Outrageous Personal Injury Claims To Make You Laugh Or Cry

Posted by Sam Jones on June 26, 2011 under Personal Injury | Be the First to Comment

These may not be easy times for many people financially but some people go a little further than others to make a few extra dollars. For some, the outrageous personal injury claims people make are funny. Some might feel it is no laughing matter, and that these people are ruining the justice syste

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The lawyers can make a lot of cash out of these type of cases. The problem is that they cost a lot and work an already burdened system. Sometimes is might even appear that lawyers are the only party who stand to gain from frivolous cases.

Of course, that is not to suggest every claim is bogus. There are a great many people who have been seriously injured and deserve compensation. However, there are far too many out there who are looking to exploit the system.

There was a claim involving some workers in a company who played jokes on each other, during work time. Something went wrong and a claim was made for an accident, which was caused by one of the jokers. What makes this an outrageous personal injury claim is that when the employer was told the circumstances, they were able to fire the employees for joking around when they should have been working. In this instance the claim was also dismissed, as well as the workers.

A lady involved in an alleged vehicle accident claimed she couldn’t walk much further than a nominal amount of steps. The insurance company paid her but, disbelieving, hired someone to follow her. When it was discovered that she could walk normally, go shopping and drive, she was charged with contempt.

Outrageous personal injury claims are not just restricted to physical injury. A man filed a lawsuit against a well-known beer company because their advertisements seemed to suggest that women in bikini would materialize if he drank the beer. He didn’t just want money for the lack of women in his life. He claimed that as the adverts drove him to purchase large quantities of beer, he wanted that reimbursed too.

For help with personal injury or industrial disease claims EAD Solicitors are a great choice as they have years of experience handling everything from road traffic accident claims to asbestos claims.