Boy gets 20k for walking into bollard

Another one yesterday which a retail store assistant tripped over a cardboard box in a store room and walked away with a payout

Is it me or are these sort of claims somewhat more prevalent from residents of certain parts of the city? Are such people clumsler or accident prone?

Disproportionate amount of accidents and general clumsiness in certain areas of West and North Dublin.

Without opening articles, you can guess where

beertons wrote: »

If she ever takes him to the Cliff's of Moher, he's a goner for sure!

Yeah but think of the €€€€.

Same judge gave some bint €24k for falling over a box yesterday, took €4K away for contributory negligence cause she wasn’t looking where she was going. So if she was negligent why give her a reward of €24k FFS.

fritzelly wrote: »

If it wasn't real you wouldn't believe it
Your Honour there was no signs saying beware of lamp poles (and who hasn't done that!)

These cunce would probably walk into the Sign and make a claim

Can I sue for the time I tripped on the Escalators 30 years ago. The small scar on my shin still haunts me to this day.

Well it doesn't really, but Allders Department store does not have to know that.

My 3 year old banged his head recently in aldi and when i was running over to him i slipped on frozen peas that some ar$ehole had obviously burst a bag open and left lying. Straight down on my knee and was limping the following day.
Did it dawn on me to sue? No because i was not watching my child sufficiently otherwise it wouldn't have happened. Man beside me told me to stay down and called me "an ee-git" when i got up.

There's a local business near us that has closed down in the last couple of weeks. I used to go to school with the guy who runs it, they used to employ 5 people full-time.

I was chatting him recently and he said they just couldn't afford the insurance premiums anymore, apparently the have gone crazy-high in the last few years.

These ridiculous compo awards have a real knock-on effect in the economy. It outrageous, both the size of the awards and the favorable view the courts seem to take against any injury suffered.

The high awards are justified because they are based on the "Book of Quantum" values.

Get a scratch - get €X,000, lose your nose - get €X,000,000, etc.

But what are these Quantums based on, you ask?

They're only bloody based on all the previous crazy high awards from preceding cases.

People have also speculated that €X,000 isn't a big amount to someone in the judiciary, but I'm wondering if there is a % of the claim that goes to the legal team therefore making them invested in higher and higher awards. Don't know how to unlink that kind of mess.

FFS! Sterile strips and glue used to close the cut, didn't require sutures! That's worth €20,000? I suppose if he had needed to be stitched it would have doubled the pay out.

janfebmar wrote: »

This country has gone to the dogs when people can get claims like that. No wonder insurance premiums are so high....which puts prices in the shop there high...so more people will shop on the internet, more often than not buying from abroad where businesses do not pay for such absurd claims.

we have a claim in against our business for a small cut. premium went up over 300%

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

I suppose the one plus is the €20k claim will be Googlable for life with their names entered in to a search, the money is not even a fraction of slave wages at that huge price.

Simple application for “right to be forgotten” and it will be removed from internet searches forever.