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Can I claim?

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  • #32
    xabi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,028 ✭✭✭xabi


    Doh, didn't realise this was AK47, new BMW, will I call 999 guy. Troll


  • #33
    B-D-P--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭B-D-P--


    People look at post count before they think someone real right??


  • #34
    Wesser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭Wesser


    OP can you not take responsibility for your own fall and accept that you drank and stumbled over your own feet? why is it someone elses fault?


  • #35
    Misguided1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 215 ✭✭Misguided1


    It is easy to see how this one will play out though.

    Solicitor will argue that the company has a vicarious liability to its employee who wouldn't have fallen over if he hadn't had a drink provided by his boss.

    Has anyone ever known a solicitor to turn down a case because someone fell over their own feet?

    The OP is out for a quick buck and will probably get it. Wonder if they will still have a job at the end of it though.....

    And people question the rising price of insurance in this country.


  • #36
    davo10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,926 ✭✭✭davo10


    Was the op required to drink alcohol I wonder?


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  • #37
    SwD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 137 ✭✭SwD


    davo10 wrote: »
    Was the op required to drink alcohol I wonder?

    Yep. I think the employer had a gun to his head.


  • #38
    Sixtoes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 736 ✭✭✭Sixtoes


    Maybe the OP works as a beer taster.


  • #39
    SwD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 137 ✭✭SwD


    Sixtoes wrote: »
    Maybe the OP works as a beer taster.

    Wait. I do that every weekend and don't get paid!?


  • #40
    davo10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,926 ✭✭✭davo10


    The icing on this particular cake would be if the op actually worked in a pub, you don't do you op?


  • #41
    Masala
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,559 ✭✭✭Masala


    NeedToKnow22 wrote: »
    I had a bad fall at work and had to have surgery. The tricky thing is that it happened after my shift but still on the premises and I had been drinking with my boss.
    Does anyone know if I am still eligible to claim ?

    Eh....what are you thinking of claiming for?? Are u out of work as a consequence??? What medical fees have you incurred??

    Jeez... the worlds gone mad..Ted!


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  • #42
    Minnie Snuggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 609 ✭✭✭Minnie Snuggles


    Just out of interest OP, what injuries did you suffer?


  • #43
    ct5amr2ig1nfhp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,016 ✭✭✭ct5amr2ig1nfhp


    Post-traumatic stress?
    Minnie Snuggles wrote: »
    Just out of interest OP, what injuries did you suffer?


  • #44
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,565 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Sounds to me like there is something more to it and that is reason for claim, you were drinking alone with boss. Is claim pay back for something else


  • #45
    Rezident
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,841 ✭✭✭Rezident


    So you got drunk and fell over on you work premises and you want to sue them? There is literally no hope anymore, we're fu**ed.


  • #46
    Sixtoes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 736 ✭✭✭Sixtoes


    Minnie Snuggles wrote: »
    Just out of interest OP, what injuries did you suffer?

    Spilt his drink.


  • #47
    Cunning Stunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,303 ✭✭✭Cunning Stunt


    Sixtoes wrote: »
    Spilt his drink.

    ..and then slipped on it..


  • #48
    dreamers75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,558 ✭✭✭✭dreamers75


    To the OP yes you are "entitled" to claim.

    There a few cases of people injuring themselves on work nights out and claiming and winning........


  • #49
    davo10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,926 ✭✭✭davo10


    dreamers75 wrote: »
    To the OP yes you are "entitled" to claim.

    There a few cases of people injuring themselves on work nights out and claiming and winning........

    Link? And did they contribute to their own injury by consuming alcohol?

    I suspect there are plenty of cases where the judge ruled that the plaintiff contributed to their injuries by consuming to much alcohol.


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