Seems dodgy. Why did her parents buy her a 3 year old? How long was she riding before the fall? Had she fallen before?
This doesn’t even make sense. It was her own horse, and even if it wasn’t, it’s a risk that can happen in the sport.
These are the worst people in society.
Like that dumb fuck who sued the Wicklow way because she tripped.
What sort of pillockry is that judgement?
They fell off *their own* wild animal. How on earth is that the fault of the centre?
Imagine getting your €140k but then your daughter’s friends not being able to do the activity they like anymore. Shit human beings.
Nobody willing to own up to their own stupidity these days.
The dangers and risks of horse riding are well known. Falling off is a part of horse riding, it happens to everyone at all levels. I bet they bought that 3 year old pony as it was cheap, because it had no training done itself!
She could have been riding a 10 year old, and still had a fall. Is there going to be 145k for anyone who gets hurt off a horse?
And it’s not like she broke her neck. She’s back horse riding 3 times a week so it clearly hasn’t bothered her too much.
You’d feel very sorry for the centre.
>When aged 10, Leah Skye Keeling fell off her own horse, a three-year-old mare
What on earth is child that age riding a horse that young, children should ride horses that are ancient because they are calm, young horses especially a 3 year old are crazy
And at 3 years old they ( the horses) have literally only started to be ridden
>and dislocated her elbow during a riding lesson at an equestrian centre.
Expensive elbow I guess
My daughter (16) got thrown while riding at the local equestrian centre last year.
Ended up with and ambulance being called, and rushed to A+E, neck blocks on, scans and x-rays, the whole shabang.
Didn’t even enter my mind to take any sort of legal action.
It’s the legal system self-perpetuating. Judge and legal teams all able to pay their bills this month 😏
145k for a dislocated elbow? Ah I’ve heard it all now. Sure I suppose she suffered PTSD after it too
This makes me think I should have sued my workplace a few years back for a serious back injury, I was young and didn’t realize you could get a house out of it. Still have the injury…
Anyone on here selling a horse. Asking for a friend ?
I guess the parents need the money to keep up with the Jones
Which is why public liability insurance is beyond many leisure/sporting businesses now and they are closing. Basically it’s got to be owned by the local council to stay open now.
Anyone putting a 10 year old on a 3 year old horse is culpable, including the parents.
And they’ll be the exact people complaining when the center shuts down next year because they wont be able to get insurance. People actually amaze me with their selfishness and total general idiocy.
Great wee country we have
Soon we won’t be able to do any activities in this fookin country
I imagine banning her from riding horses ever again followed this verdict, right? Law is so f up.
Ffs this is bullshit!
Knew a family about 20+ years ago they had a horse on their farm and a neighbors kid used to ride it on occasion with the family. She went onto their property, without telling them while they were away and without asking if she could take the horse out and fell off and her parents sued the family and won! Absolute joke some of these claims
One thing I noticed was the girls surname is Keeling. Maybe a coincidence but a vast amount of the land around that equestrian Center is owned by the Keeling fruit company.
I initially thought they might have owned the equestrian Center but it looks like it’s owned by a family called the Monks. Might be unhappy neighbours if there is the neighbourly connection
Hope there is no centre take her again for any activity in her life. Should be public list with the name’s with people and they claims
So because of a dislocated elbow the mam blames an equestrian centre and she gets 140k . The surgery was probably only fuckin 5k if you didn’t have insurance . The judge should be called into question that he didn’t dismiss this ffs . I really get disgusted reading shite like this . Seems to be a new story every fuckin month
Why would insurance company settle such a stupid case? Surely any judge with a piece of brain in their head would dismiss this as nonsense.
Leeches will leech. this is why we cannot have anything nice like an auld swing in the hotel foyer.
Rides wild animal and sues…. Hahaha what a fucking joke
Claim culture strikes again… people who make frivolous claims need to be shunned by the whole community
She’s taken them for a ride.
People are quick to blame insurance companies as the soul perpetrators for high premiums when meanwhile unfortunately its now embedded in Irish society to claim when stuff like this happens. Liability laws need to be changed otherwise nothing will be able to operate
I dislike this person
I would love to see a breakdown of the reasoning behind the award amount. What type of injury constitutes such a large amount of money? Who decides a dislocated elbow that doesn’t bend straight costs €145,000?
The centre should have done an assessment of the horse and if they found out it was so inexperienced they shouldn’t have let it on the premises. That was their fault for not covering themselves. In the world today you need to be aware that there’s absolute bastards like these parents out there. However the scumbag parents who took this case are absolute degenerates and they should be convicted for child endangerment for letting their child ride a dangerous horse.
With these high awards and the inevitable rise in insurance premiums, you’d have to wonder if the judges and insurance companies are in cahoots. They seem to work very well together.
A few years ago I feel off my bike cycling in icy weather.
Who can I sue to claim my 140k
Ridiculous.
Used to work at this center. Feel fucking horrible for the owner (a lovely person) and incredibly good with both horses and kids. Horses are unpredictable animals and it’s required that every riding center have signs stating so aswell as stating that it’s a risk sport, waivers have to be signed with any knew riders and insurance on these establishments is crippling without any claims. That child’s parents are scum and now the child’s name has been printed for anyone to see she may find it difficult to find somewhere willing to let her use their facilities. I’ll certainly be passing it along to anyone I know running similar businesses. It’s not the child’s fault but she’ll be the one to pay for it. If this happened my current employer we would not be able to remain open. Sincerely hope monksfeild can get through it and stay open or many of that girls friends will be losing out due to her sponges of parents!
The laws around these kinds of claims really need to be changed.
She fell off her own horse ffs.
This is fucking wild, i ate shit off so many ponies. Definitely should be suing my dad for letting mg me use the arena.
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Terrible terrible mother
An absolute disgrace! That girls parents are the only ones at fault in this scenario. You’d have to be a total gobshite to buy a 3yr old, barely trained pony for a 10yr old kid. There’s a saying in the horse world. ‘Green (horses) and Green (riders) makes black and blue(bruises)’
A smart way for the girl and her parents(presumably horse people) to kill off riding centers, thus damaging their sport and similar activities.
some people have no sense or shame.
This is why business insurance policies are going through the roof.
Why doesn’t Ireland abolish this system and replace it with NZ no fault insurance.
The Accidental Compensation Corporation (ACC) is the sole and compulsory provider of accident insurance in New Zealand for all work and non-work related injuries.
The corporation administers the ACC Scheme on a no-fault basis, so that anyone, regardless of the way in which they suffered an injury, has coverage under the scheme.
In NZ no one complains something can’t be done because of insurance
It’s like the judges want to destroy this country as much as possible
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Seems dodgy. Why did her parents buy her a 3 year old? How long was she riding before the fall? Had she fallen before?
This doesn’t even make sense. It was her own horse, and even if it wasn’t, it’s a risk that can happen in the sport.
These are the worst people in society.
Like that dumb fuck who sued the Wicklow way because she tripped.
What sort of pillockry is that judgement?
They fell off *their own* wild animal. How on earth is that the fault of the centre?
Imagine getting your €140k but then your daughter’s friends not being able to do the activity they like anymore. Shit human beings.
Nobody willing to own up to their own stupidity these days.
The dangers and risks of horse riding are well known. Falling off is a part of horse riding, it happens to everyone at all levels. I bet they bought that 3 year old pony as it was cheap, because it had no training done itself!
She could have been riding a 10 year old, and still had a fall. Is there going to be 145k for anyone who gets hurt off a horse?
And it’s not like she broke her neck. She’s back horse riding 3 times a week so it clearly hasn’t bothered her too much.
You’d feel very sorry for the centre.
>When aged 10, Leah Skye Keeling fell off her own horse, a three-year-old mare
What on earth is child that age riding a horse that young, children should ride horses that are ancient because they are calm, young horses especially a 3 year old are crazy
And at 3 years old they ( the horses) have literally only started to be ridden
>and dislocated her elbow during a riding lesson at an equestrian centre.
Expensive elbow I guess
My daughter (16) got thrown while riding at the local equestrian centre last year.
Ended up with and ambulance being called, and rushed to A+E, neck blocks on, scans and x-rays, the whole shabang.
Didn’t even enter my mind to take any sort of legal action.
It’s the legal system self-perpetuating. Judge and legal teams all able to pay their bills this month 😏
145k for a dislocated elbow? Ah I’ve heard it all now. Sure I suppose she suffered PTSD after it too
This makes me think I should have sued my workplace a few years back for a serious back injury, I was young and didn’t realize you could get a house out of it. Still have the injury…
Anyone on here selling a horse. Asking for a friend ?
I guess the parents need the money to keep up with the Jones
Which is why public liability insurance is beyond many leisure/sporting businesses now and they are closing. Basically it’s got to be owned by the local council to stay open now.
Anyone putting a 10 year old on a 3 year old horse is culpable, including the parents.
And they’ll be the exact people complaining when the center shuts down next year because they wont be able to get insurance. People actually amaze me with their selfishness and total general idiocy.
Great wee country we have
Soon we won’t be able to do any activities in this fookin country
I imagine banning her from riding horses ever again followed this verdict, right? Law is so f up.
Ffs this is bullshit!
Knew a family about 20+ years ago they had a horse on their farm and a neighbors kid used to ride it on occasion with the family. She went onto their property, without telling them while they were away and without asking if she could take the horse out and fell off and her parents sued the family and won! Absolute joke some of these claims
One thing I noticed was the girls surname is Keeling. Maybe a coincidence but a vast amount of the land around that equestrian Center is owned by the Keeling fruit company.
I initially thought they might have owned the equestrian Center but it looks like it’s owned by a family called the Monks. Might be unhappy neighbours if there is the neighbourly connection
Hope there is no centre take her again for any activity in her life. Should be public list with the name’s with people and they claims
So because of a dislocated elbow the mam blames an equestrian centre and she gets 140k . The surgery was probably only fuckin 5k if you didn’t have insurance . The judge should be called into question that he didn’t dismiss this ffs . I really get disgusted reading shite like this . Seems to be a new story every fuckin month
Why would insurance company settle such a stupid case? Surely any judge with a piece of brain in their head would dismiss this as nonsense.
Leeches will leech. this is why we cannot have anything nice like an auld swing in the hotel foyer.
Rides wild animal and sues…. Hahaha what a fucking joke
Claim culture strikes again… people who make frivolous claims need to be shunned by the whole community
She’s taken them for a ride.
People are quick to blame insurance companies as the soul perpetrators for high premiums when meanwhile unfortunately its now embedded in Irish society to claim when stuff like this happens. Liability laws need to be changed otherwise nothing will be able to operate
I dislike this person
I would love to see a breakdown of the reasoning behind the award amount. What type of injury constitutes such a large amount of money? Who decides a dislocated elbow that doesn’t bend straight costs €145,000?
The centre should have done an assessment of the horse and if they found out it was so inexperienced they shouldn’t have let it on the premises. That was their fault for not covering themselves. In the world today you need to be aware that there’s absolute bastards like these parents out there. However the scumbag parents who took this case are absolute degenerates and they should be convicted for child endangerment for letting their child ride a dangerous horse.
With these high awards and the inevitable rise in insurance premiums, you’d have to wonder if the judges and insurance companies are in cahoots. They seem to work very well together.
A few years ago I feel off my bike cycling in icy weather.
Who can I sue to claim my 140k
Ridiculous.
Used to work at this center. Feel fucking horrible for the owner (a lovely person) and incredibly good with both horses and kids. Horses are unpredictable animals and it’s required that every riding center have signs stating so aswell as stating that it’s a risk sport, waivers have to be signed with any knew riders and insurance on these establishments is crippling without any claims. That child’s parents are scum and now the child’s name has been printed for anyone to see she may find it difficult to find somewhere willing to let her use their facilities. I’ll certainly be passing it along to anyone I know running similar businesses. It’s not the child’s fault but she’ll be the one to pay for it. If this happened my current employer we would not be able to remain open. Sincerely hope monksfeild can get through it and stay open or many of that girls friends will be losing out due to her sponges of parents!
The laws around these kinds of claims really need to be changed.
She fell off her own horse ffs.
This is fucking wild, i ate shit off so many ponies. Definitely should be suing my dad for letting mg me use the arena.
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Terrible terrible mother
An absolute disgrace! That girls parents are the only ones at fault in this scenario. You’d have to be a total gobshite to buy a 3yr old, barely trained pony for a 10yr old kid. There’s a saying in the horse world. ‘Green (horses) and Green (riders) makes black and blue(bruises)’
A smart way for the girl and her parents(presumably horse people) to kill off riding centers, thus damaging their sport and similar activities.
some people have no sense or shame.
This is why business insurance policies are going through the roof.
Why doesn’t Ireland abolish this system and replace it with NZ no fault insurance.
The Accidental Compensation Corporation (ACC) is the sole and compulsory provider of accident insurance in New Zealand for all work and non-work related injuries.
The corporation administers the ACC Scheme on a no-fault basis, so that anyone, regardless of the way in which they suffered an injury, has coverage under the scheme.
In NZ no one complains something can’t be done because of insurance
It’s like the judges want to destroy this country as much as possible