Chapter XXIV The question of reparations
"Hi Don, are you okay? I'm really happy to see you back like this. However, please accept my sincerest apologies, I am really sorry that I caused all this! "The fat mine owner, oh no, it should be called Brother Sharp mine owner now, with a sincere smile on his face, he said these words very sincerely.
Tang Feng was a little speechless, it was really hard to imagine that a fat guy weighing more than 100 kilograms could become like this in less than half a month, this is really unscientific! The former fat mine owner was definitely called a wide-hearted and fat-bodied man, but now, if it weren't for his vaguely recognizable appearance, Tang Feng would really regard the guy in front of him who weighed less than seventy kilograms as the sharp brother who was once all the rage, whether it was his body shape or dress, this guy in front of him was definitely a reprint of Brother Sharp!
Seeing Tang Feng's stunned face, the head also smiled, patted Tang Feng's shoulder gently, sat on the stool next to the hospital bed, and said with a smile: "Tang, this time York came over to apologize to you." Since then, York has also been under a lot of pressure, his mental state has not been very good, and your condition has not been very stable during this time, so it was not until today that I brought York over. ”
Tang Feng sat up with his hands on the bed and looked at the sharp brother version of York. Edmonds looked at the head again, vaguely understanding something in his heart.
Sure enough, after seeing Tang Feng's look, the leader shook his head and said to Tang Feng: "Tang, in fact, in addition to apologizing to you this time, York also has some things I want to discuss with you about compensation." ”
"Reparations? Boss, aren't all these things handled by insurance companies? Tang Feng didn't understand what the leader said, so he asked curiously. In these developed capitalist countries abroad, the insurance industry is very developed, and Tang Feng's work belongs to that kind of high-risk industry, so as early as when he joined the explorer company, the company's employees handled many insurance matters.
Just like this mining disaster, according to the compensation standard in the insurance regulations, Tang Feng has received 920,000 US dollars in compensation, of course, this money is paid by the insurance company in the United States. But now that the fat mine owner has come to talk about compensation, is there anything else about the fat mine owner?
As soon as Tang Feng said this, the leader's face became a little embarrassed, and even the face of the fat mine owner on the side began to become unnatural.
After hesitating for a moment, the head was about to explain, when he heard the door of the ward being pushed open, Sam walked in from the outside with a "murderous aura", and when he saw the head and the fat mine owner, he glared at the fat mine owner angrily, and then said to Tang Feng: "Feng, I will explain this matter to you!" ”
As he spoke, Sam ignored the ugly faces of the boss and the fat mine owner, and told the story of the incident.
It turned out that after the mining accident, according to Tang Feng's oral account and on-site investigation, it had been determined that the mining disaster was a gas explosion. If such an accident had been held in normal times, Tang Feng and the seven dead colleagues would only have been able to receive compensation from the insurance company, because such a sudden mining accident would have fallen within the scope of the mine owner's exemption. Fat mine owners do not need to bear any legal and civil liability at all.
However, it happened that when Tang Feng and the others went down the mine, the ventilation equipment of the fat mine owner was not turned on, that is to say, the occurrence of the mine disaster had the most direct trigger, that is, the ventilation equipment was not running! If the ventilation equipment is operating normally, there may be a high probability that there will be no gas explosion, and there is a high probability that the leaked gas will be pumped away by the ventilation equipment. Therefore, the operation of the ventilation equipment immediately became a key factor in the mining disaster.
And once the ventilation equipment is really implemented, then the fat mine owner will immediately become the first suspect directly from nothing to do with it, yes, this is a change in identity, from a normal person to a criminal suspect!
Although Tang Feng also told the relevant personnel after the mining accident that the ventilation equipment was not running at that time, Tang Feng's condition was very unstable at that time, so the fat mine owner was only listed as a suspect and was restricted from leaving the country by the authorities, and everything would not be taken against the fat mine owner until the real evidence was available.
The ventilation equipment was not turned on, except for Sam who did not have time to tell Tang Feng not to tell the outside world, Tang Feng had told the people in the relevant departments, other people, including Sam, who were insiders, said that they were not very clear about whether the ventilation equipment was turned on at that time, so the insurance company and the relevant departments could not get definite evidence for the time being. Later, after Tang Feng's condition improved, when the relevant departments came to verify it again, Tang Feng said that he was in a very bad state when he said these words at that time, and he didn't even know what he was talking about, so the insurance company and the relevant departments could not verify the evidence.
But this does not mean that Tang Feng and they will never say it to the outside world, once they really say this fact to the outside world, then the fat mine owner will immediately go to prison! This is an inescapable fact, after all, seven people died at once, and one person was seriously injured, such a vicious mining disaster, even if the fat mine owner and his father are the prime minister of Australia, the fat mine owner will inevitably go to prison!
These developed capitalist countries in the West attach great importance to personal safety, not to mention this kind of vicious mining disaster with seven deaths and one serious injury, even if it is an ordinary occupational disease, the person who gets the disease can receive a very high amount of compensation.
A 23-year-old plumber in Townsworth, Queensland, Australia, sued the Townsworthy City Council for occupational illness, saying that he was employed by the council between March 2009 and March 2011 because he was forced to climb up and down because of the cramped cockpit of a truck, causing back and leg pain, which was later identified as "moderate chest or lumbar soft tissue injury". He said he lost his job as a result and is still unemployed.
As a result, such a thing that seemed like a joke in the eyes of the Chinese people was finally resolved. After an investigation, the Thomsway Court finally ruled in favor of the young man and ordered the Thomsway City Council to compensate the young man with $530,000!
Another incident occurred in Sydney, where a female clerk of a company in Sydney sued her for occupational disease while working for the company, because the female clerk was a typist, and she claimed that during her work, she had suffered from a problem in both finger joints due to long hours of typing, and the pain was unbearable. As a result, after the Sydney District Court accepted the lawsuit of the female employee, after investigation, ruled that the female employee won and ordered the company to compensate the female employee with 210,000 Australian dollars in occupational disease compensation!
There are many examples like this in those developed capitalist countries, these are just occupational diseases, replaced by Tang Feng's catastrophic mining disaster, and it is also a mining disaster for a reason, once the evidence of the ventilation equipment is really implemented, even if Tang Feng does not prosecute, the Australian procuratorate will prosecute the fat mine owner, and the fat mine owner is squatting!
Of course, the fat mine owner knows these things, so he has been lobbying the boss and promised to compensate a huge amount of money, plus the boss is a soft-hearted person, and he has a lot of relationship with the fat mine owner, and the people are already dead, if the fat mine owner can compensate Tim and his family a large amount of money, he can also forgive the fat mine owner, so the boss actually agreed to the fat mine owner's request at the beginning.
But Sam quit. Don't look at Sam's usual giggling and not doing a good job, but after all, he was born in a family of lawyers, and he is able to study law and play law, so after he learned the leader's idea, he immediately gave the fat mine owner an ultimatum without hesitation, and told the fat mine owner very clearly, we can not say that the ventilation equipment was not turned on, but you must come up with a compensation that is enough to satisfy the victim's family, otherwise he Sam will definitely sue the fat mine owner to sit in prison!
As the professional legal counsel of Explorer, Sam can call the shots in this matter!
There's another chapter in the evening!