Boomhauer

Reading about her medical issues, 200K AED is a fraction of what it is going to cost.

Arcadia

I was recently in the process of booking my hotel for my next buisness trip to Abu Dhabi. I made some enquiries regarding 5* accomadation and I received an email from Emirates palace offering me some really good deals and options.

I had the greatest pleasure in replying "no thanks, I really would not like a cupboard shelf hitting me on my head, so please never contact me again until the matter is resolved in Natalie's favour"...

BEVS

Me too MP.

Meow

Hardly a joking matter and demonstrates the importance of having decent medical cover and not leaving your family at risk.

In fact I'd do further and say that as you are financially responsible for your wife and daughter you are irresponsible in not making sure that your family has proper medical cover and that you have a will and life cover in place for their benefit. It's just not fair on them not to do so. Accidents do happen...

jam25mack

Ditto.

Shocking state of affairs!

Blue Cat

I think I read that Nat did have medical insurance in the early days but they refused to renew the policy, not sure if that is correct or not.

Meow

Assuming she had employer related cover it would have ceased once she was no longer employed, which is standard practice.

Meow

If you haven't already signed the petition please do so. It's just a minute of your time and there's a slim chance it may be of benefit to this woman who is really suffering and has been treated unfairly.

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition...ponsible/?copy

Thank you

mikewot

Looks like Natalie was being economical with the truth:
"During her stay at the hotel in July 2008, she was arranging her shoes at the bottom of the wardrobe and a rack, which weighed 2.2 kilograms, fell on her head causing brain damage that resulted in her suffering from epileptic seizures and fainting, she claimed.

She had also claimed that she lost her job as a result to her health condition and suffered major physical, emotional and psychological pain, in addition to the constant need for medical treatment.
However, it was proved to the court that there was no connection between the wooden rack injury and her seizures.
The court medical committee requested her medical file from the UK to check her medical background, saying that the probability of her suffering epileptic seizures following the accident was not more than 2 per cent.

The file showed that before the accident she was undergoing treatment for the condition she claimed she developed after the rack fell on her head"

"The court also said that she exaggerated the consequences of the accident as she managed to find a job in another company after the incident and got married.

It was ruled that she was entitled to Dh100,000 in compensation for all the damages."

Injured Emirates Palace guest has compensation cut by UAE court | The National

Irishbeekeeper

Well this is one of those cases that it is sad if it is true and sadder still if it is not true

Inselaffen

i worked 6 months for a firm of ambulance chasers after finishing my law studies. the number of exaggerated cases was amazing.

norsk

The campaigning (Justice for Natalie) was pretty convincing with frequent updates including pics of her in the hospital on facebook etc, but it seems to have stopped last summer so I guess something happened. I'm sure some of the people on the bored who were involved will be able to enlighten us more.

Since it appears the court deemed it to be a case of ambulance chasing why did they even give them 100K?

mikewot

Perhaps thats when she got her new job and/or got married and the penny dropped for the campaigners.
I would have thought you would expect some recompense for being banged on the head by a big piece of wood, original offer was 200k, but not the millions requested.

Millhouse

Does this mean I can stop boycotting Emirates Palace and Kempinski hotels?

I hope so as I would really like to see the Abu Dhabi Classics again, and have a beer at Mosaic.

Dumbo

Reading the first page or two of this thread its amazing how some people are so quick to jump on a bandwagon without knowing the facts for themselves. There seems to be a 'facebook tells me so it must be true' kind of attitude.

Was there a fund set up that people donated money too? I hope not.

I agree with an award for the actual injuries sustained, but claiming for problems that you had before the incident is very low in my book, especially when you make such a big PR campaign about it.

Facebook and twitter are easily exploited.