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Compensation Culture to a new level

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    #2
    Pac1Man
    Registered Users Posts: 4,394 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    166man wrote: »
    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/woman-who-banged-her-knee-against-table-leg-at-restaurant-awarded-20k-35579644.html

    When is there going to be something sensible done about this? €20k for knocking your knee off a dinner table.. Most clear case of claims harvesting by the solicitors.

    Sickening to read it.

    Think of the amount of timing belts you could get for that OP!


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    #3
    valoren
    Registered Users Posts: 5,458 ✭✭✭valoren


    She was in so much pain but she still managed to eat her meal. What a trooper.


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    #4
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    i see the indo published it's April Fool's story early......

    .......oh wait......


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    #5
    davo2001
    Registered Users Posts: 3,317 ✭✭✭davo2001


    Anyone fancy heading out for dinner tonight? :pac: :pac: :pac:


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    #6
    nullzero
    Registered Users Posts: 16,411 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    ****


    "Disclaimer; All diners be aware that tables may have legs".

    Glazers Out!



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    Gatling
    Registered Users Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Seriously wtf.
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    Noddyholder
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    O’Connor told Padraig McCarton SC, who appeared for her with barrister Paul Twomey, that she had not been given any warning from the restaurant manager that the leg was hidden right beneath where she had been directed to sit.

    She had been awarded €18,000 damages at Mullingar Circuit Court by Judge Doirbhile Flanagan whose judgment was appealed to the High Court. Ms Justice Faherty affirmed the lower court’s finding and increased damages to €20,000 and costs.

    A forensic engineer said that if he had been asked pre-accident to risk assess the set up in the dining room he would not have directed the hotel to warn people about the presence of the table leg under the tablecloth.

    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/woman-who-banged-her-knee-against-table-leg-at-restaurant-awarded-20k-35579644.html



    A forensic engineer ???? She should of ordered some common sense , Mad **** , mad ****.


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    #9
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,027 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    it was a "trap":confused:


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    #10
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,863 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    And that's an increase of the award she was given in the lower court :eek:

    I'm not usually one for bandwagonning on the "ohmygodwhatastupidclaim" outrages (they're usually attributable to over-excited headline writers) - but WTF??? :confused:

    Whatever that judge was on, I'll have some of it.....


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    #11
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,630 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    Could we not get like a megathread for all these compo posts? I really couldn't care less anymore


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    #12
    jonon9
    Registered Users Posts: 1,124 ✭✭✭jonon9


    Cant wait for the day someone wins 20k for getting a brain freeze from an ice cream.

    Person:Yes your honor the ice cream caused me to have a brain freeze it could have blinded me.
    Judge: Poor poor person heres 20k


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    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    "he would not have directed the hotel to warn people about the presence of the table leg under the tablecloth"

    Of course he fcuking wouldn't because everyone knows that a table top doesn't hold itself up all on it's own!

    There'll be warnings on tablecloths next 'beware, may obscure table legs from sight'...Greatest load of bollocks I've ever heard. You'd think a judge with a lifetime of wining and dining in restaurants would have a bit off cop on and rule it as an unfortunate accident and try to dissuade chancers and scammers from this type of bullshít.


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    166man
    Registered Users Posts: 6,575 ✭✭✭166man


    riffmongous wrote: »
    Could we not get like a megathread for all these compo posts? I really couldn't care less anymore

    If you don't like it, perhaps I might suggest you don't read it. Now wouldn't that make the problem go away? :)


    Most of the claims I have heard about have been somewhat laughable, with the odd genuine case in there, but this takes the biscuit. What a farce.


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    jonon9
    Registered Users Posts: 1,124 ✭✭✭jonon9


    I often wonder do these people who claim and win bitch and moan about the cost of insurance?


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    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,063 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    The window was completely covered by a curtain, in effect, making it a trap. The plantiff dove through the curtain, expecting to meet no resistance, and hilariously booped her snoot.


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    #17
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users Posts: 7,761 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    I'm claiming €20,000 for the distress caused by reading this thread....


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    #18
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    Pinch Flat wrote: »
    I'm claiming €20,000 for the distress caused by reading this thread....

    You'd get €200,000 at least.


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    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,208 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Atrapitis.gif

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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    [Deleted User]
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    "When she returned home she had attended her local doctor, the Beaumont Hospital for X-rays and later a specialist in muscle spasm. The injury had disrupted her personal and professional life as a hairdresser."

    I'm confused... I didn't realise that hairdressing was such a physical job... It was her knee, not her hands/arms ffs. What the hell were these two judges thinking?

    That's just pathetic. Ireland is turning into America. yay!


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    ED E
    Registered Users Posts: 36,166 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    jonon9 wrote: »
    I often wonder do these people who claim and win bitch and moan about the cost of insurance?

    She's a hairdresser.

    Go into her place of work, "slip" on some hair, sue it out of existence. See how happy she is then.


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    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    jonon9 wrote: »
    I often wonder do these people who claim and win bitch and moan about the cost of insurance?

    Not with €20k in the back pocket they don't.
    She is a hairdresser. The cost of her employers public liability insurance goes up with these type claims. That drives up the cost of a haircut and lowers business which decreases the chance of her keeping her job.
    But feck it. €20k huh?


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    #23
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    riffmongous wrote: »
    I didn't read it :p just saw yet another compo thead on the front page of AH and wanted to voice my annoyance, there's a lack of new content here nowadays and compo threads are pretty much all the same. Sorry for hijacking your thread though, nothing personal there is just no where else to complain

    Yes, a new compo claim takes the culture to level 57 today. Let's see if we can crack 58 tomorrow and get at least €46,000.


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    #24
    jonon9
    Registered Users Posts: 1,124 ✭✭✭jonon9


    Winterlong wrote: »
    Not with €20k in the back pocket they don't.
    She is a hairdresser. The cost of her employers public liability insurance goes up with these type claims. That drives up the cost of a haircut and lowers business which decreases the chance of her keeping her job.
    But feck it. €20k huh?

    As long as shes ok for a few bob thats the main thing :rolleyes:


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    jonon9
    Registered Users Posts: 1,124 ✭✭✭jonon9


    We should start a poll on the next claim.

    I bet the next claim will be €50K


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    #26
    Sofiztikated
    Registered Users Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    Deleted User wrote: »
    "When she returned home she had attended her local doctor, the Beaumont Hospital for X-rays and later a specialist in muscle spasm. The injury had disrupted her personal and professional life as a hairdresser."

    I'm confused... I didn't realise that hairdressing was such a physical job... It was her knee, not her hands/arms ffs. What the hell were these two judges thinking?

    That's just pathetic. Ireland is turning into America. yay!

    You do realise that hairdressers stand all day, right? Something that you need your knee to help you to do?

    Still a ridiculous claim though, and to up it 2K in the upper court? G'wayourradat.


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    #27
    osarusan
    Registered Users Posts: 16,562 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    riffmongous wrote: »
    Could we not get like a megathread for all these compo posts? I really couldn't care less anymore
    I actually think that is a good idea.


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    #28
    Samuel T. Cogley
    Registered Users Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    riffmongous wrote: »
    Could we not get like a megathread for all these compo posts? I really couldn't care less anymore

    +1 also can we have another mega thread entitled the Judge Nolan Appreciation Society?


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    #29
    rob316
    Registered Users Posts: 17,979 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    Like how hard could she have hit her knee off the table leg? I've done it before its whack hurts for a few minutes and your fine then. I could never imagine filing a lawsuit for something so stupid. Maybe I'm the stupid one for not doing so.


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    keano_afc
    Registered Users Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    Takes a special kind of person to think "oh thats a clayum" when something like this happens.

    I'm over 6ft, I've walloped my knees off many a table leg and for a few seconds it hurts like crazy. To give €20k for this, wow.


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    Samuel T. Cogley
    Registered Users Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    Egg shell skull rule.


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