Should You Get Stag-Do Insurance?
This is something we’ve been pondering for a while, so we thought we’d ask you, our intelligent readers, about it. The question is that as the stag-do essentially involves undertaking dangerous and inadvisable pursuits whilst Britneyed beyond all recognition, should there be some form of insurance involved?
Loading ...We were driven to ask this after reading this in the Independent (I know, check us out!) recently:
Not so ‘Happy Gilmore’. The style of golf drive pioneered by Adam Sandler in the hit movie, where a player takes a run-up to hit the ball, has been banned as “a legal breach of the standard of care owed to other players on the course” by Judge Arthur J LeBlanc in the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, Canada, after Alan Bezanson was injured by Travis Hayter during a drunken stag-do round and sued him for $227,500. But according to testimony, Hayter’s usual swing was arguably worse than his running one, so why deprive golf of much-needed fun? By the fateful 16th he was performing “power slides” in his buggy and almost drove it into a pond. In general, his driving was erratic.
Naturally, there’s the golden: What Goes On Tour Stays On Tour rule, but we live in a no-win, no fee culture so is it really worth risking your savings just for the sake of a £20 policy?
A quick straw-poll of the Staggered team reveals that on our own stag-dos there have been four broken bones and one shattered kneecap. Granted we’re a clumsy bunch but I refuse to believe that we’re atypical.
So, to insure, or not to insure that is the question. Also are there any insurance companies out there who would cover 10 drunk blokes doing archery? If you were injured on a stag-do let us know whether you’d sue or not…
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