Son injured in car accident under schools care?

[SWP's back]

Dead serious mate. Not the only payout he had from them too. He was using a van mount cherry picker to paint the garage ceiling and instead of moving the basket down a few inches he maneuvered his arm so his elbow was pressing against the controls and of course he managed to inadvertently press the lever to raise the basket and crushed his hand against a roof beam. He got £20 k for that too, because the guard which covered the controls and would have prevented it from happening was missing. They didn't take into account that the reason it was in the garage in the first place was to put on a new guard and he had used it without permission or without performing the usual pre op checks.

How the fuck didn't the **** get fired?

 

[stony]

How the fuck didn't the **** get fired?

Powerful union at the time. I think most of the cash was actually compo from the union. I know the rest of the lads were fucking raging at the time. They knew he was an incompetent twat and their union subs were going in his pocket. He was a sly **** too, always in the office grassing on someone. Which was probably why they kept him on.

 

[stonerblue]

The op can be sure of getting a call from an ambulance chaser anytime soon.
My daughter was a passenger in a minor collision and her mate was straight onto the compo firms for whiplash. Told me daughter not to bother so she didn't. Several phone calls later one bloke said we just send a form, you sign it and we do the rest. Six months later her mate gets 2k. Day after daughter gets a cheque for 4k, 2 for whiplash and 2 for a tiny cut on her face.

 

[Alex the Blue]

Am I only one who gets calls telling me I've been involved n an accident over the last 3 years when I most certainly haven't.

 

[CitizenTID]

Someone at my old place won about £27 K for slipping on a wet floor at work because there was no sign warning of a wet floor. He got a written warning for mopping the floor without putting up a wet floor sign too.

If it was from someone else's carelessness and they lost £27K in earnings/had medical bills justifying it, fair enough. If it was their fault/they were fine to work the next day with no medical needs, that's no reasons to legally rob a business of their £27K, big or small.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Am I only one who gets calls telling me I've been involved n an accident over the last 3 years when I most certainly haven't.

Tell them you've just fallen off a ladder answering their fucking call and ask for the name of the person you're speaking to as you want to sue them.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Am I only one who gets calls telling me I've been involved n an accident over the last 3 years when I most certainly haven't.

I get them too.
I put them right.

 

[BimboBob]

I was in a car a couple of years ago when we had a minor shunt from behind. The driver sued for whiplash. I didn't bother despite his insistence. He got 2 grand a few months later after going to a physio a couple of times for a neck massage.

 

[Ifwecouldjust.......]

They've either just changed or are about to change the laws about claiming damages for whiplash due to the amount of bogus claims. They reckon it will knock up to £40 per year off the cost of car insurance. Whist I've no doubt that it will save on average £40 per year, I seriously doubt all that will be passed on to the customer.

They've just offset that being increasing the tax on insurance policies by 2%