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NEGLIGENCE LAW GOING FOR A CHANGE

2002-09-10

At last the Federal Government realised plans for overhaul of the

negligence laws. After collapsed of HIH the biggest insurer and

“September 11” the entire insurance industry passed their incompetence

and mismanagement on consumers by increasing premiums so drastically

that most businesses, communities and people couldn’t afford it,

putting businesses, doctors and entertaining activities in stakes.

What is the meaning of those changes? Will we as citizens get more

protection and safety net from negligent parties and insurance companies?

What will that recommendation exactly do for you? Absolutely nothing.

In a report they jump to conclusion that public did not support any

lawsuit in a “voluntary risk” and we should let off some risk sports

and communities events from negligence claim.

Report saying that most people support such changes but I don’t think so

 that community support any negligence from parties, which organise

any events. More changes were pushed for protecting mostly insurance

firms and businesses. People will be left out with suffering alone to die

without proper and adequate help or compensation from someone’s

negligence. There’s no such thing that the Government protecting

negligent parties giving them right to make money knowing that

safety of innocent people are in danger. They like showing a case

when a drunken person was awarded $ 4 million after he hit his

head on a sandbank. Commonsense has to be the winner in that

circle of irresponsible behaviour by some stupid, drunken and dragged

people and that we have to stop that. But legislating people didn’t like

talk about commonsense and justification for court decision in that silly

cases. Where is commonsense and responsibility of jurisdiction system?

Nobody else like judges made those stupid awards for people who were

personally responsible for their own action during drunken rage. Does

our law make illegal any criminal behaviour done by drunken or on

drugs people? Of course, that isn’t the case. I would like to see commonsense

in all parties involved with negligence claims, not only victims.

The Government wants to protect volunteers from being sued. That is some

kind of joke or the legislators’ thinks that in our society there are people

who are above the law. Where is the equality and justice, which treat all

citizens as the same part of our country? Protecting people who are

involved in any unsafe activities, which put innocent lives at risk,

is unspeakable and disgraceful. Doesn’t matter whether someone

working voluntarily or not, that person or organization has to take

responsibility and accountability too, because nobody has rights to have

indemnity for their negligent or criminal behaviour. In such cases like

that the Government has to make appropriate law, which with

commonsense won’t allow anybody to be injured or killed by negligent parties.

Any organization has to right to kill.

We will see in the near future whether the Government is a good

legislator or not, when they will introduce adequate protection for

all parties in a negligence law. I hope that changes would safe lives

and give us some confidence in the law for innocent and suffering victims.

Please, go to see my previous articles:

1. SAYING “SORRY” AND LAW

2. PUBLIC LIABILITY INSURANCE

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