it is horrendous how little they are worth
a thumb is about £7k and an eye, which is the most expensive, is only about £60k.

however, you then get additional damages for pain and suffering, and then on top of that you claim for your loss of earnings etc. so if you were a porn star, you could expect considerably more than £15k...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:18, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

haha that's true
I couldn't believe that a leg was only worth something like £8k, considering these people who get fake whiplash receive £2k.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:22, Reply)

or psychological trauma and get tens of thousands
i worked on the ladbroke grove rail disaster, in a tiny gimplike capacity. the number of people who died and were seriously injured... then you had loads of people who were perfectly healthy claiming tens of thousands of pounds because they were traumatised and couldn't bear to look a train in the face again.

yeah yeah. now take your four fully functioning limbs and sod off, there's people whose lives have been truly devastated here.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:25, Reply)