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CLAIMANT WON’T SETTLE FOR CASH
We have a claim in which a customer was seated at a booth by the front window of the restaurant and was hit by a car that careened through the front of the store. A car parked in front of the store was being driven by an elderly woman that hit the gas instead of the brakes when she slowed down to park the car. The claimant was jolted and pushed several feet away. He did have extensive injuries and we are not disputing the same.
We paid all of his medical bills and are not disputing the permanent disability that has resulted from the injury. However, he has advised us that he does not want to settle for cash, instead he want free chicken for life for himself and his family.
My client will not agree to the same as this could be very costly as the claimant is 32 years old. 40-50 years of free chicken could be a substantial amount. So now we are going to go to trial and the claimant states he will convince the Judge this would be a much better reward than money and he will get him to Order us to pay the same.
Submitted By: vixen in town on February 22, 2012
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TONGUE PIERCING CAUSES DENTAL MALPRACTICE
We have a dental malpractice claim. The patient, who fell victim to gross medical negligence by the dentist was a 28 year-old woman, who sought treatment for a cracked tooth. She had been wearing a piercing in her tongue that had badly cracked three of her top teeth from repetitively hitting her teeth when she talked or chewed.
Apparently, the dentist determined she needed to have a total of three teeth removed. She was put under anesthesia and the dentist ended up pulling all 16 teeth in her upper palate. We offered $100,000.00 to resolve the claim after we paid for her dentures and subsequent dental bills. She took the case to trial and recovered a $2 million jury verdict against the dental clinic that accidentally pulled 13 additional teeth. The jury ruled against the dentist in a malpractice lawsuit asserting dentists pulled all 16 of the patient’s top teeth by accident and then covered up his tracks by falsifying her medical chart.
Submitted By: j lo on February 22, 2012
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We insure a store that sells vitamins, which include “chews”, which are essentially vitamins in a sticky candy form. Claimant sampled a few chews that were in bowls at the counter and claimed that they caused 2 teeth to crack, requiring extensive dental work. We obtained the dental records from Claimant’s previous dentist in another state and discovered that the teeth had previously cracked and there was a note that the Claimant could not afford to have the work done. We denied the claim.
Submitted By: Nokaoi on February 19, 2012
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I had a claim years ago from a woman with a low back injury who simply did not get better, despite numerous referrals for tests, treatments and therapies by her primary physician. She’d been sent to some of the best faciliities in the state for evaluations and the doctors had universally exhausted all options they could think of–still no improvement despite it all, and no clear diagnosis. The treater was about to admit defeat when he called me to report that she’d been in for a visit and told him that the day before a giant white owl had flown down and perched on her window sill and began shouting out her name in her sister’s voice. The doc now had a sure diagnosis: she was nuts.
Submitted By: Jabber95125 on February 17, 2012
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ALLEGED CHILD MOLESTER FILES STRESS CLAIM
We received a claim for a school bus driver that alleges work stress as he was arrested for five felony counts of lewd and lascivious conduct against a minor and he states these are false charges.
His psyche claim states he was wrongly accused by the parents of three children of child molestation. During the school’s investigation process he was and continues to be harassed by parents and coworkers. He continues to maintain his innocence but there is a lot of compelling evidence against him.
Our insured is an independently owned bus company that services several school districts. We have delayed the claim to complete our investigation, but the claimant’s bail was recently revoked and we cannot schedule his deposition or arrange for a medical examination. We still have not found out why this upstanding citizen had his bail revoked, but I am sure he was framed.
This just gives me the creeps all the way around!
Submitted By: loser on February 17, 2012
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Who knew work release would be profitable?
An individual claims to have injured her back while serving her sentence of work release by washing deputies patrol vehicles. Unwitnessed and serving her time because of drug-related offenses, she’s now excused from the rest of her sentence, receiving Vicodin from the work comp Dr and is hiring an attorney to sue our client because they “owe her”. Problem is, there ae no objective findings… Just another one milking the system
Submitted By: MeMyandYOU on February 15, 2012
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DOG BITES TV ANCHOR DURING A LIVE BROADCAST
I was watching the news in Colorado as the story was about a dog that was rescued from a frozen lake. The owner of a large Mastiff let his dog off leash to run for exercise. The dog spotted a coyote and chased it onto the ice. The ice was thin and the large dog fell into the freezing the water. The fire department was called to rescue the dog. The fire department arrived 20 minutes later and was able to quickly rescue the dog. The fireman stated on camera that the dog recognized he was there to help him and swam towards him.
While the reporter was interviewing the dog owner and the firefighter she bent down to pet the dog and the dog attacked her and bit her in the face.
The dog was taken and quarantined as it appears it was not properly vaccinated. The dog owner was cited for not having his dog on a leash, the attack and not having the dog vaccinated.
The news reporter has a great workers’ compensation claim as it was all captured on camera. However, in my opinion she was the initial aggressor as she initiated the fight by petting the poor dog that had just been severely traumatized. But we all know that won’t fly and she will probably try to get additional disability if her face is scared since she is an “on air” reporter and her face is a big part of her job.
It is a dog eat dog world out there! Hope the dog owner has a good homeowner’s policy!
Submitted By: ireland on February 15, 2012
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A couple was having a wedding reception at a hotel in Paris. The bride was American and the groom was French. It was the first time that the bride had been to France and so she wasn’t aware that the electrical outlets were incompatible to American electronics. It was an hour before the event was to take place and so the bride plugged her curling iron into the electrical socket. Within seconds, the appliance caused the power to go out throughout the hotel. Unfortunately, it took 5 hours for the power to be restored. Rather than taking responsibility for the power outage, the bride blamed the hotel. The hotel manager simply shrugged his shoulders and said, “c’est la vie”. The hotel put candles on the tables in the banquet room and served cold food to the guests. Naturally, the bride threatened to sue. In response to this threat, the manager again shrugged his shoulders—and so did the groom.
Submitted By: Insanity on February 11, 2012
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