Injured biker awarded £3million damages

I'd rather have my life back.

Was Ms Willis charged, did she get a disqualification or do time?

Posted: 04/03/2008 at 01:51

£3 million sounds a lot .... but not if you've lost the use of your legs for the rest of your life.

I'd rather have my body in full working order tbh, and be penniless for ever.

Posted: 04/03/2008 at 02:09

well at least it should help ease his life, ultimately nothing can replace your health

Posted: 04/03/2008 at 02:52

From the way it is worded it could be anything. It could be that he hit her and his own insurance took 5 years to cough up. Regardless of what happened, 5 years is a ridiculous amount of time to be waiting for money owed when your paralysed! 5 years to come to the conclusion he wasn't faking it!?

Posted: 04/03/2008 at 05:26

The insurance industry really is the biggest scam imaginable. To think the sort of premiums that are routinely paid out in the name of cover in the event of an accident, the majority of insurers are blatantly incompetent when it comes to actually dealing with and settling claims. For the loss of earnings alone I'd imagine the 3 million is only just sufficient, for a lifetime now unable to work or perform any kind of real life.

Bloody shambles. 

spunkymonkeySK wrote (see)

From the way it is worded it could be anything. It could be that he hit her and his own insurance took 5 years to cough up. Regardless of what happened, 5 years is a ridiculous amount of time to be waiting for money owed when your paralysed! 5 years to come to the conclusion he wasn't faking it!?

Posted: 04/03/2008 at 09:27

Being paralysed he needed constant nursing and assistance, and despite the improvements that he has made, he will for the rest of his life, and that will cost an awful lot, and then factor in the cost of adapting everything in your life to fit your disability, and suddenly that doesnt leave very much money as actual compensation to improve over what he just needs to survive...

and on a similar line... apparently people who go blind have to wait about 18 months before any gvnt help kicks in... bloody awful

Posted: 04/03/2008 at 09:36

Yes, the insurance industry stinks.  They drag everything out to the very last moment - except when it comes to collecting premiums.

Five years is indeed a long time.  They delay any final decision until such times that there will be no further improvement in patient's condition.  They then pay out on that (hopefully improved) condition and not on the condition at the time of the incident.

It is not uncommon for interim payment(s) to be made to patient - but one generally has to fight for these.

Posted: 04/03/2008 at 11:36

i agree with the majority you cant put value to yours legs

Posted: 04/03/2008 at 18:52