Compensation Of Any Amount

[JinnyJoan]

I just don't get people wanting like a million or more for things happening to them.  How can you spend millions in your lifetime.  

I am happy with what I have per month.  It helps me to get through - what are your thoughts.  

[Buenchico]

A million pounds doesn't actually buy you that much these days.  For example, it's roughly the price of a 2-bedroom terraced house on the seafront here in Suffolk (in Southwold, for example, where a small beach hut can sell for a quarter of a millon pounds).

[Canary42]

1 million invested in a totally safe savings account at say 2% will bring you in £400 per week (slightly aove the minimum wage), and also leave you with a nice legacy to bequeath to your inheritors.

What's not to like 😀

[Canary42]

*above

[Old_Geezer]

I could spend a million very easily. Especially if I had to invest a portion for future maintenance arrangements.

 

In fact if the lottery wanted to send me a few hundred millions I could likely find uses for it. 

[THECORBYLOON]

If someone needed constant care around the clock, involving specialist treatment, that £400 a week in interest would soon go.

[nicebloke1]

Claiming compensation is an epidemic and has been for a long time in the US, some lawyers have become experts at claiming. Its been turning into a pandemic for some time. Who would want to be in the business of the insurance?

[barry1010]

If a young person needs round the clock care for life due to an accident that is going to be expensive. The NHS and social services will provide the basics (hopefully) but nowhere near enough for quality of life.

[nicebloke1]

Suing has become a hobby in the US for just about anything :○)

[douglas9401]

Nice appropriation of 'pandemic' there, nicebloke.

Did you consider 'tsunami' too much? 🙄

[wolf63]

I just noticed an article about a man who went into hospital to get a leg removed.  The Surgeon removed the wrong leg.

Do you think suing for compensation would be wrong in a case like that?

 

[davebro3]

I think the OP may be referring to compensation for things which - on the face of it - may not involve the claimant in substantial financial loss but they still seem to want big bucks...

[davebro3]

//Do you think suing for compensation would be wrong in a case like that?//

In court I don't think he would have a leg to stand on!🤣