She turned down six months' pay to sue her employer. The court watched the CCTV
A Singapore security officer who walked away from a work injury payout to sue her employer for negligence lost her case on 25 May 2026 before District Judge Evans Ng, who dismissed the action after finding her case had not established any breach of duty.
The claimant, Mdm Nirmala d/o Thangavellu, was deployed by Acestes Pte. Ltd., referred to in the judgment as APL, as a security officer at a condominium along Fernvale Road. On 4 August 2021, at around 7pm, she rolled her right ankle near the loading bay. She said in her affidavit that a delivery cyclist had ignored her, ridden through a gap beside the entry arm, and that she had to give chase on uneven ground.
A WICA claim followed. The Commissioner for Labour assessed compensation at a sum the judge described as more than six months of her then-salary. Mdm Nirmala filed a notice of objection citing "Settlement under WICA is insufficient", then more than a year later instructed Whitefield Law Corporation and counsel from R Kalamohan Law LLC to file an originating claim in negligence against APL. By that point she was time-barred from resuming the WICA claim under sections 41(4) and 63(6) of the Act, a risk the judgment flagged at the outset: an unsuccessful claimant in that position, the court noted, "could end up empty-handed and be liable to pay costs of the unsuccessful action".
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