Woman Blinded At Ryder Cup

[dowie]

Perhaps you should actually educate yourslef on the McDonalds coffee case:

The coffee wasn't merely hot, it caused severe burns
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The victim only wanted here medical costs covered, and the reason the coffee was so hot was a business strategy of McDonalds to force people to leave the premises to drink the coffee later.

You;'re the third person to post further details about the case. I did vaguely recall that case when putting forth that example, but it isn't too important. Just because some websites have backed her case doesn't make it some universal truth that the lawsuit wasn't frivolous.

Regardless, as per above, having read the details I'd still think it is rather silly, hot drinks cause burns? Well no ****.

If you make cup of tea with water just boiled from a kettle then that would be even hotter than the coffee she was served between 82-88 degrees.

Well given you're all saying that this was predictable and was in fact predicted by the company (hence a warning) surely it is the result of negligence?

It isn't clear that there wasn't a warning on the tickets.

 

[The_Abyss]

So she didn't hear the warnings from the tee box, but expected the marshals to?

Perhaps she expected the course marshals to have good (radio?) communication at all times to monitor and maintain course safety. I've no idea - let's see what gets said in the press, or in court if it gets that far.

 

[Nasher]

Problem is once someone smacks the ball it's quite hard to see where it going to land until the last second. You won't really get a warning unless your actually watching it yourself.

 

[Raymond Lin]

Ice Hockey goalie is the dress code from now on.

 

[Roar87]

Anyone can hit a wayward shot, even the professionals. As 200sols mentioned, that would need to be the extent of safety procedures to guarantee people's safety.

I don't follow golf, but how wayward was the shot? It would seem to me to be an accident waiting to happen hitting golfballs towards areas crowded with people

 

[dowie]

I guess perhaps golf spectators could start wearing oakley sunglasses or similar and/or a sturdy hat if particularly worried about this risk.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

The article I read suggested that she was pursuing compensation in order to cover her medical bills now and in the futue, otherwise she has to stump it all up herself.

If I unexpectedly went blind in one eye after a freak accident, i would be doing the same thing to cover my medical costs too.

To be honest, and this is the area I work in, I see a breakdown of compensation claims and the various stuff they claim for and it's usually for the money they don't want to lose out on in the past, present & future. Sometimes there are also changes that have to be made to their home, car and other such things.
One of the best I saw (but rightfully so) was a woman who was now paraplegic and the best holidays that would cater for her needs would now be cruises. Sounds daft but it was all laid out and made perfect sense.

 

[Semple]

I don't follow golf, but how wayward was the shot? It would seem to me to be an accident waiting to happen hitting golfballs towards areas crowded with people

Nothing too horrendous. The crowds will expect the professionals to be consistently hitting the fairways, so that's what they crowd around, as soon as a shot isn't heading for the fairway, it's landing right in the crowd.

It is an accident waiting to happen, correct. But if you go to an event like this, you're supposed to be fully alert and watching. If you see the ball heading your way, you either move, or duck and protect your head - much worse to have a big bruise on your arm, than on the head.

 

[Mason-]

I wouldn't be surprised if the golfer themselves doesn't feel bad and pay for her medical expenses, for glorious twitter and press bonus points.

 

[mmj_uk]

I don't follow golf, but how wayward was the shot? It would seem to me to be an accident waiting to happen hitting golfballs towards areas crowded with people

It looked like the tee shot was sliced wide of the fairway/green, the only way you could prevent something like that in the future is to ban spectators but how long have spectators been going to golf without serious injuries? it's just a freak accident and probably her not paying attention to him teeing off. You've got as much chance of someone being seriously injured by a six in cricket but people tend to pay more attention.

 

[wolfie138]

why can they not have netting in front of spectator areas?

 

[Uther]

I'd be trying to sue as well, and I suspect most people would, no matter what they say on the internet. She's probably hoping they will make an out of court settlement to avoid any more bad publicity.

 

[byeo]

why can they not have netting in front of spectator areas?

Because where the spectators are standing is also "in play". Only certain areas of the course are deemed out of bounds.

 

[Haze]

Bet she has taken balls to the face before

 

[Jonnybmac]

I don't blame her for suing. Regardless of the event or danger, if i was injured in an accident at someones event I'd put a claim in just as id put a claim in if I had a crash in a car and was injured. That's what insurance is there for.

 

[randomshenans]

As for her medical bills, don’t they have free healthcare in France!

Nope. You pay for it. We pay about 1500 a month for our family.

 

[Mak3R]

I wouldn't be surprised if the golfer themselves doesn't feel bad and pay for her medical expenses, for glorious twitter and press bonus points.

I thought that too. I'm sure whoever hit the shot must feel bad even though it was obviously an accident.

 

[Orionaut]

It's absolutely tragic, but her initial reaction shouldn't be compensation.

No, She has experienced a life changing injury.

She Does deserve compensation.

However, there should be a system of "No Fault Compensation" in place to mitigate accidents of this nature.

The current process where by one can only get redress if somebody else can be found to blame is monstrous.

(And the only people that ultimately benefits from it are the bloody Lawyers! )

 

[samurl]

What does she expect to get...?

All golfers should be insured with specialist golf insurance which is easily picked up and covers that liability. Professional golfers in particular who travel the world will certainly be well equipped with the right level insurance for playing in front of such large crowds, and will pay the price for it. It is actually normally one of the questions asked if taking out a more specialized golf insurance policy, which I have personally done several times.

The marshals are a collective, no single person is responsible for ensuring a persons safety, nor are they ultimately responsible if someone does get struck by a ball (or anything else for that matter). As stated in the article, it's like a chain reaction down the hole with people shouting 'fore!' and that's the ultimate warning for the crowd. If you're hard of hearing, or simply do not hear the shout, well you just better hope the ball isn't heading towards you.

A guy broke his leg near that spot due to sliding down a wet grass verge where the crowds were congregating and subsequently trapped his ankle in a rabbit hole (or similar). Is that now somehow the marshals fault as well?

Really grinds my gears when people's initial thought is to try and cause expense to someone else inappropriately. Claim off Brooks' insurance, simple as that...

 

[dowie]

No, She has experienced a life changing injury.

She Does deserve compensation.

However, there should be a system of "No Fault Compensation" in place to mitigate accidents of this nature.

The current process where by one can only get redress if somebody else can be found to blame is monstrous.

(And the only people that ultimately benefits from it are the bloody Lawyers! )

Why? If there isn't anyone at fault then, while it is sad she's been injured why does she deserve compensation from others? Unfortunately that's just life, sometimes **** things happen to people, I'm not sure why they then require payments in no fault cases.

And would your argument also apply to some otherwise healthy individual who gets diagnosed with cancer or other illnesses? They're unlucky too and have had something bad happen to them that wasn't anyones fault in particular.