Dogsey

disgraceful behaviour by the 'volunteer' in my opinion.
They probably had to have a fund raise to pay the person off, so money that would have been there to help the dogs has gone to give this person a cushy lifestyle

I echo what TW says, they know by the very nature of the job what it entails and getting bitten is part and parcel of it. I hope it dosent open the flood gates and to this kind of thing.

I know these kennels and instead of money being spent on flowers for my brother-in-laws funeral everyone gave cheques of money for the kennels, I know it amounted to several hundreds of pounds but unless you get other families doing similar they will never get to pay off this amount. I hope that volunteer gets her own come back how could they take the money away from all those homeless animals. I think it is disgusting.

Completely echo what Elaine says. I am also concerned about this setting a precendent for further claims of this type. So sad, however the rescue should not have let their insurance lapse. The first rule has to be to behave like a business and ensure you have adequate cover, to me that is common sense. As always though, it is the animalse who suffer.

From what I am reading about this it seems the main problem is they did not 'renew their insurance'.

It may be that they've been paying out for insurance and never needed to call on it and thought they could save costs by dropping it. Or that they just forgot (but you usually get reminders).

Where unknown quantity dogs are concerned, I'd have thought it was even MORE essential to carry liability insurance. It could as easily have been a member of the public who didn't work there that got bitten.

I agree with you Tang. £30,000 seems a drop in the ocean compared with what it could have been.

As usual, only half a story so it's difficult to comment