Claim is ‘compo culture gone mad’

A claim for damages over an injury caused to a toddler when her little finger got trapped in a hole in the metal lid of a restaurant’s sugar dispenser was described by a judge as “another case of compensation culture gone mad”.

Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns made the comment when he dismissed an appeal brought over the case which had been rejected earlier this year in the circuit court.

Robyn Behan, who was 2 years and 11 months at the time, got her finger stuck in an 8mm hole at the top of the dispenser while out for a family meal in Eddie Rocket’s restaurant in Blanchardstown, Dublin, in Sept 2011.