claim culture has spoilt life!
Many year's ago I did an extension on my house, I wanted to hire scaffold and erect myself (I'm am a qualified construction engineer but not trained in scaffold erection) to work on it myself. It was kwikstage scaffold so you would have to be dense to get it wrong. It took me ages to find a company that would hire me the scaffold due to H&S / insurance implications. I found one, they were very helpful, including sending in more scaffold when I ran out. The job was done, they collected, everyone happy. If they wouldn't have hired me the scaffold and been flexible with deliveries the job would have been much harder and more expensive to the point where we might not have done it and I would have lost out. BUT although it was difficult to see there were a couple of rotten scaffold boards, one of which I stood on at height, the board broke and I fell catching the scaffold on the way down breaking my fall before I hit the ground, wrenching my arm and shoulder! The ambulance chasing solicitors shout sue em! I think not! This is an example of the claim culture potentially stemming freedom to do what you want within reason in the future and / or indirectly costing the individual much more to do the same in the future - if everyone followed the same claim culture.
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