Would you sue in these circumstances?

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I bought a poncey set of steps for my kitchen from a department store.
Yesterday I was on the top tread, a few feet off the ground, when they collapsed. I was thrown onto a stone floor and smacked my wrist against the edge of an open door.
Not broken but bruised and sore.
I phoned the dept store who swiftly offered me a refund - they don't stock the steps anymore and I am not sure I would want another set.
The woman then offered me an apology and £25.

I was talking to some people this morning and two of them were very insistent that I should sue. Not just for the money but in a civic duty kind of way.

I'm not going to but I am wondering if I am weird. Would most people sue?

Well, there you go then. That's why the steps collapsed - you were trying to clean out cupboards!

I wouldn't sue but I might write to the manufacturer and alert them to the issue. Well, I wouldn't, but I'd think about it until enough time had passed for the whole event to be a distant memory :o

You can sue for purely physical injuries (but it is not worth it for a bit of bruising). But if e.g. you are a passenger in a car that some idiot drives into and you break your arm, you can claim. Even though it wasn't your car so you suffer no financial loss. And even if it doesn't stop you working so there is no financial loss. There is a somewhat morbid compensation tariff that sets out X for a broken arm, Y for loss of sight in one eye, Z for facial scarring.

I wouldn't sue but I would write to the manufacturers, just in case the store 'forget' to.

And I'd stop doing silly housework & take it easy with some whilst you recuperate.

(But pleased to hear it wasn't more serious).