Injured Erin McNaught in 2009 / Pic: Noel Kessel Source: The Sunday Telegraph
Model Erin McNaught leaves the Royal North Shore Hospital in 2009 / Pic: John Grainger Source: The Daily Telegraph
ERIN McNaught and Channel 9 tech show CyberShack could settle a lawsuit brought by the model out of court before her claims are aired in full in a hearing before a judge.
McNaught came close to losing a finger while filing a story for the program in 2009 after an electric dirt bike she was testing fell, trapping her right hand in the disc brake.
Following emergency micro-surgery, the former beauty queen, who is right-handed, was ordered by doctors to do five-minute physiotherapy exercises every hour on the hour for three months in an attempt to regain 80 per cent use of her finger.
Sources said she failed to make a decent recovery and is suing CyberShack, standing to gain a payout of up to $750,000.
The parties briefly returned to the Downing Centre District court yesterday ahead of a conference between McNaught's lawyers and CyberShack production company CBN Media in June.
No date has been set for a hearing, which could see the model take the stand to give evidence against her former employer.
Host of the show, gadget guru Charlie Brown, said: "Any incident when someone gets hurt is far from ideal. Hopefully it will all be sorted as soon as possible."
