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dampdaveski

tandraig wrote: »

and if one of you ambulance chasing haters trips over a broken kerbstone which has been that way for months as the council cant be aresed to mend it, and badly breaks an ankle resulting in months off work, not being able to pay the mortgage and possibly losing your job? you will then of course, shrug and say, well it was just an accident.

If that situation occurred then a claim may well be fair game HOWEVER dizzy,I and others were aiming our hostility at the FALSE blaim culture that is actively encouraged by the ambulance chasing scum out there.

I've had a case recently where an ex employee who worked for the founder of my firm in 1972 for 6 months tried to claim off us for industrial deafness, turns out the piece of sh#t put the same claim against every employer he has had, that he has NI contributions proof (ie proof of employment) 15 employers he has tried to claim off, WHY? because the ambulance chasing scum told him to do it because it gave him the best chance of a pay off!
All our insurers joined forces to defend against this sh1thouse and paid for a seperate medical test etc, funnily enough the ambulance chasers can't get the insurance policy now to guarantee their wages in case they lose.
surprise surprise it all goes quiet (no pun intended).
I wouldn't p##s on one if they were on fire
I feel a lot better for that

P.S. i'm going to record that curly haired ##ck off the go compare ads and play it down the phone to some of these firms answering machines overnight :D

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marleyboy

UUUUUrgh!!!!! That "The Bill's Burnside" one at the racecourse, makes me wanna punch his lights out

Sunshine12

The worst one Ive ever heard is the american woman that sued a microwave company because nowhere on the instructions did it say that you couldnt put a cat in it. (She put her cat in it to dry it off as she used to do with her electric oven and the cat exploded.)

mishelly

That advert with the ladder makes me laugh, especially when the guy states that he 'was given the wrong type of ladder'. If he knew this then why go up it? Bet he hadnt done his ladder course!

Anyway I have just been reading a book called The Magistrates Tale and I completely agree with the Author on this and i quote...

" On a Sunday morning I skidded on some mossy paving stones and fell on my back. I wasnt hurt, but within an hour I was pressed to fill in a claim form. Horrors. Was this yet another instance of the compensation culture or were people simply nervous of being sued by a magistrate? Either way it was deeply irritating. Rolling stones may gather no moss but in the middle of a moist English January paving stones do. Grown-ups should be expected to know this. Caveat ambulator. Case dismissed."

marleyboy

Sunshine12 wrote: »

The worst one Ive ever heard is the american woman that sued a microwave company because nowhere on the instructions did it say that you couldnt put a cat in it. (She put her cat in it to dry it off as she used to do with her electric oven and the cat exploded.)

Not as good as the bloke who put is Motor Home into cruise control, and nipped to the kitchen to make a coffee.

Successfully sued after it crashed off the highway on the grounds that the manual didn't warn he had to remain behind the wheel to steer the vehicle.

tandraig

okay so a broken kerbstone wouldnt be a problem for you. you would take the financial hit.
lets say your three year old daughter was given a childs umbrella from a friend who bought it in one of those cheap stores. she opens it and the spoke flies up into her face - she is covered in blood and screaming. you take her to A&E and she is stitched up by the reg on duty. a year later and your once beautiful daughter has severe facial scarring.
but then you say - well it was an accident wasnt it? then you hear about it happening to another child whose parents sued - they got about £35000 and the childs face wasnt as scarred as yours as their hospital had the good sense to call in a specialist to stitch the child.
what do you do? still shrug it off?
then you find out the shop had bought these umbrellas from china and they were already subject to a recall which the shop had ignored and were selling them for months after trading standards had outlawed them.
hmmm still an accident?
I totally agree that accidents do happen - but if someone does something stupid which any NORMAL person would think is dangerous - then they are liable when something goes wrong.
and by the way the poster who says that a five foot female person getting a 32" tv off the top shelf of a warehouse with only a ladder for support - actually according to health and safety - thats a two person job and a ladder is not considered sufficient for that purpose - yet a certain store expects female person to do that! this female person was considering being found on the floor of the warehouse with tv in bits then sueing the !!! off them! but didnt because i DO have ethics!

sarahg1969

Plushchris wrote: »

. If he really cut himself whilst using that then IMO he deserved a scar on his face to remind him of his stupidity.

I noticed that the photos didn't show the great big chunk out of his chin! The little line on his cheek hardly spoiled his looks, did it?

marleyboy

tandraig wrote: »

okay so a broken kerbstone wouldnt be a problem for you. you would take the financial hit.
lets say your three year old daughter was given a childs umbrella from a friend who bought it in one of those cheap stores. she opens it and the spoke flies up into her face - she is covered in blood and screaming. you take her to A&E and she is stitched up by the reg on duty. a year later and your once beautiful daughter has severe facial scarring.
but then you say - well it was an accident wasnt it? then you hear about it happening to another child whose parents sued - they got about £35000 and the childs face wasnt as scarred as yours as their hospital had the good sense to call in a specialist to stitch the child.
what do you do? still shrug it off?
then you find out the shop had bought these umbrellas from china and they were already subject to a recall which the shop had ignored and were selling them for months after trading standards had outlawed them.
hmmm still an accident?
I totally agree that accidents do happen - but if someone does something stupid which any NORMAL person would think is dangerous - then they are liable when something goes wrong.
and by the way the poster who says that a five foot female person getting a 32" tv off the top shelf of a warehouse with only a ladder for support - actually according to health and safety - thats a two person job and a ladder is not considered sufficient for that purpose - yet a certain store expects female person to do that! this female person was considering being found on the floor of the warehouse with tv in bits then sueing the !!! off them! but didnt because i DO have ethics!

I can give you two examples;

The first was when my Stepson (4yrs old), slipped on some steps in the shopping centre in Oldham. Although he was brave about it and barely whimpered, we assumed he twisted his ankle so i carried him on my shoulder the rest of the journey. Up until we got home, took his shoe off and it was clear he had broken his ankle.

I would say it was his fault because he was running around like a wild tiger, he was off school for a few days and was in plaster for 6 weeks - we reported it to the shopping centre, filling in an accident report form and thought nothing more of it. Until we got first a letter of apology from the mall (fair enough), then letter upon letter from insurance claim companies. I accepted it was his stupidity so did not chase it up as (accidents happen).

The Second time was my Brother (30Yrs), who lives in a Tower Block, one day he went to dispose of rubbish down the rubbish chute (a large heavy door with a lever), unfortunately, the door had been put back on (I assume after a blockage) upside down. As my brother tugged the lever, the whole chute fell off with a SLAM!!!!!

Instantly broke both his feet (he was very lucky it didnt sever his feet off as they are very heavy. He was off work for Months as a result, stuck in a tower block unable to go out, requiring me to go down daily to help him out.

The Housing who owned the tower got to hear about it through a caretaker, where on the same day they had turned up re-installed the door and secured it. No apologies. My brother didn't sue (where I would have took them to the cleaners), his reason..."someone might lose their job". Instead he classed it as an accident, I classed it as negligence, but still he lost out on his wages, a bonus, and his freedom for a good 12 Weeks.

Both occasions there was no claim, although in the second case I think a claim was not only warranted, but deserved.

FATBALLZ

That programme really annoyed me with the woman who sat in a park and a branch fell on her so she sued the council. The council paid out a 4 figure sum because they couldn't prove they checked all of the hundreds of trees in the park. Where is it going to end? There will be no roads, no trees, no pavements because if the council give us any useful infrastructure and it isnt 100% perfect then somebody will sue them. People who put in frivolous claims should be locked up.