L’ex Limerick Hurler ha assegnato quasi 950k € in danni per l’incidente sul posto di lavoro di Johnson & Johnson

Personal Injury award guidelines suggest up to €197,000 for the loss of both arms above the elbow.

Based on reading the articles on this over the last month, I do believe Keane is a good-faith plaintiff. That doesn’t mean what he’s telling is accurate, just that he believes it.

Pain in one arm/shoulder doesn’t render you medically unfit for any job, ever, yet he has rendered himself permanently disabled and the judge agreed. Ironically, if this had been a WRC case, he would have been entitled to nothing because he hadn’t made a good-faith effort to find alternative employment and offered no reason why he had been unable to gain any in the last **7 years**.

>In his cross examination of Mr Keane, Mr Johnson said the plaintiff had gone on 10-12 cycles of between 27km and 105km in the summer of 2019, despite the plaintiff’s claim that he had been in pain since the incident and could not raise his arm above his head.

>Mr Keane accepted he had gone cycling socially with friends to get out of the house for his mental health after the injury, but that he did not enter any races. He said he cycled in June 2019 but has not done so since.

>Mr Keane said he had cycled on a racer bike, meaning that he was leaning forward, that gear changes were quickly done by a light flip-switch and that there had not been discomforting weight pressure on the handlebars.

>Mr Johnson said the first his clients knew of the complaint of shoulder pain, submitted by Mr Keane, was in November of last year. “That was the first we heard of it,” he said.

>Mr Johnson said the first medical record of a shoulder pain complaint was not until November 2020, “two years and two months after the accident”.

It sounds like he mentally went to a dark place after the accident and never returned from it. That’s not, however, the fault of Johnson & Johnson to the tune of €1million.

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That feels very very very generous.

Christ on a bike. That’s an outrageous amount of money.

My brother was involved in a high speed head on crash about 7 years ago. Other car over took on a blind corner, was a big people carrier, he was in a small hatch back so his car crumpled around him.

He was cut out and helicoptered to hospital as they feared he would not survive a road trip. Everything from his belly button down was broken, spine, hips, legs, knees and ankles. He has artifical knees and metal rods where his leg bones used to be. Spent a year in a wheel chair, another on a Zimmer frame and crutches and walks with a permanent limp now. He takes 15 different pills a day and has constant pain. All the more in cold weather.

He cannot work in his chosen profession any longer but can do an office/sitting down job. He lost his job, health, leg bones independence and dignity for 4 years of his life. Missed Family events and friends weddings. Our mother had to dress him, clean him, toilet him. He cannot manage stairs very well and struggles to walk long distances now.

He got 620,000 and out of that he had to pay 100grand in medical and legal bills. Then he had to buy a new single story home, an adapted car and is left with about 150g for the rest of his life. He is in his mid 30s.

A million fucking quid for a hurty shoulder. Fuck me.