he should have had a bit of a scare; losing a leg is way harsh
we acted for the insurers who had to pay out following the ladbroke grove train crash, where a passenger train hit a tube train because the driver ran a red light. by the time i got involved the claims were mostly settled, just the really big ones left, ie the ones who were getting multi-million payouts for the kind of injuries that really and truthfully made you wonder if they would have been better off dead. it was harrowing stuff. in fact, to give it a bit more context, my client was a "third tier" insurer, so they'd burned through the first £100,000,000 by the time we got involved.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladbroke_Grove_rail_crash
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 10:55, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

crikey,
i don't remember that, but it sounds horrific
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 7 Aug 2012, 11:10, Reply)