Accident in norway last year may result in claim

[Henski]

I'm looking for opinions (good or bad) as to the following story!
I was in Norway touring on the bikes with a couple of friends last August (2004) when I hit the back pannier of my Norwegian mates 1200GS. Quite slow speed. I managed to stay on but broke my hand and I knocked him off, he at the time only had a sprained wrist.At the time I called my insurance back in the UK to tell them but there was no claim to make so it didn't go further. i had to fly home so claimed for assistance on my AA European 5 star cover (excellent by the way). He contacted me last week saying that for about the last year he has been having back problems and has since found out that has has 2 broken bones in his back which will probably need operating on (hopefully) and that the accicdent is the only thing that has happen to him that he can think of that could have caused this. his doctor in Norway has advised him to register a claim. Now we are mates and the thought of him having to medically retire (he's 56) does not make me feel great if indeed I was the cause, albiet an accident ( I reckon I was riding to close and didn't manage to stop in time) so I have supplied him with all my detail of insurance. Does his company have a case this far on and what do you reckon is his best outcome and my worst, he has said it's not a personal injury claim against me!

 

[Flying banana]

HHMMMM unfortunate indeed.
the thing that puzzles me tho is that you say he is a 'mate'.
if he has been having problems for the last year, and has been diagnosed as having broken bones, then is it teh case that he has only just told you, in which case why? Or is it that you knew about it, but he has only just been told to claim?
if the former, i would be questioning the reason.
If that makes sense!

As far as whether he has a valid claim, I dunno, as it happened in Norway, laws maybe differnt there. If it was dealt with under British civil law, I suspect he would (if it could be proved, of course)

As he is a friend, i hope to God it works out for you both.

Good luck with it.

 

[boundless]

Out of time...

If it wasn't reported to the police at the time as an accident and your mate didn't attend hospital for a complaint of some sort of back or leg pain related to the accident at the time of the injury (say within 30 days)....I'd think that your insurance company would defend this most vigorously and be confident of success.

Low back pain comes with the pipe, slippers, prostatic dribbling and presbyopia package on or around the 55th birthday anyway....earlier probably in northern latitudes.

If I was your mate I'd definitely be getting a second opinion before he goes under.

The pretext for surgery (as you relate it here) sounds like it was written by some sort of norwegian blue.

**Anybody taking this advice or thinking of taking offence at this advice should be warned now that boundless offers this advice with out prejudice but also without any professed knowledge, any experience of international law or any inherited aptitude for bonesetting.

Just passing the breeze, in other words.

 

[Steptoe]

Re: Out of time...

presbyopia package on or around the 55th birthday anyway....earlier probably in northern latitudes.

what is presbyopia ( i can just about read it if i stand at the back of the room ) - what am i in for in the not to distant future -

not more body parts falling off/failing to function

 

[ag1s]

Re: Re: Out of time...

what is presbyopia ( i can just about read it if i stand at the back of the room ) - what am i in for in the not to distant future -

not more body parts falling off/failing to function

it is when you cannot see close, but can see far. The opposite of myopia in a sense. It means literaly 'eyes of old people' and is ancient greek.
The glasses have the distinctive characteristic of making your eyes look big.

 

[Greg Masters]

Did your insurance specifically cover Norway (not a member of the EU)?

If it didn't, you want to be talking in dulcet tones to your mate pdq.

If you did have Norway cover, just pass the whole matter to the insurance company to deal with.

Greg

 

[boundless]

Re: Re: Re: Out of time...

It means literaly 'eyes of old people' and is ancient greek.
The glasses have the distinctive characteristic of making your eyes look big.

The first thing that you notice is that your arms have suddenly and mysteriously become shorter.