Judge criticises insurance firms for settling claims and ‘blaming Government’

Four men who were sitting in a Toyota Avensis on the forecourt of a garage and sued for compensation when their car was jolted by a jeep that reversed into them had all their claims dismissed yesterday.

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin looked at CCTV of the impact and said their stationary car did not move in the impact, so he said he did not know how all four, fit men were jolted and injured.

“I cannot see how these fit young men were jolted in any manner in the way they are alleging,” said the judge.