Biker claims compensation after fatal game of “chicken”

[mstriumph]

............. When ACC goes there will be similar claims here with big bucks involved, no more she'll be alright. Not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing.

ANYthing that forces people to take responsibility for their own actions [or INactions] has to be a good thing, surely?

[sunhuntin]

- if they had 'paid quite enough' attention to training their child in the first place we wouldn't be having this conversation

If someone's dog ran into me and damaged my bike i would go after the person who was supposed to be responsible for the animal and expect them to make good the damage; the state of their animal after it had committed its mayhem upon me would have no bearing whatsoever on that.

Mealy-mouthed, politically-correct, bleeding-hearted, sanctimonious platitudes aside i REALLY don't see the difference between an ill-disciplined dog and an ill-disciplined brat in that connection.

Morally the liability is the same - and, if the law doesn't recognise that then, sir, the law is an ass!

here here! thank god at least one person can talk in a non-pc way!