A 20-year-old woman who was burned 17 years ago in a Haredi kindergarten in Ashdod recently received compensation of 260,000 shekels from a student insurance policy.
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This is according to the ruling of the Ashdod Magistrate's Court, following a lawsuit filed by Attorneys Gil and Nitzan Harel.
The lawsuit states that 17 years ago, when she was a 3-year-old kindergartener, a pot of boiling soup tipped over and spilled on her.
Following the accident, she was rushed to Sheba Tel Hashomer Hospital by ambulance and hospitalized due to second-degree burns to her chest, right hand, back and neck.
The girl was hospitalized for three months and treated by plastic surgeons, in addition to physiotherapy and occupational therapy.
About 3 years ago, she consulted a professor specializing in plastic and aesthetic surgery, who determined that she suffered from scars on her chest and shoulder, right arm and forearm, a protruding breastbone, and scars on various parts of her body.
Today, the girl suffers from a permanent disability of 50 percent.
Her representatives, attorneys Gil and Nitzan Harel, who deal with personal injury claims, claimed in the lawsuit that before the accident she was a healthy child and now, as a result of the accident, she has suffered extremely severe damage and a permanent disability that significantly affects her functional status.
This is a disability that is manifested, among other things, in a limitation that will hinder her for the rest of her life, and therefore must be compensated according to the terms of a student policy.
Under a student insurance policy, she claimed to receive compensation for medical expenses, absences from kindergarten, days of hospitalization, and disability up to the maximum ceiling according to the degree of disability.
After negotiations, a compromise agreement was signed between her attorneys and the insurance company, according to which she will receive compensation in the amount of 260,000 shekels, in addition to the disability pension to which she is entitled from the National Insurance Institute.
Judge Yehuda Leiblin of the Ashdod Magistrate's Court recently gave the agreement a ruling.
