Amazon paid Liz Hurley £2,000 after driver ran over her labrador

Actress Elizabeth
Hurley.
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• Amazon paid £2,000 ($2,618) to actress Elizabeth Hurley
  after an Amazon driver ran over her dog Hector,
  the Daily Mail reports.
• The labrador sustained a collapsed lung and a broken
  leg after being hit by a
   van driver who
  worked for a company contracted by Amazon to deliver
  packages.
• Hurley told the Daily Mail that Amazon took nine months
  to pay out.

Liz Hurely’s two-year-old labrador Hector was run over by an
Amazon driver, and the tech firm has covered the
£2,000 ($2,618) vets fees,
the Daily Mail reports.

Hector was run over at Hurley’s estate in Herefordshire, and
sustained a collapsed lung and a broken leg. The driver in
question was employed by a company contracted by Amazon to
deliver its parcels.

Hurley’s sister Katie told the Daily Mail that the driver had
been going too fast.

“The van was driving too fast. Because it happened on the estate
a speed limit can’t be enforced so we ask people to use their
common sense, but he didn’t,” she said.

She also said that Amazon resisted paying the vet’s bills because
the driver was technically not an Amazon employee.

“Amazon clearly thought we’d give up and go away,” she said. Last
week the family threatened legal action, and Amazon agreed to pay
the bill.  Elizabeth Hurley told the Mail that it had taken
Amazon nine months to pay out.

Business Insider has contacted Amazon for comment.

Hurley stars in E! drama “The Royals,” which was reportedly cancelled last
month, while her movie roles include “Austin Powers: The Spy
Who Shagged Me” and “Bedazzled.”