FBOTY#2 smidsy settlement!

total GBP 45,000. Net: GBP 32,500.

As some of you may remember, the FBOTY#2 was earned
by me being SMIDSY'd on 29 Jan 2002. The offer by
the guilty party has been accepted, and I thought
I'd report back here.

The accident resulted in:

a repairable new R1150GS (only had what, 600 miles
on the clock when the dozy blind bint t-boned me?),
now owned by someone else of this parish unless he's
sold it on. (how's it running? What's the mileage?)

a not so repairable but suitably bodged left knee which
has cost UKP 12,000 so far in operations and may cost
more later. If anyone finds my kneecap I want it back.

On barrister's advice (paraphrasing: It's a bloody
generous offer and you're stupid if you don't take it.
I may be slow, but I'm not that stupid.) I've insurance
offer of GBP 45,000 for pain, suffering, loss of income,
and several other things we sorta threw into the
pile. Solicitors fees to be recovered separately.

So net of about GBP 32,500 in damages to my account.

That should pay for a couple years of university.
I really need to make the money last though, so no
new bike for me.

I's chuffed.

 

<snip>

Good luck, mate. Glad it ended happily, though I strongly suspect that
(like The Doctor) you'd rather not have had the crash in the first
place.

Anyway, may I just say now: Angle Grinder

Dammit, wrong thread.

OK: Gixxer Thou!

 

Marc D says...

That's a good result, but I'm sure that no matter how much the
settlement was you'd still rather it never happened.

Good luck with the rest of your time dealing with the knee

 

<snip>

Gods, I remember that. Well done ... I suppose.

 

Too fucking right.

Thinking a light KTM, for when I want a bash at the back
roads around here...

 

fair play , did she get done for the accident

 

Got it in one.

Not much else to do now. I'm apparently due for a
replacement in 15 years or so and I still can't walk
for any distance. Oh well. At least this fucking
court case is over, and I now (well, in a few weeks)
have enough money to pay for stuff again.

 

Marc D emerged from their own little world to say

Good.

PhD now then?

 

Marc D wrote

Another zero would have been nice though.

 

Great news, Marc! Really pleased.

 

steve robinson wrote:
[...]

She was charged, but CPS apparently never prosecuted.
What research I did showed this is relativly common when
the victim is a motorcycle, but my inquiries for more
detailed numbers we met with a "we don't keep those
numbers" dodge.

 

Result! As per others (being FBOTY 2003 and having crushed vertibrae and
damaged back muscles) I'm sure you'd rather have not been there. My claim
is still pending. I'm on weekly physio(with acupuncture this week) but the
X Rays show the break to to stable(loss of 33% height at the front of L1)

 

Sigh. Yes, it would. If the accident had
been in the US I'd have gotten it too. But it
was in the UK, where the settlements seem to
be dictated by the insurance companies, who
will generally pay the least possible.
For a UK settlement, it was pretty good. ish.

I was trying to be fucking positive for once!

 

wessie wrote:
[...]

It's under consideration, yes.
Lots of time before I get there though.

 

Marc D wrote

Have you seen what you have to do for a phd? Can you drink that much
beer?

 

Marc D scribbled:

Well done Marc.

Good to see they've finally got it settled and you're in the black.

Pity it wasn't more though.

£32k should be enough to pay for a whole course! The student grants
only about £2k a year and that suposedly gives enough to live on (if
you like living in a hovel and eating Aldi beans

 

Bear scribbled:

Have you seen how much the Government payout table pays?

Like £1500 for a lost leg.

*Thats* bloody stupid.

 

entwisi scribbled:

Has anyone else got a claim thats taken/taking longer than mine?

Accident 22nd June 2001, claim still not settled (due to my leg playing
silly buggers)

 

Marc D scribbled:

The One Who Smells of Wee doesn't know the meaning of positive. You
just keep the chin up.

 

Bear says...

I don't think it makes up for it at all. I was going by previous cases
I'd heard about where the victim didn't get anywhere near as much for
losing a kneecap. In that respect marc got a good result, because I
dare say he wouldn't have got any more had he hung it out, just a
shitload more stress to add to what he's already suffered.