A £5MILLION compo claim — including £160,000 for dog walkers — has been kicked out of court with the claimant branded an “unembarrassed liar”.
Grant Greening-Steer fractured his spine and suffered a brain injury when a car pulled in front of his motorbike.
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Grant Greening-Steer fractured his spine and suffered a brain injury when a car pulled in front of his motorbike Credit: Supplied by Chgampion News
Greening-Steer would have received £378,420 for his genuine injuries, but was branded an ‘unembarrassed liar’ by a High Court judge Credit: Champion News Service
He sued the driver’s insurer in the High Court last month over the 2019 crash in New Milton, Hants.
He claimed for an ongoing range of disabilities — including that it had stopped him working, that he could not walk his dogs, barely tie his shoelaces and needed a mobility scooter.
In court documents, he claimed problems getting in and out of the bath, difficulties carrying things without spilling them and a generalised “debilitating fatigue”.
At the time of the accident, he was running a refrigerated trailer business, but the effect of his injuries ultimately made work impossible, he claimed.
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The insurer accepted the severity of the accident, but its legal team produced surveillance footage including cooling engineer Greening-Steer, 51, walking normally, driving his Aston Martin 55 miles and walking his dogs.
They said he was “deliberately lying” and a “malingerer”.
Mr Justice Ritchie dismissed the claim yesterday and said Greening-Steer was a “regular, detailed, unembarrassed liar”.
The judge said that, but for his dishonesty, Mr Greening-Steer would have been entitled to £378,420 damages for his genuine injuries, but because he had lied so blatantly he will get nothing.
He concluded: “It is disappointing to be driven to find that a man so seriously injured through the torts of another has been fundamentally dishonest about the sequellae arising from his injuries, with the intention of defrauding the defendant’s insurer.
“That conduct has deprived him of a substantial sum in damages to which he would otherwise have been entitled.”
