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Originally Posted by jaysay
That's another victory for common sense, £300,000 for slipping on a grape, especially when you hear how much they are giving our servicemen who have been badly injured fight for our country, this compensation lark has got out of hand, we're becoming more like America every day
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The reason for large payments for injuries like that is to hit companies as hard as reasonably possible so they dont keep being negligent. I think £300,000 is still too low of a sum to make the company avoid such things again, and the only other option would be to give the defendants a small percentage and pump the rest of the money into more suitable things, but then thats not going to be accepted by many people
