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Solicitors contributing to Ireland's Insurance Fraud Culture

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  • #202
    easypazz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,346 ✭✭✭easypazz


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    or more likely because they knew they were negligent.

    Yes there may have been negligence, but the injury was minor, a full recovery was made and it only necessitated a day trip to a + e, not even a night in hospital.

    This nonsense will keep encouraging more and more to do it, and premiums will keep rising.


  • #203
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,580 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    easypazz wrote: »
    Was it not the insurance company?

    Doesn't state.


  • #204
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,513 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Boggles wrote: »
    The hotel settled.
    easypazz wrote: »
    Was it not the insurance company?
    Boggles wrote: »
    Doesn't state.

    The hotel was claiming on it's insurance then the insurance company have the right to settle on the hotels behalf.


  • #205
    easypazz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,346 ✭✭✭easypazz


    Another

    A child who fell off a stage at a wedding in a Co Donegal hotel has been awarded €35,000.

    Barrister Peter Nolan told the court that the child fell off a stage during the wedding and suffered a laceration.

    He was rushed to Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry where he was treated on the night.

    Mr Nolan read the reports from two plastic surgeons which the child has been attending.

    Both said that the scar, which is around the child's eyebrow, is visible but is expected to heal well.


    And another

    A Dublin girl, who was left with slightly stunted finger after she caught her hand in a door in her primary school, has been awarded damages of €10,000 at Dublin District Court.

    So what next, all hotels remove their stages so looper, hyper kids don't go jumping off them.

    Should we remove all doors from public buildings, because how else do you stop the risk of an accident of somebody catching their finger in a door happening.


  • #206
    BattleCorp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,789 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    Patrick2010 wrote: »
    Paywall on most IT articles these days. Whats the jist of this payout?

    It's free to register. Once you register, you don't have to pay.


  • #207
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Six One News has a case example - I'll assume this fella had legal advice.

    https://www.thejournal.ie/mibi-case-man-back-pain-4983483-Jan2020/


  • #208
    irishgeo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,528 ✭✭✭irishgeo


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Six One News has a case example - I'll assume this fella had legal advice.

    https://www.thejournal.ie/mibi-case-man-back-pain-4983483-Jan2020/

    The guards need to start procesuting a few of these lads.


  • #209
    AlekSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,005 ✭✭✭✭AlekSmart


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Six One News has a case example - I'll assume this fella had legal advice.

    https://www.thejournal.ie/mibi-case-man-back-pain-4983483-Jan2020/

    The Journal appear highly selective in their reporting of this case....one would wonder why ?

    It appears the Irish Independent have no such qualms...

    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/compensation-claim-withdrawn-after-video-emerges-of-wheelchair-bound-claimant-walking-in-dublin-38903582.html
    On Tuesday, counsel for Mr Iosca told the court his client was withdrawing the case.

    Not only had the good Mr Iosca legal advice,but he had COUNSEL....who may well end up getting paid anyway !!!
    Mr Justice Cross noted the case had been withdrawn and he awarded costs to the MIBI against Mr Iosca.

    :eek:


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



  • #210
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    irishgeo wrote: »
    The guards need to start procesuting a few of these lads.

    I agree, solicitors need to be arrested and prosecuted for promoting false claims.


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  • #211
    jay0109
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,671 ✭✭✭jay0109


    AlekSmart wrote: »

    Not only had the good Mr Iosca legal advice,but he had COUNSEL....who may well end up getting paid anyway !!!
    And the chances if the MIBI getting their costs back from this fella = 0


  • #212
    marieholmfan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,744 ✭✭✭marieholmfan


    The solicitor should be liable for the other sides costs in extreme cases.


  • #213
    jay0109
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,671 ✭✭✭jay0109


    AlekSmart wrote: »
    The Journal appear highly selective in their reporting of this case....one would wonder why ?
    Just seen the Journal article....didn't give his name or use the pictures/footage made available to the Media.
    It really is a rag of a 'news' site


  • #214
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,918 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Six One News has a case example - I'll assume this fella had legal advice.

    https://www.thejournal.ie/mibi-case-man-back-pain-4983483-Jan2020/

    Fair play to them for getting that video.

    He would have been paid had they not.

    We need a serious rethink about insurance and claims in this country.

    It boils my blood we pay for ******* like that in our premiums.

    Enough.


  • #215
    Jurgen The German
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,220 ✭✭✭Jurgen The German


    The case cited above has been going since 2016. The MIBI will never get a cent from this guy. They will still have all their investigation and defence fees to cover so even though he didnt get paid its still going to cost them likely 10s of thousands. As MIBI is funded by our premiums its costing us 10s of thousands. We have made our own bed and are currently lying in it. I am confident changes are coming but its going to take time. I'm sure the likes of Pearse Doherty will go to town with this case the same way as he goes to town on insurance companies.....


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