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One morning in the early fall of 1996 Ms. Peters, in her daily routine as a member of the cleaning staff of Hofkens Ltd., is making an effort to remove a coffee stain off a desk leg in one of the offices. Unfortunately as she is bending forward, leaning with her one hand on the desk while cleaning with the other, she loses balance, trips and hurts her finger, causing muscular dystrophy and permanently disabling her from working at full speed.1 A year later Mr. Dusarduyn, an experienced roofer who is told by his employer to go on the roof and fix it falls through a hole covered with insulation roofing material almost three metres down and brakes his wrist.2 In both of these cases and their subsequent proceedings damages were claimed from the victim’s private employer. Both employees, Peters and Dusarduyn, argued to have suffered income loss for having been unable to work for some time, the latter even claimed to have lost profits, as — in addition to his contract of services - he was part-time self-employed. Furthermore each argued to have incurred medical expenses and suffered non pecuniary damages.
This research was part of NWO’s’ shifts of Governance’ project. The author would like to thank the law faculties of both the University of Maastricht and the University of Utrecht where this research was conducted.
Example taken from a Dutch Supreme Court’s decision on the employer’s civil liability in this instance, HR 12 September 2003, NJ 2004, 177 (Peters/Hofkens BV).
HR 16 May 2003, NJ 2004, 176 (Dusarduyn/Du Puy BV).
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Engelhard, E.F.D. (2007). Shifts of Work-Related Injury Compensation. Background Analysis: The Concurrence of Compensation Schemes. In: Klosse, S., Hartlief, T. (eds) Shifts in Compensating Work-Related Injuries and Diseases. Tort and Insurance Law, vol 20. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-71556-7_2
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