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Just found out from my younger Brother that he has received a reply from the Armed Forces Compensation Board, reference his claim. He received a paper cut wound to his finger when a complete buffoon in his office had a rogue piece of paper in Kosovo and shoved it at him whilst he was an adminer. A few years later he broke his thumb nail drinking in a mess with a leaking roof.
Have a guess how much compensation he was awarded? Needless to say he refused it...
£2400 million billion.
He is off to see his solicitor as that just isn't enough for the horrific injuries he suffered.
Have a guess how much compensation he was awarded? Needless to say he refused it...
£2400 million billion.
He is off to see his solicitor as that just isn't enough for the horrific injuries he suffered.
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The Armed Forces Compensation Scheme...provides compensation for all injuries, ill-health and deaths that are mainly due (attributable) to service, the main cause of which occurred on or after the introduction of the scheme on 6 April 2005. (end of quote)
Negligence need not be proven by anyone. It is based on a tariff scheme and if your brothers ankle injury is as serious as you say, he should be looking at more than £2,400. If he has claimed for his gunshot wound then if it is written up well, he could be looking at more. If they are claimed together, the lower tariff of the two will be reduced by a set percentage.
The AFCS award does not affect any civil action (which would be due to the magic 'negligence' word, and bring in all sorts of extra factors. Future earnings for one.)
Ambulance chasing lawyers don't normally take on the MoD, but your local solicitors should have a Personal Injury Dept. They might even do no win - no fee, and their fee will be claimed against the MoD, not your award.
I'm fairly sure you've got to do this within 3 years of the accident.
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Negligence need not be proven by anyone. It is based on a tariff scheme and if your brothers ankle injury is as serious as you say, he should be looking at more than £2,400. If he has claimed for his gunshot wound then if it is written up well, he could be looking at more. If they are claimed together, the lower tariff of the two will be reduced by a set percentage.
The AFCS award does not affect any civil action (which would be due to the magic 'negligence' word, and bring in all sorts of extra factors. Future earnings for one.)
Ambulance chasing lawyers don't normally take on the MoD, but your local solicitors should have a Personal Injury Dept. They might even do no win - no fee, and their fee will be claimed against the MoD, not your award.
I'm fairly sure you've got to do this within 3 years of the accident.
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".......There is no doubt that ordering the men under your command to go and play football is perfectly legal........"
What a pity the RSM forgot to order them not to get injured otherwise they might have judgement passed on them by unsympathetic lardar$es like Spheroid who of course would have told the RSM what he could do with his "reasonable order" ....(oops - legal order).
It has clearly slipped the mind of some of the posters here that adventure and sport are amongst the reasons young people join up. Are you saying that we should just scrap squadron/regiment and representative sport?
Our people can risk their lives in Afghanistan on an hourly basis but heaven help them if they twist an ankle in the gym.
What a pity the RSM forgot to order them not to get injured otherwise they might have judgement passed on them by unsympathetic lardar$es like Spheroid who of course would have told the RSM what he could do with his "reasonable order" ....(oops - legal order).
It has clearly slipped the mind of some of the posters here that adventure and sport are amongst the reasons young people join up. Are you saying that we should just scrap squadron/regiment and representative sport?
Our people can risk their lives in Afghanistan on an hourly basis but heaven help them if they twist an ankle in the gym.
I don't know whether it's just that some posters on this thread are as thick as pig$hit and just don't understand, or whether they're simply unwilling to accept that being ordered to play football is fine, but not if the 'pitch' has already been reported as being dangerously hazardous.
And that playing football should be considered as low a risk-free event as possible - nothing remotely the same as soldiering in a hostile environment.
I don't know why there has been such unpleasantness on this thread - £2400 for a life damaged by an entirely avoidable sports injury is certainly worth contesting.
And that playing football should be considered as low a risk-free event as possible - nothing remotely the same as soldiering in a hostile environment.
I don't know why there has been such unpleasantness on this thread - £2400 for a life damaged by an entirely avoidable sports injury is certainly worth contesting.
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some posters on this thread are as thick as pig$hit
I don't know why there has been such unpleasantness on this thread
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I think that both injuries, because they are not related to the same incident can be claimed at 100% of the relevant AFCS tariff. I know the British Legion are very interested in the whole AFCS process, therefore it may be worth giving them a call. Good luck.
I think your remark reference people being thick as pig**** is rather unpleasant in the same way some of their remarks are
...to any pigs who may have felt insulted by my comments.
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I don't know whether it's just that some posters on this thread are as thick as pig$hit and just don't understand, or whether they're simply unwilling to accept that being ordered to play football is fine, but not if the 'pitch' has already been reported as being dangerously hazardous.
And that playing football should be considered as low a risk-free event as possible - nothing remotely the same as soldiering in a hostile environment.
I don't know why there has been such unpleasantness on this thread - £2400 for a life damaged by an entirely avoidable sports injury is certainly worth contesting.
And that playing football should be considered as low a risk-free event as possible - nothing remotely the same as soldiering in a hostile environment.
I don't know why there has been such unpleasantness on this thread - £2400 for a life damaged by an entirely avoidable sports injury is certainly worth contesting.
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Gents. What can I say? I have the utmost sympathy to the family, friends and colleagues of the individuals on here that have shown themselves to nothing more that a bunch of morons. Your weekends must be full of fun. Your attitudes astonish me, suffice to say that I am really glad I have 4 weeks left in the RAF. l Hope what happened to by Brother does not happen to you.
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Cheesedof,
I can understand your frustrations with some of the replies that you have received on this thread.
Unfortunately the way you presented the situation in your earlier posts did not help.
For example you mentioned a gunshot wound to your brothers back, but he still had the ability to play football.
He plays football because he is ordered to and then slips on some water that has come from a leaking roof in the Gym.
Then you say “subsequent fisticuffs with the bloke who shot him may have held back promotion”.
If that was not bad enough, you then state that that the medics “buggered up the operation”.
Now to post that kind of stuff on PPrune Military Aircrew is like a red rag to a bull for some people. They will destroy you!!!!
It has been mentioned here by yourself and other members that this site is full of people who get their information from the Sun newspaper and spend their entire weekends on pprune moaning about something or other. They particularly specialize in verbally attacking/abusing people with disgusting comments and generally preach that black is white and vice versa when it suits them. I am sorry to say that seems to be so true. Let me give you an example: Slag off any ex-serving member that dares to post on this site on one thread and then on another, slag off the government/MOD for not looking after ex-servicemen. I could give many more such examples of the hypocrisy preached here, but I am sure it would bore you.
Many years ago, PPrune was a place where you could have discussions/arguments similar to what you had in the Officers/Sgts Mess on a Friday night. Those days have long gone. Now it is full of people who don’t go to mess’s for a drink but like to stay behind the safety of a computer monitor, with an un-recognisable name, causing as much ill feeling as possible. How brave they are.
I don’t know whether the story about your brother is true or false (I would like to believe that it is true with the naivety of some of your posts) but a bit of advice: don’t look for an answer or sympathy here on this web site. You are better off popping down to your local for the discussion.
I wish you all the best leaving the RAF and I hope your brother gets what he is due. (If it is a true story).
And by the way....how come this thread has not been deleted......for not having anything to do with aviation........??
I can understand your frustrations with some of the replies that you have received on this thread.
Unfortunately the way you presented the situation in your earlier posts did not help.
For example you mentioned a gunshot wound to your brothers back, but he still had the ability to play football.
He plays football because he is ordered to and then slips on some water that has come from a leaking roof in the Gym.
Then you say “subsequent fisticuffs with the bloke who shot him may have held back promotion”.
If that was not bad enough, you then state that that the medics “buggered up the operation”.
Now to post that kind of stuff on PPrune Military Aircrew is like a red rag to a bull for some people. They will destroy you!!!!
It has been mentioned here by yourself and other members that this site is full of people who get their information from the Sun newspaper and spend their entire weekends on pprune moaning about something or other. They particularly specialize in verbally attacking/abusing people with disgusting comments and generally preach that black is white and vice versa when it suits them. I am sorry to say that seems to be so true. Let me give you an example: Slag off any ex-serving member that dares to post on this site on one thread and then on another, slag off the government/MOD for not looking after ex-servicemen. I could give many more such examples of the hypocrisy preached here, but I am sure it would bore you.
Many years ago, PPrune was a place where you could have discussions/arguments similar to what you had in the Officers/Sgts Mess on a Friday night. Those days have long gone. Now it is full of people who don’t go to mess’s for a drink but like to stay behind the safety of a computer monitor, with an un-recognisable name, causing as much ill feeling as possible. How brave they are.
I don’t know whether the story about your brother is true or false (I would like to believe that it is true with the naivety of some of your posts) but a bit of advice: don’t look for an answer or sympathy here on this web site. You are better off popping down to your local for the discussion.
I wish you all the best leaving the RAF and I hope your brother gets what he is due. (If it is a true story).
And by the way....how come this thread has not been deleted......for not having anything to do with aviation........??
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It has been mentioned here by yourself and other members that this site is full of people who get their information from the Sun newspaper and spend their entire weekends on PPRuNe moaning about something or other. They particularly specialize in verbally attacking/abusing people with disgusting comments and generally preach that black is white and vice versa when it suits them. I am sorry to say that seems to be so true. Let me give you an example: Slag off any ex-serving member that dares to post on this site on one thread and then on another, slag off the government/MOD for not looking after ex-servicemen. I could give many more such examples of the hypocrisy preached here, but I am sure it would bore you.
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And by the way....how come this thread has not been deleted......for not having anything to do with aviation........??
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spheroid and taxyduel.......thanks.
I was going to comment on the lack of comments following my post....but following the huge loss by the brave Lions, I can’t be bothered.
Just about to fire up my gas BBQ, drink a beer and look at the cobwebs gathering on my beautiful Weber that I keep to the side just in case I run out of patio gas.
I was going to comment on the lack of comments following my post....but following the huge loss by the brave Lions, I can’t be bothered.
Just about to fire up my gas BBQ, drink a beer and look at the cobwebs gathering on my beautiful Weber that I keep to the side just in case I run out of patio gas.
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A little chat in a suitable soundproof room would have been good in the first instance - but the opportunity was lost.
This thread is going nowhere fast and is just a habitat for smart arse comments and that's about all.
Closed!
This thread is going nowhere fast and is just a habitat for smart arse comments and that's about all.
Closed!