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Accident compensation claim news
19/03/2008
Solicitor's letter leaves couple bemused
A paramedic who suffered ligament damage to his left ankle after tripping on an allegedly dimly-lit garden step while attending to the emergency call of an 82-year-old woman suffering from chest pains is making an accident compensation claim against the woman and her 83-year-old husband.
The accident compensation claim writ served by the paramedic's no win, no fee solicitor states that he is seeking damages for personal injury and lost earnings. As the man suffered his injuries outside of the ambulance, he cannot claim work injury compensation, making a personal injury claim against the elderly couple his only route to obtaining compensation.
A letter sent by the solicitor to the couple alleges that the accident occurred because of problems with their security light. It says: "The light was either faulty because of a lack of maintenance or had not been programmed correctly in that the light was not on for sufficient time to allow someone to walk along the driveway and reach the front door.
"Furthermore the drop from the level of the driveway to the adjoining pathway is itself dangerous."
Although the 82-year-old was given the green light by hospital staff at the time, two years previously she suffered a heart attack, making her concern about her chest pains entirely understandable.
She and her husband have branded the claim as "morally wrong", with the 82-year-old commenting, "I thought the letter was a joke at first but both myself and my husband fail to see how we could be at fault for his accident."
"The security light may have switched itself off but the porch light was on, as were the street lights and the ambulance had been left open so there was the light from that."
