ISME Slams Ash Wednesday Insurance Payout
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- Absurd Claim should have been thrown out of court
- Excessive insurance costs impacting businesses and consumers
- Legislative Cap on Damages must be urgently introduced
As local businesses work towards their final trading weekend before Christmas, ISME, the
Commenting on the story, ISME CEO
"While the practices of wearing ashes on the forehead on
One wonders, therefore, what going through the minds of the insurers who proposed the settlement, and the judge who approved it. It is highly unlikely that any of them are unfamiliar with the practice of applying ashes, and the fact that those ashes are intentionally visible for some time afterwards.
In any other common law jurisdiction in the world, a judge would have thrown out such a frivolous, vexatious claim without hesitation. The consensual participation in a religious ceremony in any other country could not result in a tort, without evidence of some pretty serious negligence."
"While of course we are unfamiliar with the facts of this case, it would strain credulity to say that the priest applying the ashes in this Limerick school was negligent in any way.
What will the parents of Jewish and Muslim boys circumcised in
No doubt there will be an attempt to blame the insurers or judiciary for this settlement as well, as happened last month. But, as was also reported this weekend, the Government refused to entertain a proposal from the
ISME calls on the Government to acknowledge the sense of urgency for businesses and consumers in addressing insurance costs that was recognised by
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