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    #32
    kowloon
    Registered Users Posts: 13,280 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    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

    I never knew that was a thing. Shall we just stop breeding so?
    We could all join the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement: http://www.vhemt.org/


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    #33
    The Bishop Basher
    Registered Users Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭The Bishop Basher


    McCrack wrote: »
    Oh stop being so bitter

    Not bitter..

    Just have a pain in me hoop seeing judges award large sums of money to greedy people with imaginary injuries.

    They'd be welcome to the money if the rest of us weren't paying for it.

    But we are.

    Over and over again.


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    #34
    Samuel T. Cogley
    Registered Users Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    Rennaws wrote: »
    Not bitter..

    Just have a pain in me hoop seeing judges award large sums of money to greedy people with imaginary injuries.

    They'd be welcome to the money if the rest of us weren't paying for it.

    But we are.

    Over and over again.


    Not awarded by the Judge as this was a settlement.


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    #35
    Samuel T. Cogley
    Registered Users Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    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?"


    No he's saying that 'nervous shock' does not have to rise to the level of PTSD before an award can be made.


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    #36
    orourkeda1977
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭orourkeda1977


    Maybe this is just me but the grandfather has an extremely punchable looking head on him.


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    #37
    Samuel T. Cogley
    Registered Users Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    orourkeda1977 wrote: »
    Maybe this is just me but the grandfather has an extremely punchable looking head on him.


    That'd be at least €100K


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    #38
    orourkeda1977
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭orourkeda1977


    Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »
    That'd be at least €100K

    And the kid is 5 now. He'd be paid at least 50 large


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    #39
    The Bishop Basher
    Registered Users Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭The Bishop Basher


    Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »
    Not awarded by the Judge as this was a settlement.

    Yes I know that's why I said "facilitated" in the original post.

    It doesn't matter either way though.

    The judges are awarding and approving these large sums for insignificant and non existent injuries and in some cases sending them away to get more as with the child with the fully healed broken leg last year.

    https://www.injury-compensation.ie/news/claim-for-a-broken-leg-at-play-school/


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    #40
    Samuel T. Cogley
    Registered Users Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    Rennaws wrote: »
    Yes I know that's why I said "facilitated" in the original post.

    It doesn't matter either way though.

    The judges are awarding and approving these large sums for insignificant and non existent injuries and in some cases sending them away to get more as with the child with the fully healed broken leg last year.

    https://www.injury-compensation.ie/news/claim-for-a-broken-leg-at-play-school/


    Simply going off the Book of Quantum on that one.

    It's up to these places to have a proper risk assessment in place and offer a proper defence. There's something that's not adding up in this one and it's alluded to in the article.

    As for awards generally, we've no general data just 'news worthy' reports. Of those reports I will say I think there is a trend of awards which are too high.


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    #41
    Mrsmum
    Registered Users Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Mrsmum


    So everyone else that was there on the day she walked into the glass door and was all blood, are they entitled to sue also for their trauma ?


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    #42
    Samuel T. Cogley
    Registered Users Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    Mrsmum wrote: »
    So everyone else that was there on the day she walked into the glass door and was all blood, are they entitled to sue also for their trauma ?


    They could give it a go.


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    #43
    Mrsmum
    Registered Users Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Mrsmum


    Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »
    They could give it a go.

    I think we will reach a point where everyone entering a premises will have to sign a waiver if they want admittance.


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    #44
    lawred2
    Registered Users Posts: 24,271 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    RHJ wrote: »
    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.

    you forgot to compound it

    closer to 30%


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    #45
    Samuel T. Cogley
    Registered Users Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    Mrsmum wrote: »
    I think we will reach a point where everyone entering a premises will have to sign a waiver if they want admittance.


    There is also the issue that premises need to protect themselves by having a proper risk assessment etc. putting themselves in a proper position to fight claims. There's something not quite right in this case.


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    #46
    TheDavester
    Registered Users Posts: 3,206 ✭✭✭TheDavester


    2nd time in recent times a Rice has screwed the Irish People


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    #47
    is_that_so
    Registered Users Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »
    There is also the issue that premises need to protect themselves by having a proper risk assessment etc. putting themselves in a proper position to fight claims. There's something not quite right in this case.

    Glass doors, marked or unmarked, do leave people open to claims every time. The woman seemed to have a case, the child really is a huge stretch but negative PR around it for an entity would have cost way more than they settled for.


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    #48
    Dav010
    Registered Users Posts: 14,004 ✭✭✭✭Dav010


    Is there no end to this madness?

    Child catches finger in classroom door, a door probably similar to any door in a home.

    €55.000.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/circuit-court/55-000-for-girl-unable-to-grow-long-nails-after-accident-1.3801672?mode=amp


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    #49
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,186 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I always think of all the little bumps and scraps and things I've seen over the years. If I wanted I could be in the money.


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    #50
    RacoonQueen
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,364 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    Dav010 wrote: »
    Is there no end to this madness?

    Child catches finger in classroom door, a door probably similar to any door in a home.

    €55.000.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/circuit-court/55-000-for-girl-unable-to-grow-long-nails-after-accident-1.3801672?mode=amp

    Come on now, her handwriting is affected...


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