“Gary Prentice, 45, a former forklift truck driver, looks certain to lose the executive home, worth an estimated ?200,000, that he bought with the pay-out. … [As] news spread of the payment five years after the accident, neighbours began to question Mr Prentice’s version. They said he had not broken his ankle on a grassed area maintained by East Cambridgeshire district council but had done it while playing with his stepson.” Moral: watch out for those pesky neighbors (David Sapsted, Daily Telegraph, Sept. 11). “Speaking in Los Angeles on Monday, Lord Levene, Lloyd’s chairman, attacked America’s compensation culture as ‘pernicious, cancerous and ruinous’ and added that Britain was ‘falling into the same abyss’.” (“A litigious nation” (editorial), Daily Telegraph, Sept. 17).
“Man who claimed he fell down pothole must pay back ?238,000”
“Gary Prentice, 45, a former forklift truck driver, looks certain to lose the executive home, worth an estimated ?200,000, that he bought with the pay-out. … [As] news spread of the payment five years after the accident, neighbours began to question Mr Prentice’s version. They said he had not broken his ankle on a grassed […]
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