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    Allinall
    Registered Users Posts: 6,533 ✭✭✭Allinall


    Dav010 wrote: »
    https://www.google.ie/amp/s/amp.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/boy-5-who-saw-mother-injured-by-glass-panel-awarded-20k-for-psychiatric-injuries-37831923.html

    Wow.

    15 month old suffers “psychiatric injuries”.

    The law is an ass.

    Are you a doctor?


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    Dav010
    Registered Users Posts: 14,003 ✭✭✭✭Dav010


    Allinall wrote: »
    Are you a doctor?

    Yes actually


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    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Pure greed. I wish them no luck with the money.


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    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,748 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    Kid was 15 months and didn't see the accident, just the bloody mother after it. Yet the club were so afraid they offered 20k.

    Nice work if you can get it.


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    Effects
    Registered Users Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭Effects


    How much did the mother get for the initial accident?


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    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users Posts: 11,191 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »
    Pure greed. I wish them no luck with the money.

    Child won't see a cent for another 13 years, and parents won't be able to access it either.


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    Effects
    Registered Users Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭Effects


    Allinall wrote: »
    Are you a doctor?
    Well the guy who examined him was.
    Jude’s doctor found very little wrong with the child and while seeing his mother injured had the potential to be traumatising for the boy, there had been no lasting negative effect on him.

    How much do you get if it has an actual effect on you?


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    RHJ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 925 ✭✭✭RHJ


    If it's true, the kid has to wait 13 years to access the money then if it makes you feel any better inflation is currently running at around 2% so by the time he gets the money it will be worth approximately 26% less than today.


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    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    That is just taking the p1ss


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    is_that_so
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    Deebles McBeebles wrote: »
    Kid was 15 months and didn't see the accident, just the bloody mother after it. Yet the club were so afraid they offered 20k.

    Nice work if you can get it.

    That's what seems to be at the core of a lot of these settlements. Some entities will push back, the likes of pubs, clubs and especially anything to do with accidents. I am dubious about effect on the child but at least his college fees are sorted out.


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    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users Posts: 25,402 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Next up.

    Child sues hospital for psychiatric trauma after seeing too much blood during his/her birth.


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    Effects
    Registered Users Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭Effects


    Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »
    Next up.

    Child sues hospital for psychiatric trauma after seeing too much blood during his/her birth.

    Why stop there?

    https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2019/feb/05/consent-being-born-man-suing-parents-for-giving-birth-to-him


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    Grab All Association
    Registered Users Posts: 3,918 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    Effects wrote: »
    Why stop there?

    https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2019/feb/05/consent-being-born-man-suing-parents-for-giving-birth-to-him

    There’s a lawsuit I surprisingly have no issue with.

    We don’t choose to be born,and the ones who bring in a child they can Ill afford extreme poverty should be prosecuted


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    is_that_so
    Registered Users Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Grab All Association wrote: »
    There’s a lawsuit I surprisingly have no issue with.

    We don’t choose to be born,and the ones who bring in a child they can Ill afford extreme poverty should be prosecuted

    Sounds like the Dutch chap who wanted to have his age changed. Always someone to blame for personal "misery.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46425774


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    The Bishop Basher
    Registered Users Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭The Bishop Basher


    Every time it seems like we've hit a new low, some greedy flucker somewhere has been greedy enough to find another one.

    I don't blame the greed afflicted. I feel sorry for them tbh.

    I blame the judges who facilitate and agree to this nonsense.

    Anyway,

    May their ill gotten gains bring them nothing but misery and misfortune for the rest of their days.


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    skerry
    Registered Users Posts: 2,804 ✭✭✭skerry


    Ahhhm, have ye not seen Dexter lads? These type of childhood traumas can have serious (and entertaining) consequences on an infant .......at least on TV they do.


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    Fiftyfilthy
    Registered Users Posts: 554 ✭✭✭Fiftyfilthy


    Hope the baby has nightmares over it . May as well get their money’s worth then

    Don’t worry baby about the nightmares, 20k will make them go away....


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    Effects
    Registered Users Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭Effects


    The Sun going with the classy angle: https://www.thesun.ie/news/3775271/glamour-models-tot-compo-blood/


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    TheChizler
    Registered Users Posts: 9,403 ✭✭✭TheChizler


    Not commenting on the merits of the case, but this line struck me:
    Judge Garavan, who said that while there was no recognised psychiatric illness diagnosed, nonetheless there were many cases that came before the court that did not measure up to post traumatic stress disorder. He approved the offer.

    Am I picking it up wrong, or is he basically saying that "there's no good evidence of injury here, but we make orders to pay out for no evidence all the time and why should this be different?"


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    El_Bee
    Registered Users Posts: 933 ✭✭✭El_Bee


    I really need to take a dive, free money is out there you just have to make it look convincing.


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    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    It seems so easy.


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    Effects
    Registered Users Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭Effects


    TheChizler wrote: »
    we make orders to pay out for no evidence all the time and why should this be different?"

    Cheaper in the long run/hedging bets/jobs for the boys.


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    RMAOK
    Registered Users Posts: 11,198 ✭✭✭✭RMAOK


    Effects wrote: »
    The Sun going with the classy angle: https://www.thesun.ie/news/3775271/glamour-models-tot-compo-blood/

    No sensationalism there at all....

    The mother looked well in her younger days


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    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    RMAOK wrote: »
    No sensationalism there at all....

    The mother looked well in her younger days

    Your looking at her tits, her head is a big square thing.


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    Stone Gossard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 197 ✭✭Stone Gossard


    Effects wrote: »
    The Sun going with the classy angle: https://www.thesun.ie/news/3775271/glamour-models-tot-compo-blood/

    Jaysus ..if you don't take that down the young fella is going to sue you for seeing his poor auld mams tits splashed all over the internet!


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    McCrack
    Registered Users Posts: 2,968 ✭✭✭McCrack


    Rennaws wrote: »
    Every time it seems like we've hit a new low, some greedy flucker somewhere has been greedy enough to find another one.

    I don't blame the greed afflicted. I feel sorry for them tbh.

    I blame the judges who facilitate and agree to this nonsense.

    Anyway,

    May their ill gotten gains bring them nothing but misery and misfortune for the rest of their days.

    Oh stop being so bitter


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    Markcheese
    Registered Users Posts: 8,428 ✭✭✭Markcheese


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    Child won't see a cent for another 13 years, and parents won't be able to access it either.

    So if the child is traumatised, none of the money can be used for therapy till he's properly f*ed up (ha), and then he can heal himself with a dirt bike and a car...

    Would it not have made more sense to put 20,000 aside exclusively for therapy (ha) and any expenses related, not reward with a holiday money.

    Slava ukraini 🇺🇦



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    Markcheese
    Registered Users Posts: 8,428 ✭✭✭Markcheese


    How much will the kid be able to sue his mam for when he discovers she was a stripper, oh the trauma...

    Slava ukraini 🇺🇦



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    Kivaro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭Kivaro


    TheChizler wrote: »
    Not commenting on the merits of the case, but this line struck me:



    Am I picking it up wrong, or is he basically saying that "there's no good evidence of injury here, but we make orders to pay out for no evidence all the time and why should this be different?"

    When I read that this morning, I just thought that I was still asleep or had woken up in the twilight zone.
    Really odd thing for a judge to say.

    But then again, it's Ireland.


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    fullstop
    Registered Users Posts: 11,300 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    Effects wrote: »
    The Sun going with the classy angle: https://www.thesun.ie/news/3775271/glamour-models-tot-compo-blood/

    She deserves no better, chasing money for that.


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