A woman received £18,000 for a badly broken leg when her 3 inch stiletto heels became stuck in a crack in a concrete patio.

The lady from Tewkesbury was outside her local pub when her heel became fast in the crack and she fell backwards through a disused toilet door. The result was a broken right fibula and tibia which required three operations and nine months off work. The lady insisted she wasn’t the worse for wear at the time and blamed the accident on inadequate lighting on the smokers’ patio where the accident happened. The public liability insurers for the pub settled the case out of court.

In another stiletto heel compensation case, the heel on a new pair of shoes collapsed on the first night the lady wore them. Her heel hit the floor so hard that the impact broke her ankle in the process. This time the insurers paid out £7,000 after the shoe chain Dolcis admitted that the shoes had been faulty.

We always said stiletto heels were dangerous!