“The Royal British Legion has stopped supplying pins with its [veterans’-remembrance] poppies because it fears compensation claims from ‘injured’ members of the public.” “People can easily stab themselves with a pin and there is always the worry of litigation,” says the chairman of an RBL branch in Somerset. However, Peter Westwell, county secretary of the Shropshire branch, “called the no-pin rule ‘poppycock’. He said: ‘It is compensation culture gone mad.'” (Elizabeth Day, Daily Telegraph, Nov. 2)
U.K.: “Poppy pins banned in case people sue”
“The Royal British Legion has stopped supplying pins with its [veterans’-remembrance] poppies because it fears compensation claims from ‘injured’ members of the public.” “People can easily stab themselves with a pin and there is always the worry of litigation,” says the chairman of an RBL branch in Somerset. However, Peter Westwell, county secretary of the […]
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