Big_Rick78
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Apart from your balance when walking on ice
Injury on an icy course
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Apart from your balance when walking on ice
jpenno
Head Pro
If there on a no win no fee agreement what success fee are they charging? If its 100% then they reckon its a 50/50 case. Not quite as strong as you think ;-).
Are you using a claims management company or Solicitors?. The claims management companies will take the claim so they can SELL you onto a firm of solicitors at a later stage.
The Solicitors will have advised you its a decent case to sign you up to a Conditional Fee Agreement (no win no fee) NOW as the rules regarding these and legal costs change on the 1st April this year and they need to sign up as many cases as possible prior to that date and then hope that insurers will settle.
Would be interested to know which firm you have instructed and which insurer the Defendants have.
Would also be prepared to wager £5 that you lose.
Colin2324
Medal Winner
On that note I don't think there is any need for further contribution from me on this thread.
Cheers to all who contributed. It's certainly food for thought.
chrisd
Major Champion
Has anyone considered how impossible it would be to inspect a course, every inch, several times a day due to changing conditions and temperatures so that a fully grown adult can walk round ignoring the responsibility he has to look after his own health and safety! If you couldn't see that the frost turning to ice wasn't dangerous, and more care was needed, how the hell do you think someone else should spot it and think to treat you like a five year old and find a way, on what was probably a 15 acre field, to single you out to tell you?
I have badly injured myself on a sports field and it never crossed my mind that someone else should foot the bill for my time off and numerous operations, I knew the risk and accepted them. Please don't insult our intelligence by trying to shift the blame anywhere else and accept that accidents do happen and you know that a golf course is by its very nature a place to excersise care!
I have badly injured myself on a sports field and it never crossed my mind that someone else should foot the bill for my time off and numerous operations, I knew the risk and accepted them. Please don't insult our intelligence by trying to shift the blame anywhere else and accept that accidents do happen and you know that a golf course is by its very nature a place to excersise care!
Big_Rick78
Head Pro
Can I be brutally honest?
I hope you lose and break the other one in a stumble down the court stairs when leaving.
Mind you,that would no doubt start the process up all over again!
I hope you lose and break the other one in a stumble down the court stairs when leaving.
Mind you,that would no doubt start the process up all over again!
Big_Rick78
Head Pro
Can I be brutally honest?
I hope you lose and break the other one in a stumble down the court stairs when leaving.
Mind you,that would no doubt start the process up all over again!
:rofl::rofl:
Colin2324
Medal Winner
Cant really answer a fair bit of that as it might identify the precise case and i want to avoid that.
Suffice to say that I have a legally binding contract which ensures I don't pay anything to anyone if the case is lost and there is a percentage fee due to the agent if I win
stevie_r
Tour Winner
Can I be brutally honest?
I hope you lose and break the other one in a stumble down the court stairs when leaving.
Mind you,that would no doubt start the process up all over again!
straight out of the snooker ball in a sock school of sympathy
Colin2324
Medal Winner
Can I be brutally honest?
I hope you lose and break the other one in a stumble down the court stairs when leaving.
Mind you,that would no doubt start the process up all over again!
youre a right barrel of laughs aren't you ?
jpenno
Head Pro
So you are with a claims management company, NOT a firm of solicitors - I hope the After the event insurance they have got you to take out is worth the paper its written on.
Colin2324
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Nothing for you ( or me ) to worry about but thanks anyway. Do people really enter into these things without asking 'what if I lose'
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jpenno
Head Pro
Yes they do - Resolving the fallout from them is how I pay for my Course fees!!.
chrisd
Major Champion
youre a right barrel of laughs aren't you ?
But on this issue he probably echoes the sentiments of the majority!
sajkox
Club Champion
few things I haven't considered before.
My assumptions were made on a fact that insurance covers everything. but am I right to think that GC would still need to pay lawyers costs ? If so then it changes my view a little bit.
Again - personally I would go and have a chat, Or in current situation - send a letter.
I'm all after using your right to sue as long as its not causing damage to the club (which I believe is possible)
My assumptions were made on a fact that insurance covers everything. but am I right to think that GC would still need to pay lawyers costs ? If so then it changes my view a little bit.
Again - personally I would go and have a chat, Or in current situation - send a letter.
I'm all after using your right to sue as long as its not causing damage to the club (which I believe is possible)
jpenno
Head Pro
The Golf Course have public liability insurance and this will cover their legal fees, subject to them having to pay the policy excess which could be upto £5k, Their insurance premiums will increase whislt the claim is pending and they may have new clauses and conditions inserted before next years renewal.
The Golf course will be able to recover their legal costs when they win from either the OP or his own legal expense insurance policy, there are however, several insurance companies who are currently refusing to pay out on lost claims and/or in financial problems and may not be around when this claim comes to court
Colin2324
Medal Winner
The sentiments of the majority was precisely what I was looking for when I posted. I have no problem accepting the views on this thread. Be a bit silly posting it if I wasnt prepared for the views to aired.
sajkox
Club Champion
lol I would feel like donk if I went to sue knowing they will loose 5k due to me slipping :O
still have a letter in my mind that I think would help sort things out.
chrisd
Major Champion
You certainly know how to galvanise opinion. I'd be interested in what you would post in answer to someone else who had asked your question
Colin2324
Medal Winner
I don't believe I could ever be accused of being hypocritical. Someone in identical circumstances to me would have my support. Why would my position be anything other than that ?
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