Big heavy doors should normally have mechanisms to ensure they close slowly and avoid any unnecessary injuries – especially in a busy workplace!
But sadly for our client in this case she had to instruct our expert lawyers to make a claim from her employer because the slow release mechanism wasn’t functioning correctly, resulting in a heavy door bashing in to her arm.
She did the right thing instructing our expert team and we maximised her claim in the sum of £11,500!
The size of the door was described as very heavy and engineers who inspected the door after our client’s accident confirmed that the important safety mechanisms to allow the door to be closed slowly were not working. This was a clear breach of many important workplace regulations, including a failure to maintain a safe place of work, and a failure to maintain equipment in the workplace.
We persuaded the opponent to accept liability which they sensibly did, and we obtained a large amount of expert medical evidence to support our clients claim.
In this case our client was suffering from chronic elbow pains and problems as a result of the accident and our orthopaedic expert was able to provide a medico-legal report in support of the claim. We use this type of report to show the extent and severity of the pain and loss our clients suffer, and we always aim to use the best experts to get the highest quality reports.
Generally speaking the more you suffer, the more we get for you. There was an initial offer which equated to our client receiving just under £5,000 but we pushed on for the best settlement we could obtain for her and we were able to secure a payout of more than double the original referenced above. She settled for £11,500 in accordance with our advice.
It goes to show that the quality of your lawyer is important. There are firms out there who would rather you accept low offers as opposed to obtaining more evidence to prove why you should be able to claim for more. We always aim to maximise our client’s cases, which for us is easy to achieve. Why? Because we are expert injury lawyers who only represent victims for personal injury claims.
This means we can efficiently fight for better payouts and can guarantee our clients the best possible result we can get for them.
Have you had an accident at work?
Did you know that employers are legally obliged to have insurance that is there for employees to claim from if they have been injured in an accident?
If the accident could have been prevented and was caused by a breach of the many health and safety regulations we have here in the UK, you could be entitled to thousands of pounds in work accident compensation.
For help and advice simply call 0800 634 7575 today.
