UK teacher gets 230k pounds after slipping on ketchup

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Press Trust of India London
Last Updated : Mar 05 2014 | 5:31 PM IST
A teacher in the UK has been awarded 230,000 pounds compensation after he slipped on a sachet of tomato ketchup in a school corridor causing him severe injuries.
He suffered the injuries during the fall as he was walking out of the staff room at a secondary school in Essex.
The personal injury claim was settled outside court by council chiefs who thought they may be forced to shell out up to 500,000 pounds including legal fees if the case had gone ahead due to mounting legal fees.
The severely injured teacher was awarded 90,000 pounds for damages, but legal fees and other costs totalled 140,000 pounds.
The payout was revealed in a Freedom of Information request, but the school remains unidentified, the 'Daily Express' reported.
The amount is part of more than one million pounds of payments made to injured teachers by Essex County Council in compensation over the past three years.
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First Published: Mar 05 2014 | 5:31 PM IST

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