Lynny
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right, bout 2-3 years ago a lass who went to my old school was gettin off school bus on a night time, went to cross road behind it, so obviously couldt see traffic and a BT van jst so happened to be comin the other way. obviously she got hit and was clearly her fault, shes now paralysed totally and even talk, anyways it was proved that the van was goin under the speed limit and was absolutly nothing driver cud do to avoid the siutuation (hes now fked up n the head over it all  ), anyways this week the family have sued for over £1 million and got it  is it jst me or is this not on?
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goldfish
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not on
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Matt H
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you sure they have sued?
i believe they can claim for a disability allowence & it can be sent in 1 lump sum
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Cavey
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Not on at all, expect to see that guy topping himself soon
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cargraphics4u.com
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Think how much it costs to look after somebody in that condition though, the money would not come from the driver it would come from the insurance company.
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AndyCorsa
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Thats f*cking bang out of order! If it was proven that he was under the speed limit and it sounds like it was clearly her fault then I don't see how they could sue him.
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Lynny
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quote:
Originally posted by matt h
you sure they have sued?
i believe they can claim for a disability allowence & it can be sent in 1 lump sum
nope defo sued, i kno the lasses' sister
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Lynny
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Originally posted by graficxpress
Think how much it costs to look after somebody in that condition though, the money would not come from the driver it would come from the insurance company.
theyve sued BT as it was their van
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cargraphics4u.com
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quote:
Originally posted by Lynny
quote:
Originally posted by graficxpress
Think how much it costs to look after somebody in that condition though, the money would not come from the driver it would come from the insurance company.
theyve sued BT as it was their van
ah right
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Adam
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complete crap, people are getting far to greedy nowadays, it's getting fucking stupid now.
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AndyCorsa
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Originally posted by Adam
complete crap, people are getting far to greedy nowadays, it's getting fucking stupid now.
Yeh we are getting just as bad as the Americans!
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Adam
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Search Google for the "Stella Awards"
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Robin
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expect phone bills to be higher from now on then
if it wasnt the drivers fault, how was bt liable for a claim?
i mean, fair enough, the family must be distaught, but money doesnt make it better
and the driver of the van must have felt bad enough anyway, even though it was obviously her fault
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AndyCorsa
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Search Google for the "Stella Awards"
haha lol. Read that before, fcuking idiots arn't they?
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Lynny
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Originally posted by robmarriott
expect phone bills to be higher from now on then
if it wasnt the drivers fault, how was bt liable for a claim?
i mean, fair enough, the family must be distaught, but money doesnt make it better
and the driver of the van must have felt bad enough anyway, even though it was obviously her fault
that was exactly my point!
apparently the driver had a wife and kids and has had to leave them coz hes so fked up about it
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Adam
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Sorry to Hijack but
#7: Attorney Philip Shafer of Ashland, Ohio, flew on Delta Airlines from New Orleans to Cincinnati and was given a seat, he says, next to a fat man. "He was a huge man," Shafer says. "He and I [were] literally and figuratively married from the right kneecap to the shoulder for two hours." He therefore "suffered embarrassment, severe discomfort, mental anguish and severe emotional distress," he claims in a lawsuit against the airline. Shafer figures this embarrassment, discomfort, mental anguish and emotional distress could be cured by a $9,500 payment from Delta. If Shafer isn't careful, that might be dwarfed by the divorce settlement his "huge" (seat)mate might demand.
#6: "The Godfather of Soul" James Brown has a "grudge" against his daughters Deanna Brown Thomas and Yamma Brown Lumar, they allege. They say Brown "vowed to the media that his daughters will never get a dime from him" and "James Brown has kept his word." So they have done what any kid would do when cut off from their rich daddy's bank account: they sued him for more than $1 million, claiming that they are owed royalties on 25 of his songs which, they say, they helped him write even though, at the time, they were children. For instance, when Brown's 1976 hit "Get Up Offa That Thing" was a chart-topper, the girls were aged 3 and 6. It's enough to make Brown switch to the Blues.
#5: Utah prison inmate Robert Paul Rice, serving 1-15 years on multiple felonies, sued the Utah Department of Corrections claiming the prison was not letting him practice his religion: "Druidic Vampire". Rice claimed that to do that, he must be allowed sexual access to a "vampress". In addition, the prison isn't supplying his specific "vampiric dietary needs" (yes: blood). Records show that Rice registered as a Catholic when he was imprisoned in 2000. "Without any question we do not have conjugal visits in Utah," said a prison spokesman when the suit was thrown out. Which just goes to prove prison life sucks.
#4: Every time you visit your doctor, you're told the same old things: eat less, exercise more, stop smoking. Do you listen? Neither did Kathleen Ann McCormick. The obese, cigarette-smoking woman from Wilkes-Barre, Penn., had high blood pressure, high cholesterol and a family history of coronary artery disease. Yet doctors at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center "did not do enough" to convince her to work to improve her own health. Unsurprisingly, she had a heart attack which, she says in a federal lawsuit, left her a "cardiac invalid". In addition to eight doctors, she's suing their employer -- the U.S. government -- demanding a minimum of $1 million in compensation.
#3: In 1997 Bob Craft, then 39, of Hot Springs, Montana, changed his name to Jack Ass. Now, he says that MTV's TV show and movie "Jackass" was "plagiarized" from him, infringes his trademarks and copyrights, and that this has demeaned, denigrated and damaged his public image. No attorney would take the case, so he has filed suit on his own against MTV's corporate parent, demanding $50 million in damages. If nothing else, Jack Ass has proved he chose his name well.
#2: Hazel Norton of Rolling Fork, Miss., read there was a class action suit against the drug Propulsid, which her doctor had prescribed to her for a digestive disorder. Despite admitting that "I didn't get hurt by Propulsid," Norton thought "I might get a couple of thousand dollars" by joining the lawsuit. When her doctor was named in the suit, he quit his Mississippi practice -- where he was serving the poor. He left with his wife, a pediatrician and internist. That left only two doctors practicing at the local hospital. So while Norton wasn't harmed by the drug, all her neighbors now get to suffer from drastically reduced access to medical care because of her greed.
And the winner of the 2002 True Stella Awards: sisters Janice Bird, Dayle Bird Edgmon and Kim Bird Moran sued their mother's doctors and a hospital after Janice accompanied her mother, Nita Bird, to a minor medical procedure. When something went wrong, Janice and Dayle witnessed doctors rushing their mother to emergency surgery. Rather than malpractice, their legal fight centered on the "negligent infliction of emotional distress" -- not for causing distress to their mother, but for causing distress to them for having to see the doctors rushing to help their mother. The case was fought all the way to the California Supreme Court, which finally ruled against the women. Which is a good thing, since if they had prevailed doctors and hospitals would have had no choice but to keep you from being anywhere near your family members during medical procedures just in case something goes wrong. In their greed, the Bird sisters risked everyone's right to have family members with them in emergencies.
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Lynny
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adam, pish off 
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Cavey
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That's got bollock all to do with this thread, create a seperate thread for it.
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Lynny
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is it not a personal injuries insurance claim? In cases of "an accident" even if a persons injuries are no-one elses fault then the victim still gets a payout
[Edited on 05-10-2004 by Bennn]
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This will be hard to believe but there's a guy who drinks with us in the pub,6 years ago he broke down on the m18 got out of his car, next thing he's hit by an Eddie Stobart lorry at 65mph, and survived
I've seen all the pictures of the front of the lorry and he put a right fucking dent in it! if left him with allsorts of broken bones etc he was in a coma for ages, anyway he eventually woke up and his left side is slower than his right side (quite funny actually cos when u ask him to walk as fast as he can he ends up going round in circles )
He's got his settlement at £1.75million and this was based on all the benefits he'd be claiming in as he will enver need to claim incapacity benefits anymore, obviously got a sum for his injuries, got a sum for all the work on his house to suit his new disability,eg ramps and stairlifts.
totally his fault for not looking to see if there was a lorry coming, and pictures of the scene showed his car wasnt parked that neat to the barrier, all that moved was the door, which got ripepd clean off
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Robin
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well if they planned to fleece bt for money, thats just stupid, it wont make anything better, and they will just get a small sense of achievment for a short time
but maybe thats the point, they wanted someone else to blame, and BT were too scared to say no.
the family probably felt it helped them cope for a bit, thats why lots of people claim in this kind of situation
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Ian
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£1m is not a lot when you consider the extra expense of care, equipment etc. for the lifetime of this person. Thats only 16k for 60 years, which she'll most likely outlive, and which won't even pay a salary before you even buy anything to assist with mobility.
This sounds to me to be a personal injury claim, which yes, you don't have be in the wrong to claim, just be injured and incur expenses.
It he was sued then the prosecution would have to prove negligence, which in the case of a motor accident would not go against the decision made previously on blame for the accident.
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Nismo
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not on at all.
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Robin
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so what your sayin then is that its perfectly resonable to claim for what are effectively damages even though it was proven that it wasnt the drivers fault?
not being sarcy, just wasnt sure what you meant
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