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Discussion are everywhere on social media for the past one or two days, except here. From reddit forum, some poster said that these fraudulent accidents claims are common here. https://mothership.sg/2025/07/mom-investigating-alleged-fraudulent-work-injury-claim-sumo-salad-jane-lee/ MOM looking into alleged fraudulent work injury claim by Sumo Salad employee; police investigating owner's death

Firstly, I have to thanks my father and mother, for not being rich, else I might have langared with an ambulance when my Aston Martin sounds too loud. 🤣 @Jamesc want to buy one for your mil? You in used car trade, sure know how to switch off the headphone system right? He Bought A $3.5M Aston Martin And Almost Hit An Ambulance Because It Was Too Loud. Now He’s Suing (https://www.carscoops.com/2025/06/he-bought-a-3-5m-aston-martin-and-almost-hit-an-ambulance-because-it-was-too-loud-now-hes-suing/) Aston Martin’s hypercar churns out 1,160 hp thanks to a hybridized naturally aspirated V12. The engine is so loud, drivers must wear special headphones that transmit environment’s noise. However, in one car that system failed almost causing an accident, and the owner is now suing. Speaking to German magazine Handelsblatt under the pseudonym “Kunze,” the disgruntled owner revealed he purchased the hypercar for 3 million euros ($3.46 million at current exchange rates) in February 2022, no doubt lured by its aggressive shape, extraordinary performance, racecar-like interior and the promise of an experience that gets as close to racing while being street-legal and cruising down the road. Unfortunately, Herr Kunze didn’t get to savior it. Many problems were present right off the bat, but what broke the camel’s back and made him sue Aston Martin was the fact that he almost crashed into an ambulance. No, according to him, he wasn’t being reckless; the car itself malfunctioned or, specifically, one of its safety features did. Because the Cosworth-developed V12, which pumps out around 1,000 hp (making it the most powerful naturally aspirated production engine ever), redlines at a staggering 11,000 rpm, and is loud enough to make your ears beg for mercy, every Valkyrie comes with special headphones. These headphones are connected to external microphones and must be worn by the driver at all times, ensuring they stay aware of their surroundings while revving the beast. On August 24, 2024, the system allegedly failed and Kunze nearly crashed into an ambulance despite the latter sounding its horn. “It was only thanks to the quick reaction and driving skills of the ambulance driver that a fatal accident was avoided,” the Aston’s driver said. A lawsuit followed shortly after and, as noted by Handelsblatt, his lawyer, Marco Rogert, claims that Kunze hasn’t dared drive his Aston since. This wasn’t an isolated incident, though; as stated in the lawsuit, issues began right after the hypercar was delivered. After a few hundred miles, all sorts of warning lights started flashing and the high-voltage system failed. Thus, instead of roaming the Autobahn, the Valkyrie was transported to the service center to get fixed. “I’m fed up with Aston Martin,” he told the Aachen Regional Court, simply because his Valkyrie had more defects “than all my other cars combined.” And judging by the amount he paid for the Aston, he must be able to afford quite a few in his garage. He asked for a reversal of the purchase, to which Aston Martin simply said no, insisting that it had delivered a “flawless vehicle”. Its owner didn’t think as much though: apart from the hybrid system, the Valkyrie’s “Rocket Locker”, a system that stops the hydraulic suspension from sinking when power is cut off was removed without Kunze being informed, damaging the car. Add other damages that occurred during transport to the workshop, and it’s easy to see why he wanted Aston to take back the Valkyrie. On its part, the British brand claims that even if it agreed to take the car back, it would charge Kunze €55,000 ($63,400) for the 271 miles (441 kilometers) the Valkyrie had been driven. It doesn’t take a calculator to see that each mile is costing a small fortune, no matter how deep your pockets are. Apparently, Aston is cool with that as it expects its clients to not drive its hypercar: “Most owners drive around 300, and certainly no more than 1,000 kilometers per year,” is said, according to the German outlet Handelsblatt. While this may indeed be true for most, a brand deadpanning that you aren’t supposed to drive the car you paid millions for is absurd, if not outright cynical. The company also noted that driving a super sports car for extended periods can rack up additional costs. As an example, they pointed out that after 50,000 kilometers (31,000 miles), the “entire transmission” will need replacing. Reading the last sentence, it's no wonder the owner wanted Aston Martin to take back the car with a full refund. 🥶

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/pubs-lawyer-contrasts-womans-active-carousell-account-against-her-claim-to-be This sueing remind me of many cases of fall in America and these people sue big companies like McDonald and etc and was successful. We should not allow that to happen. Hope judge to reject outright and also make her pay the legal fees too. We should not follow America path and instead make this women learnt her lesson that she will not exploit the system and extort money due to thinking, yes now its a time for me to strike rich, government got money, so can sue huge amount of money. If this women win the lawsuit, I bet in future there will have more cases coming in, maybe the fall will be less severe like slip and fall in wet surface in McDonald's and wanted to sue for millions of dollars. If that's the path singapore is going. Gg man. This below is one example in America.

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/rsaf-woman-helicopter-pilot-sues-cabby-for-at-least-4m-after-wrist-injury-in-accident?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&xtor=CS1-10#Echobox=1535985205 I don't think this is healthy at all if judge approved the damages that the RSAF pliot want to get from cabby due to cabby negligence in beating red light. Imagine if Judge approved, we maybe following USA footstep where a simple fall in Mcdonald due to floor is wet and Mcdonald can get sued for few millions in dollar. Not healthy at all. So hope judge to reject the 4million in damages and injuries but maybe instead only approved say 20k due to cabby is also wrong in the 1st place by beating red light. So the cabby also need to bare some consequences.

The family of a dead national serviceman is suing the Singapore Armed Forces for allegedly failing to provide a safe training environment. http://str.sg/JFE Private Dominique Sarron Lee, 21, died in April 2012 after an allergic reaction to smoke grenades during an exercise. Pte Lee's platoon commander and the exercise's chief safety officer are also being sued for negligence.

Haiz...haha. Poor bugger...

Court punishes Hewlett-Packard for under paying sales rep……. SINGAPORE — A retrenched sales product specialist with IT firm Hewlett-Packard (HP) is entitled to about S$600,000 in incentives for winning back a client, the High Court has ruled. In a judgment made public today (Aug 5), Judicial Commissioner Edmund Leow ruled that Ms Corinna Chin Shu Hwa had helped win back electronic payments provider NETS as a customer for the Singapore subsidiary of HP, and the contract fell within the definition of “new business” for HP. NETS was a HP customer but decided in late 2010 to buy IBM servers. The platform-migration process ran into problems and Ms Chin and her colleagues tried to woo NETS back in 2011 by, among other things, refusing to extend maintenance services for the existing servers unless NETS inked a new contract with HP. This put pressure on NETS’ planned migration to the IBM servers, and it eventually ordered new HP servers in a March 2012 contract worth about S$5.38 million. HP had argued that the NETS contract failed to meet the criteria for new business, and paid Ms Chin S$229,370.60 in incentives when it retrenched her in June 2012. JC Leow ruled that HP’s meaning of “new end user customer” – part of how sales specialists’ performances were assessed from November 2011 – was ambiguous. The justice of the case demands that the company bear the risk of this ambiguity, he added. “In terms of sales, NETS had been lost as a customer” when it decided to buy IBM servers in late 2010, the judge wrote. Although NETS’ platform migration was from existing HP servers to new HP ones, it was because NETS was won back as a customer before the migration process was complete, and was hence not a “technology refresh contract”, JC Leow noted. “Therefore, NETS was a ‘win back’ – i.e. a new end user customer – when it signed a contract for HP’s NonStop Blades servers in March 2012”, and was considered “new business”, he ruled. And as Ms Chin was involuntarily terminated in June 2012 before the end of HP’s financial year, the calculation of her incentive pay should be on a pro-rated basis rather than a full-year basis, JC Leow said. http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/court-orders-hewlett-packard-pay-retrenched-sales-specialist-about-s627000 http://www.stjobs.sg/career-resources/money-matters/former-exec-sues-hp-for-more-than-600000/a/159351