Fell in tesco, no wet floor sign or mat, what should I do?

gtd2000

Think yourself lucky that you are not my mum!

She slipped and fell on an extremely dangerous soaking wet (roof covered) tiled floor coming out of the hotel in Spain, broke her pelvis in 2 places and fractured her wrist. Of course no signs were in place and the attitude was that as long as the insurance covered your medical costs then that was the end of it.

Two years later she still has problems with her wrist and she could not drive for months and endured severe pain for most of 2006. :mad:

In Spain it's basically tough s.h.i.t if this happens to you

Mike54_2

I think the poster wants the store to possibly take note of this and ensure wet signs are put up next time, as its quite possible she did not see the floor was wet.

superstylin

Financial_Novice wrote: »

The least you should expect is an apology from them and hopefully as a gesture of good will perhaps some money off vouchers. Glad you don't agree with the compensation culture cause neither do I. Accidents happen.

The only time I'd agree with a comp claim if there was deliberate neglect by the company or serious injury to yourself resulting in a loss of earnings or long term disability.

I think Novice wraps it up nicely with that

foxxymynx

I'd advise you to see your GP to get checked over just incase and ensure that you don't get worse or just don't get better. Write a letter of complaint to the store to complain if you must.

Welshwoofs

I was out walking today in drizzly rain and a light wind. I looked up whilst passing under some trees and an acorn fell on me causing an unpleasant stinging sensation which lasted at least 10 seconds!!!!

I don't believe in compensation but in all honesty, there should be warning signs put up if dangerous items are going to drop out of deciduous trees without warning. I can't help thinking that the council must be responsible for not removing all foliage and other seasonal growth which may fall on to unsuspecting passers by - they can't expect the public to know what could happen to this stuff during inclement weather surely!!

Lavendyr

Mike54 wrote: »

I think the poster wants the store to possibly take note of this and ensure wet signs are put up next time, as its quite possible she did not see the floor was wet.

If that's the case, why did the poster say "I do not agree with the "compo culture" we now have but I do feel Tesco should recompense me"? Recompense for what, exactly? That is what is unclear.

LondonGirl08

Last night at work we had an accident. There are these divider things that we use for the cloakroom and some !!!! pulled one of them down by mistake. It hit a girl on the head (but may I just point out they aren't that heavy and I've been whacked on the head many times by them). We made sure she was ok and she said she just wanted her money back and her taxi fare home but then her friends got involved. One of whom was an American lawyer. He started shouting at me, putting words into my mouth and saying I accepted liability (I didn't).

I said to him, your friend seems fine and if you pursue this you're going to make me lose my job, cause the club (which is a charity/non-profit organisation) to shut down. It was an accident! He got all "Well I'm really sorry sweetie but she needs COMPENSATION!"

I EFFING HATE compensation culture.

KimYeovil

superstylin wrote: »

ooooh new word alert! what does Epimenidean mean Kim? just looked it up but can't make head nor tail of it!

Epimenidean as in Epimenides as in 'all Cretans are liars' as in 'I don't believe in the compensation culture but...'

Sorry about the pig-pile, Mrs Pickles, but, really!

KimYeovil

KimYeovil wrote: »

Sorry about the pig-pile, Mrs Pickles, but, really!

Oops, I'm doing it myself, now. What I mean is "I am not at all sorry about the pig-pile."

jago25_98

The law is to blame for compensation culture. Our own collective stupid organization.

I sometimes wonder whether it would be good to go about falling over on purpose, running into cars to make fraudulent claims in order to fix the legal system.

I she won't get any help here.

I guess the only option other than using a company that should never even exist is to chance on independent legal advice. But this will cost.

The lawyers win. They need to be controlled.