Wife Slipped in a Shop, What to do?

[bigredshark]

My bad then, just I've laughed when my friends have fell over, as do they when I've tripped.

thats fair enough, but you don't really know the guy, it's his wife and she's going to end up with her arm in plaster for at least a week I'd imagine, so I think it's bit off trying to make like it's the funiest thing in the world.

Or I may be being stupid, but if my girlfriend fell over and broke her arm, then I wouldn't appreciate people laughing about it....

 

[Loki]

We are all very sorry about your wife slipping over and fractured her elbow.
However I do suggest she learns from her own mistakes and try not to slip over again in the near future.

I really am astounded with some of the replies in this thread. A new member looking for some advice and most people are jumping on his back or telling his wife to be more carefull. Do you really think she went out of her way to slip and fracture her elbow.

 

[fini]

laws may not change, interpretation of everything changes all the time, likelyhood of a judge/jury making certain decisions changes even if the law doesn't.

Judges at the High Court can't suddenly overrule a House of Lords case and there hasn't been a big case on negligence (pretty much the largest area of tort in practical terms) since the 30's. The interpretation has thus not changed.

30 years ago a jury probably wouldn't be subjected to adverts promising free money for every single thing thats every gone wrong in life. now they are, its being put in our minds that thats an ok thing, and we deserve to blame people for everything. this means a jury 30 years ago would maybe tell someone sueing over a broken finger to get over it, and now they all think its ok to sue, so they say yeah, give him some money,

That was never the role of the jury and they would never be set that question. The judge would have always set them the question 'this is what the test of negligence is, have they reached that standard'. When it comes to working out damages then it has always been that damages = loss, no more, no less.

law is all about interpretation.

The law, at High Court level, is all about seeing what the House of Lords authority on a case is and then applying it.

I don't have specific figures for each area of tort law, but I can tell you that damages for defamation claims (one area in tort that has actually changed quite a bit) have consistently fallen within the last 10 years due to the introduction of the HRA. It is now harder to sue for libel and slander and, when you do, your payout is likely to be considerably less than it would have been.

 

[alexakasloth]

If you think he broke to law or something similar then try and claim compensation, she was out of work for a few days as you said.

 

[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.

 

[riddler]

just...ROFL in her face

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tbh dude if its a chain or a single store look into getting some compo its the 21st century your expected to have a go!

 

[carpmaster]

A few friends of mine were in a car which was shunted from behind. They all decided that it wasnt worth doing anything about it, but one of them thought 'what the hell, worth a go' and complained about neck pain.
This person has now got a new car, and a nice big deposit for a house and has certainly had a head start in life compared to the others who are left behind wondering what ifs .They are gutted.

Unless it was a permanent injury there's no way in hell they would get a new car and a large deposit from a whiplash injury payout. Sounds like you've been spun a line & the guy probably has the car on finance & a few thousand towards a deposit.