Oslo municipality has been sentenced in the Court of Appeal after a diving accident on Sørenga in 2018. Photo: Fredrik Varfjell / NTB
The doctor, who happened to be nearby, was supposed to help a lifeless person in the sea at Sørenga in July 2018 when he hit an underwater embankment and suffered a complicated ankle fracture.
Oslo municipality was acquitted in the district court, but has now been sentenced in the court of appeal after the late doctor Henning Hoyer was injured in a diving accident at Sørenga in 2018.
Hoyer was supposed to help a lifeless person in the sea at Sørenga in July 2018 when he hit an underwater embankment and suffered a complicated ankle fracture.
Clearer duty to notify
In 2022, he sued the municipality. He lost in the district court, but Hoyer died just before the case in the court of appeal started, reports
Aftenposten.
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A unanimous Borgarting Court of Appeal is clear that Oslo municipality is liable for damages after what happened.
The court reasons that the underwater embankment at the site is man-made, and believes that the municipality had a duty to ensure that the danger was warned more clearly.
Considering appealing
The municipality will not comment on the verdict directly to Aftenposten.
– We will now review the judgment and will also assess the decision together with our lawyer. The question of whether the judgment should be appealed will also be considered, says Oslo municipality at Arve Rosland to the newspaper.