Crime
Man Awaits Compensation After Brutal Hammer Attack by Robbers: Delayed Settlement Concerns Persist
Larry Cox, 72, awaits compensation a decade after being attacked by armed bandits with a hammer at Scotiabank. Medical issues persist, with insurance negotiations ongoing for his chronic nerve problems.
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Ten years after Larry Cox was brutally attacked and struck in the head with a hammer by armed bandits, he is still awaiting compensation.
The 72-year-old Cox was entering Scotiabank, Worthing, Christ Church, to make a deposit when the robbers struck, resulting in him spending five days in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) after undergoing emergency surgery.
Cox told a Nation team that all of the necessary documentation had been forwarded to his attorney Duana Peterson after waiting for past five years for a doctor’s report.
When contacted, the attorney said: “We have the medical report and the quantified claim is at the insurance company and it is being negotiated.”
Cox said in an earlier interview that he had a hole in his head and, on being discharged from the QEH, “it was doctors, doctors, doctors”.
The pensioner added that the insurance company, United Insurance, has been paying his medical bills every time he sees a doctor, but he complained of chronic problems with his right arm, saying that he fell after being struck in the head and suffered a pinched nerve.
In responding to the matter, chief operations officer of United Insurance, Randy Graham, said: “The team is fully engaged with the matter and are trying to settle it for him as fast as possible. As soon as they get the quantifications done they will deal with the lawyer and try to have it resolved.”
Cox said the chronic nerve problems were at times so severe that they prevented him from putting on his clothes.
“I was sitting comfortably at the table one night and the next morning I could not even raise my hands,” he lamented.
He questioned the time it is taking to have the matter resolved, saying that he was not a young man and still had to try to make ends meet financially.
Cox said it brings tears to his eyes every time he reflects on what happened to him that day, November 10, 2014, knowing that he could have died.
“I have to live off of my pension money and yuh mean I did not die then but it looks like if I could die now before I get this settlement?” he asked. (JB)
