Woman sues NUS

• QX179R

  13 Feb 10, 10:52

  A WOMAN whose husband drowned in a National University of Singapore (NUS) pool is seeking $1 million in damages from the university.

   

  Madam Teong Hui Ching, wife of the late Mr Roland Yeo, is claiming that the university was negligent.

  At issue in the suit is the role of the lifeguards during the mishap, what support they provided and whether they could have averted the mishap.

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• JJxJJ

  13 Feb 10, 12:46

  $1m?  for what fuck?

• βέτά

  13 Feb 10, 13:21

   

  I think a life is worth more than $1m, but I could be wrong, some are not even worth a cent.

   

   

• keeptouch

  13 Feb 10, 14:17

  Why must sue?

  She can claim from insurance company still not enough meh

• QX179R

  13 Feb 10, 14:24

  Originally posted by JJxJJ:

  $1m?  for what fuck?

  She claims varsity was negligent in efforts to save him when he had heart attack at pool

• Bangulzai

  13 Feb 10, 14:25

  Originally posted by keeptouch:

  Why must sue?

  She can claim from insurance company still not enough meh

  may not have bought insurance

• Daveteo

  13 Feb 10, 14:32

  this rolando yeo is a celebrity or what?

  how old is he when he die?

  His life worth $1 million must be a celebrity..

• laurence82

  13 Feb 10, 14:34

  if successful, will sch fees be raised next year?

• Daveteo

  13 Feb 10, 15:13

  wait she lose the case she have to end up paying the lawyer fees too than she will cry

• caleb_chiang

  13 Feb 10, 23:37

  Hmm... heart problem still want to exercise... whose fault?

• keeptouch

  14 Feb 10, 00:39

  Originally posted by caleb_chiang:

  Hmm... heart problem still want to exercise... whose fault?

  you mean roland yeo got heart problem?

  could be the doctor ask him to exercise..

• mancha

  14 Feb 10, 01:19

  The issue will be what caused the death.

  If I got a heart attack and was brought to the hospital immediately, and the hospital failed to use their expertise and equiptment to save me, can my family sue the hospital for failing to save me.

  Can the family prove that the life guards can definitely save the man but did not, and therefore is the cause of his death.

  The swimming pool does not have any extraordinary danger that the swimmer must be warned about. There is only drowning, and every swimmer knows that. He went swimming at his own risk.

  The role of the life guards may be examined, but they did not cause the death. The question will be :"Did NUS provide an unsafe swimming pool?"