Leicester City crash victim's family sues owners for $10m

[WigstonWanderer]

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[Aus Fox]

Feck The Sun and anyone who reads it, don’t click on the link can’t be arsed reading what bullshit they have made up.

[Bert]

It’s on the BBC website now 

[Finnegan]

Why do they keep calling her "beauty queen" as if she didn't have a job? 

 

****ing trashy, sexist piece of shit rag. 

[ThaiFox]

12 hours ago, baldeagle said:

I get the family looking after each other thing as that what families should do . But expecting one person to look after the whole family while the rest of them sit on their arse is a totally alien concept to me . I come from a family of grafters had my first job at 12 and have been  always worked . My dad often had 2-3 jobs and earned good money,  I would never have sat back and expect him to pay for everything and vice versus . Don’t get me wrong if I’d have become a millionaire then my family wouldn’t have to work but they wouldn’t expect it . I know cultures are different but it just odd to me expecting someone to pay your way . 

Like you I worked from 12. I had 4 part time jobs at 14 and started full time work 3 weeks after my 17th birthday. I've never been unemployed and built my own property business. I started coming to Thailand in 2002 and moved out here to live a few years later.

 

It took a while to get my head around the Thai culture. It almost seemed primitive to me, but in many ways more advanced than western life. 

 

Most average working Thai people earn around 350 baht a day, which is around 9 or 10 UK pounds. Prices have rocketed out here in the past ten years and anything imported is much more expensive than UK prices. There are no unemployment benefits and if you don't work you don't eat, if you don't pay tax there is no free health care (which is pretty inadequate anyway). Disability benefit is 600 baht a month, and there's no way you could live on that so other family members have to look after ill, disabled and the old.

 

If one Thai person in a family is in a good well paid job it is almost their responsibility to help out the family. It's how the system works out here. It's not the others don't want to work, or are lazy, it's just the Thai culture.

 

As I said in my previous post, other Thai people will look up to a family that has one very high earning family member who keep the rest of the family. I've known Thai people out here that work in great jobs and buy houses for their parents, their brothers, sisters and in-laws, because it's what they do in their culture.

 

I would imagine King Power paid Nusara very well, and I'm sure her family were highly respected because of their daughters standing in the company. Personal assistant to one of the richest men in Thailand, who had also been given special status by the King, would be seen out here as a very special position, and one her family would have been extremely proud of.

 

Sorry if this is a bit long and boring, but I thought I'd give a little more insight into the Thai way of life and culture, which may help others more understand how it works out here, and maybe why Nusara's family have taken this action.

[Bob Farley]

Does anyone know what kind of ‘work’ her role involved? Former miss Thailand 🤔

[Ric Flair]

6 minutes ago, Bob Farley said:

Does anyone know what kind of ‘work’ her role involved? Former miss Thailand 🤔

She was Vichai's PA, but I'm sure many will joke and speculate

[StanSP]

11 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

She was Vichai's PA, but I'm sure many will joke and speculate

Like a certain BBC journalist did and got away with it 

[baldeagle]

18 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

Out of interest if a man or woman of a family of 5 had a good job pulling in 60k a year and the partner doing casual work around the kids growing up and the bread winner became severely disabled from a routine op, do you not think its pertinent for the family to be compensated for not only the care costs going forward for the disabled person, but the loss of earnings as well? 

 

 

That’s a completely different scenario. If the routine op went wrong you’d have to look at why it went wrong and not just assume the surgeon or the hospital was at fault . And it’s the parents trying to claim loss of earning  for their daughter . I’f the roles were reversed in your scenario  and the child had a routine op and it went wrong would they try and get loss of earning when the  child isn’t  even working . 

[baldeagle]

20 hours ago, polarbear said:

You're taking his comment to literally. Just because she had a well paid job over here, her family are likely to have jobs in Thailand jsut not as well paid - they won't be hangers on at all. Much like immigrants who come to the UK for better wages will tend to send some money back to their families in lesser paid jobs to help them 

Ok so say that is true and they are working then why are they after money for loss of earnings from our owners when they wasn’t working for them their daughter was . It’s not their earrings it’s their daughters . 

[davieG]

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/leicester-city-owner-king-power-3356717

 

Today King Power, the Thai duty-free retailer and owner of Leicester City, said it had still to receive a formal complaint from Ms Nusara’s family.

Despite that the business said it was “declining” the claims and the £7 million lawsuit filed against King Power Duty Free and the late Khun Vichai’s estate.

 

In a statement it said: “King Power had provided Nusara’s family with all legal support and assistances, including claim against insurance after the accident.

“However, the family accepted only statutory and welfare payments but denied other assistances offered.

“Last December King Power offered financial support to the family on a humanitarian basis but the family declined.

“The family also denied a non-prejudice initial payment offered by the insurer for USD 25,000 [around £20,000] including improved offers and has not reached a settlement with the insurer for the last 10 months."

The company also highlighted that the accident caused "great loss and sorrow to all families and members of King Power Duty Free".

“It was an undesirable event," the statement added.

“The accident is currently under investigation by the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB).

“According to AAIB’s interim report released last December, the accident was caused by a failure within the tail rotor control system.

“AAIB’s final report is expected to be released in mid-2020.”