Accident claim news - Sweets banned at Christmas to avoid compensation claims

A drama club has banned dames throwing sweets into the audience during their Christmas pantomime in a bid to avoid an expensive compensation claim.

Preston Drama Club in Lancashire has decided that throwing sweets into the crowd during their performance of Sleeping Beauty could spark a number of possible injury claims from people hurt by the sweets.

For years dames and other pantomime characters have delved their hands into a bucket filled with sweets and thrown them out to the young audience members but unfortunately committee members at Preston Drama Club have decided that treats will be handed out this year down the aisles.

Some members of the drama group believe that the fear of a possible personal injury compensation claim made by somebody who might suffer a head injury is killing a longstanding tradition.

President of the Preston Drama Club, Don Stephenson, said, "There are so many rules and regulations now. We were not really surprised because this is just another one.

"We have had so many of these things about what you can and can't do. They are only sweets, they wouldn't hurt anybody."

Another member added, "It was felt that insuring against an injury - say someone losing an eye in a freak accident - would cost too much money."

So it seems that people visiting the Preston Playhouse to watch this year's pantomime will be risk free from sustaining a personal injury and having to make a subsequent compensation claim.