Wife Slipped in a Shop, What to do?

[Inoshishi]

Just looking for some advice,

This morning my wife was in the local newsagents at 08:30, the floor was wet, a guy had just been mopping the floor, there was one "slippery surface" sign facing the opposite direction, she went flying and landed on her elbow.

A visit to the local hospital reveals she has a fractured elbow, and is quite obviously in a lot of pain.

Now, can she do anything about it? - Never really been in a situation like this before so if anyone can offer any advice, I would be very greatful.

Thanks!

 

[Inoshishi]

Just to play devils advocate for a sec... Is your wife going to:
a) Suffer permanent injury
b) Lose significant earnings
c) Incur lots of cost for some other reason

Sounds like she has hurt herself and picked up a fracture that might get her a couple of weeks paid sick leave and then get back to her life. If so then I would say grin and bear it. If it's one of the other three then maybe call one of them no win no fee people and see what they say.

a) Probably Not
b) She will loose 3 days earnings
c) None

She has been told she will be off work for four weeks which isn't going to make her boss too happy either.

 

[Inoshishi]

lol guys, I never intended this to turn into such a heated debate, just wanted peoples opinions on it - as i said i've never been in this situation before.

I guess your right though, its not really the shops fault, they had a sign up albeit the wrong way around, so they are covered and accidents do and will happen.

I guess you just get a bit angry when things like this happen and want something done about it, but now we've all calmed down its time to just let it lie and forget about it.

 

[Inoshishi]

Wow this thread ended up much more popular than I thought it would.

She is in a lot of pain but thats to be expected because of the fracture, but thanks for the support those of you who gave it

I guess her loosing 3 days pay will be a little annoying but she has gone into work today to see if there are any light duties she can be getting on with for the next few weeks, so we will have to see about that.

Personally i'm not really into taking people to the cleaners, however this is not some small corner shop it is quite a large chain of stores, and the one thing that annoyed me is why did they decide to clean the floor at probably the shops busiest time of the day? - it wasn't as if something had spilt, they were doing the entire floor.

Also just to clear a couple of things up, she did see the sign, but it wasn't until after the fall, and as said it was facing the opposite way, and it was one sided. Also the cleaner had gone out to empty his bucket, and so she wasn't aware anyone was cleaning there at all.

After all is said and done I just hope her elbow is better soon, it was an unfortunate accident, but the shop really didn't go out of there way to make it obvious that the floor was slippy - though she did say the staff were as nice about it as they could be.