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    #32
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 83,460 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Triangle wrote: »
    The cost to us is in increased insurance costs.
    A shop in Galway has over a 100k insurance cost every year. That cost gets put on goods.

    We pay in the end.

    Should settlements and injury compensation be abolished?


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    #33
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 83,460 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    jay0109 wrote: »
    That someone could buy it without looking at the date in the shop is something.
    That someone could then pour it without noticing it was off is quiet something.
    That someone could then drink enough of it to be sick for a day without copping on the first taste of it that it way off is beyond something.

    But here's 10k for your stupidity...it's always someone else's fault

    I shop in reliable grocers and I never really check the dates on anything, never really have to, certainly not within a week. "Manager's Special" ie. closeout items notwithstanding.

    These were kids that drank it, and are we sure how they consumed it? As a drink? In cereal? A recipe?

    The liability is ultimately the grocer who is licensed and regulated to keep expired products off shelves.


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    #34
    Triangle
    Registered Users Posts: 960 ✭✭✭Triangle


    Overheal wrote: »
    Should settlements and injury compensation be abolished?

    Imo yes. The new Zealand model is as close to perfect as is out there atm.

    They pay for the rehabilitation and damage done, it removes the compo culture (in a good way) see below for how a no fault system works in a way that its spread over every business. (taken from the acc website)

    "The Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) provides compulsory insurance cover for personal injury for everyone in New Zealand, whether a citizen, resident or visitor.

    This means if you are injured by an accident in New Zealand, ACC may pay some of your medical and rehabilitation costs.

    ACC is a no-fault scheme – the only one of its kind in the world. It applies regardless of who caused the accident – including you. But it also means you can’t sue for any costs that relate to the injury or its negative effects. "


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    #35
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 76,552 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Closing this and going to be deleting a large number of posts speculating over the motives behind parties involved here

    I'm not proposing to re-op0en it as that will simply encourage more such speculation, and TBH, the thread would quickly fall off the front page but for speculation


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