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People with silly law suitsFiled Under: Life

I’ll elaborate here, but sometimes I wonder why people do this so often.

Okay so here’s the back-story to this little vent of mine. A friend of mine, wife and mother of two, very respected, helps out with her children’s schools a lot, very friendly and nice, is being sued. When she told me this I immediately asked why!? She said that during all the cold weather, her car had slipped a little on the ice coming out of the car park near her children’s school, which meant that she bumped the car of another parent, whilst they were sitting in it. My friend had just started her car, and wouldn’t even have been going 5km per hour, and the other car was stationary, as the woman hadn’t started it yet, waiting for my friend to exit the car park first.

My friend got out and spoke to the other driver, apologising, and swapped car insurance information in spite of there not being any damage, even to the paint on the bumper bars. A fortnight later she received a letter in the post, telling her that the driver of the other car was suing her for physical trauma caused by the car accident, saying that she’d not been able to work for a week, and was possibly going to need more time off.

My friend was stunned, appalled, and is intending to fight it in court. We think she’s got a good case, because she took photos of where the damage would have been had there been any, for the insurance people, so that’s good. I mean, if there’s no external damage to the cars, how can this lady say that she’s got internal damage!? When my friend rang the car insurance people she was asked to get a quote from one of their authorised people, but when she told them there was no damage to either of the cars, they told her there was no need for any further action.

We pretty much think that this piece of work lady has been on one of those rediculous sites with ‘personal injury calculators’ and just made some symptoms up, faked it with her doctor, then trotted on into some not-so-good firm with personal injury claims lawyers and is seeing what she can get. Seriously, the legal profession must be as frustrated with these people as much as my friend and I are.

Okay now I have vented over that, I’ll speak of better things… knitting! Today’s pattern is Ice Queen! Hehehe, yeah, I’m totally poking fun, but this is a very beautiful pattern anyway.

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