Kerching - goldmines payday again

Darc19

Another big big win for the snowflake generation.
Kid gets a cut at crèche

Mammy gets €32500 and tells the court she thought it was "on the light side"

What a f#@kin joke.

The treatment for the injury? A feckin plaster.


32k cos you need a feckin plaster on a cut.


What a effing SCAM.

Guess who now pays the 32,500 and probably 30k costs for the complicit legal team - us mugs.


If FF promised to end this legal industry scam within 100 days of taking office, they'd win a landslide as FG have shown that they couldn't give a rats arse about this legal profession induced daylight robbery

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/boy-2-who-fell-while-washing-his-hands-in-crche-bathroom-awarded-32500-damages-38574041.html

dxhound2005

Darc19 wrote: »

Another big big win for the snowflake generation.
Kid gets a cut at crèche

Mammy gets €32500 and tells the court she thought it was "on the light side"

What a f#@kin joke.

The treatment for the injury? A feckin plaster.


32k cos you need a feckin plaster on a cut.


What a effing SCAM.

Guess who now pays the 32,500 and probably 30k costs for the complicit legal team - us mugs.


If FF promised to end this legal industry scam within 100 days of taking office, they'd win a landslide as FG have shown that they couldn't give a rats arse about this legal profession induced daylight robbery

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/boy-2-who-fell-while-washing-his-hands-in-crche-bathroom-awarded-32500-damages-38574041.html

I don't want politicians meddling with the justice system. What did win them a landslide, last time they were in government on their own, was abolishing property tax, bin charges, and water charges (domestic rates) and road/motor tax. That's the sort of stuff people want.

gctest50

Whoever brought in the light plastic stool should be battered to death with it

Typical sub-standard creche muppetry

.,.......had been standing on a light plastic stool while washing his hands and had fallen off it,

Guy:Incognito

dxhound2005 wrote: »

That's the sort of stuff people want.

Yeah, short sighted people.

Sure we can get all the tax take from 1 place, nice and easy. What could possibly go wrong.......

Darc19

gctest50 wrote: »

Whoever brought in the light plastic stool should be battered to death with it

Typical sub-standard creche muppetry

.,.......had been standing on a light plastic stool while washing his hands and had fallen off it,

32k for a cut that needed nothing more than a bandaid?

And mammy thought she should get more!!

Ffs.

Guy:Incognito

gctest50 wrote: »

Whoever brought in the light plastic stool should be battered to death with it

Typical sub-standard creche muppetry

So fine the creche the €32,000 and give it to charity.

Wonder will the same amount of people still need "justice" if theres no payout at the end?

Force Carrier

She left him at the gate with a kiss,
Costly creche surely to mind little Lucas,
Precarious towers built to reach a sink,
Who could foresee his head getting a dink.

cocaliquid

Force Carrier wrote: »

She left him at the gate with a kiss,
Costly creche surely to mind little Lucas,
Precarious towers built to reach a sink,
Who could foresee his head getting a dink.

Poor Lucas could have been brain damaged. Surely there should have been children sinks installed at the right height. Wonders does any official group do health and safety checks with creches.

Force Carrier

cocaliquid wrote: »

Poor Lucas could have been brain damaged. Surely there should have been children sinks installed at the right height. Wonders does any official group do health and safety checks with creches.

A laceration that would for ever haunt him,
Mummy paging through the Book of Quantum,
Right height children's sinks are a must,
And for that their business went bust.

hatrickpatrick

I’m usually the first person to advocate for changing the law to reduce the duty of care for the business and place more responsibility on the customer, but in this case IMO the ruling actually is warranted. For a business designed specifically to cater for children to lack bathroom facilities fitted and installed for use by children, and to therefore require any form of crude “ad hoc” solution such as this, is clearly unacceptable and falls well below the standards we should be willing to accept as a society.

Do I think the kid and / or his family deserve the giant payout? No. However, as a punitive deterrent to makeshift idiocy like this, I’m completely in favour.

Potential-Monke

I don't have kids, so this won't affect me (can't see how the taxpayer will pay this, it's a private creche no?), but if people continue like this, there won't be any creches left. Wonder will mammy sue herself when little Lucas hops his forehead off the terracotta tiles in the kitchen when he falls off his chair trying to wash his hands...

TuringBot47

Potential-Monke wrote: »

...if people continue like this, there won't be any creches left.

Creches make plenty of money.
I imagine it's the guts of €1000 a month to mind someones kid all day.

So don't worry about that business model.

Edgware

Hasnt the little ****er suffered enough by being christened Lucas?
With a name like that it wont be the last injury he will receive in his schooldays

cnocbui

This country should copy NZ. A national accident insurer and a list of injuries with fixed payments. None of this people people to court time wasting.

I wouldn't have awarded €3.20, let alone the idiocy the court engaged in.

Floppybits

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

I’m usually the first person to advocate for changing the law to reduce the duty of care for the business and place more responsibility on the customer, but in this case IMO the ruling actually is warranted. For a business designed specifically to cater for children to lack bathroom facilities fitted and installed for use by children, and to therefore require any form of crude “ad hoc” solution such as this, is clearly unacceptable and falls well below the standards we should be willing to accept as a society.

Do I think the kid and / or his family deserve the giant payout? No. However, as a punitive deterrent to makeshift idiocy like this, I’m completely in favour.

I agree with you 100% on this. To have a business that is looking after kids and not to have the correct facilities installed to cater for the kids is unacceptable. If sends a warning to other creches to install child sized facilities all the better.

LirW

TuringBot47 wrote: »

Creches make plenty of money.
I imagine it's the guts of €1000 a month to mind someones kid all day.

So don't worry about that business model.

Where I live in the sticks it actually is a problem that childcare businesses are closing, especially very small facilities. My daughter is in a creche 25 minutes drive away because it was the closest that did full-time places. In the last 3 years most small playgroups closed, there's only one lady left doing it and she is booked up to the hilt and told me she gets calls weekly from desperate parents not being able to find minders.
My full-time place costs around 300 less than a place in Dublin but closing playschools and creches in rural areas are a big problem, especially if you need a full-time place because the few that are left, don't do them.

Insurance is a big elephant in the room.

cnocbui

Floppybits wrote: »

I agree with you 100% on this. To have a business that is looking after kids and not to have the correct facilities installed to cater for the kids is unacceptable. If sends a warning to other creches to install child sized facilities all the better.

Oh, please. Many doctors and dentists operate out of barely converted domestic houses, rather than purpose built premises.

BeerWolf

I would probably be rich had I sustained some of the multiple injuries I got in my childhood today... /sigh

Actually, scratch that... my parents would have. And I probably wouldn't be aware they had a payday.

Guy:Incognito

Potential-Monke wrote: »

I don't have kids, so this won't affect me (can't see how the taxpayer will pay this, it's a private creche no?), but if people continue like this, there won't be any creches left. Wonder will mammy sue herself when little Lucas hops his forehead off the terracotta tiles in the kitchen when he falls off his chair trying to wash his hands...

The insurance will pay out, so yeah , it affects everyone.

LirW

cnocbui wrote: »

Oh, please. Many doctors and dentists operate out of barely converted domestic houses, rather than purpose built premises.

But they still have to invest a lot of money to convert medical offices to patients needs and ensure they can work properly.
You wouldn't open a business to cater to physically disabled people that's not accessible.

I think everyone agrees that the payout isn't warranted but for the money people shell out for childcare they can expect that the facilities are catering to the need of a group of small kids.
And before this comes up, households aren't businesses and this has nothing to do with the issue.

Floppybits

cnocbui wrote: »

Oh, please. Many doctors and dentists operate out of barely converted domestic houses, rather than purpose built premises.

I didn't realise that doctors and dentists were providing childcare services as well in their practices. Must mention this next time I'm at the doctor.

hatrickpatrick

cnocbui wrote: »

Oh, please. Many doctors and dentists operate out of barely converted domestic houses, rather than purpose built premises.

And if they're not up to an adequate safety standard then they absolutely shouldn't be allowed to do so.

blinding

When the Eu gets its Army in Lightning Mode they will put a stop to this sort of thing ; Careful Now .

Ferm001

Can a child claim against parents home insurance if he / she gets a cut or bump in same sort of circumstances ??? Only a matter of time.

Church on Tuesday

Mammy literally saw Euro signs once she heard what happened to the child.

It's not so much Snowflake behavior (although there is plenty of that nonsense around) rather a compo culture that has thrived in this country for quite some time now.

This outcome will hardly dissuade people from taking the piss.

SEPT 23 1989

People like that have no shame

Your Face

Seems a bit stupid to have a two-year old up on a light stool washing their hands in a sink.
Also it was a laceration to the head so probably not effectively treated by a plaster. Head injuries on a two-year old are to be taken seriously.

The mother still comes across as opportunistic though and the payout is high.