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More ridiculous injury payouts

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    #62
    wally79
    Registered Users Posts: 2,932 ✭✭✭wally79


    BattleCorp wrote: »
    I don't understand what you are trying to say above.

    Costs would be significant. This case went to trial. Costs in preparing a trial are significant. Legal fees, engineering fees, medical fees etc. Getting to trial stage is expensive. There were lots of witnesses too so costs in this case could easily be in excess of €30k for the defence.

    There are two losers in this case. Us insurance payers because we will end up covering the insurance company's costs, and the plaintiff's solicitors who will probably not get paid for their work.

    Why wouldn't they apply for costs?

    Insurance company has to pay them now anyway

    Why not try and reclaim some of this from the plaintiff?


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    #63
    BattleCorp
    Registered Users Posts: 11,758 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    wally79 wrote: »
    Why wouldn't they apply for costs?

    Insurance company has to pay them now anyway

    Why not try and reclaim some of this from the plaintiff?

    I wholeheartedly agree. The insurance company should have applied for costs. That's what I would do in that situation.

    But here's the problem.

    Supposing I owe costs to the insurance company (€50k). I can't pay it or I won't pay it. So I don't pay it. What option has the insurance company then? They then have to go back to court and spend more money in trying to get me to pay. They may have some success if it's a case of me not bothering to pay. But they'll have zero success and it will be a huge waste of money if I can't pay. It'll end up costing them more.

    That said, I'd still apply for costs and register a debt against the plaintiff just to try and fcuk up his credit rating.


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    #64
    Geuze
    Registered Users Posts: 13,105 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    Another one:

    https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/deceased-drivers-estate-liable-for-womans-ptsd-after-she-saw-partially-decapitated-body-1253706.html?utm_campaign=article&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=web


    Woman arrives on scene of a RTA, in Jan 2017.

    She sees the badly injured body of the driver.

    She rings for help.

    Subsequently, the sues the estate of the deceased driver, and the other vehicle, Bus Eireann, for PTSD.

    The High Court's Mr Justice David Keane awarded her 87k.


    The car insurer, FBD, appealed.

    They lost the appeal.



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    #65
    [Deleted User]
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    if we taxed shamelessness we'd be a great country



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    #66
    Immortal Starlight
    Registered Users Posts: 2,074 ✭✭✭Immortal Starlight


    It’s not often I’m shocked but I am shocked by that. I happened upon a head on collision on a main road near me a few years ago. There was a man lying dead in the road after being thrown from the car and a woman trapped inside who later had to have her arm amputated. Gave a blanket out of my car to put on top of the poor dead man and rang ambulance and guards. Often thought back on it and shuddered but never ever in a hundred million years would I dream of doing that.



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