We reached an agreement today through a telephone conference with the Claims Facilitator
Regarding my claim for reimbursement of the Vet bills - I was able to speak at length with the dog's owner, and we cleared up some misunderstanding on both sides. In the end, I proposed that she pay 1/2 of the claim by e-transfer on her next payday, which is February 13th. If we could not come to an agreement, the alternative was to take it to an Adjudicator (about a month of waiting) and then back to the Tribunal ... another process that would take another 4 months.
I did not want this hanging over my life until the middle of summer; and because my a-hole brother (in a drunken rage that was totally out of line) fecked up any chance of she and I working it out between ourselves (which we both said we would have been able to do), at least this way I will recoup 1/2 of the vet bills. The dog's owner realized this was a more than fair proposal and accepted the terms. But don't think she got away too lightly - she's had to pay a hefty pound fee; fines for no dog licence tags (it got lost somewhere), the cost to repair a huge hole in her fence and her own Claims Court fee .... as well as reimbursing me 1/2 of the Vet bills.
Sometimes money isn't the only thing to take into account. This was my choice, my decision, and I'm okay with it.
