »

Doesn't toddlers fall everywhere they go? I need a kid.

Can someone calculate how many kids I need to fund my retirement.

Samuel T. Cogley

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

Can someone calculate how many kids I need to fund my retirement.

Selling them whole or harvesting organs?

mdwexford

Sounds fair enough to me.

Trolleys and stuff are always all over the place in IKEA.

listermint

mdwexford wrote: »

Sounds fair enough to me.

Trolleys and stuff are always all over the place in IKEA.

So are bad parents who let their kids run amok.



Just sayin

uck51js9zml2yt

mdwexford wrote: »

Sounds fair enough to me.

Trolleys and stuff are always all over the place in IKEA.

Next thing we'll see if customers being chained to their trolleys.

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Simona1986 wrote: »

While 0.7cm may sound small, it would be quite large on the face of a two year old. Also, we don't know what the scar is going look like when the child grows up. I had a friend in school who got stitches as a baby and the scar grew with him as he got older.

So sue her parents for neglecting her and contributing to her disfigurement

Widdershins

That's bonkers. The country has become claim crazy

mdwexford

listermint wrote: »

So are bad parents who let their kids run amok.



Just sayin

Run amok or just walking around where there are trolleys and baskets left as tripping hazards all over the place. It's the shops responsibility to have the place tidy. They are negligent if not.

mdwexford

Ishaan Careful Crow wrote: »

Next thing we'll see if customers being chained to their trolleys.

LexieOnRale wrote: »

So sue her parents for neglecting her and contributing to her disfigurement

Good nonsense posts, well done.

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mdwexford wrote: »

Good nonsense posts, well done.

Why is holding her parents responsible nonsense??

Samuel T. Cogley

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Why is holding her parents responsible nonsense??

It's not but here you have three parties. The party suing, were doing it on behalf of the toddler. The toddler had no contributory negligence so the award can't be reduced, like it would be if it was you or I.

It's important to note the parents didn't get this money, they got €200 of it on the day. It will be administered for the benefit of the child, as best it can be.

LexieOnRale

LexieOnRale wrote: »

So sue her parents for neglecting her and contributing to her disfigurement

But the shop was perfectly entitled to join the parents and argue contributory negligence But it would be just a waste of money. The issue is negligence, and "not being responsible enough" is not the same as negligence. Parents are entitled to expect that a shop won't leave anything lying around that might trip up a child and by the sounds of it nearly take their eye out, or leave them with what could be life long scarring on their face.