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Concrete can break, raise, and crumble under the stresses of bad weather and pressure from vehicles constantly driving over surfaces. If you drive, you’ve probably seen potholes littered everywhere on our highways, and it’s a mission in itself to dodge them and avoid damaging your car.

But what happens if you’re in a car park and you trip due to a pothole or other defect on the surface? Can you make a claim for personal injury compensation from the council or whoever is in control of the car park?

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Working in kitchens, garages, factories, and many other places of employment puts employees at risk of slipping on spilled grease or oil that could end up on the floor. Workers rushing around in busy restaurant areas will often result in spillages on the floor, and factories and garages may also result in spillages generally as well.

So what happens if you slip as an employee on some spilled grease or oil in the workplace? Can you make a claim for personal injury compensation?

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Walk in fridges and walk in freezes are common in many workplaces, particularly those in the catering industry. They can, for many reasons, be very dangerous to employees, so employers need to take as many precautions as possible to prevent a person from being injured in a walk in fridge or freezer.

If you have an accident in a walk in fridge or freezer, you may be entitled to make a claim for personal injury compensation.

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Mats are normally there to prevent hazards – like water accumulating from rainfall at the entrance to a supermarket for example. But mats themselves can be a severe hazard if they are not secure to the ground. If they are loose and on a tiled surface, you could step on the mat and it could easily end up slipping from under you, causing an accident

So if you are the unfortunate victim of stepping on to a mat which is not secure and it has slipped, causing you an injury, do you have the right to make a claim for personal injury compensation?

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Here’s a step by step guide on how to start a claim for personal injury compensation with The Injury lawyers!

As a firm of specialist personal injury lawyers with years of happy clients and thousands of pounds in compensation won, we take the hassle and fuss away to make the claims process as easy as possible. Unlike many other traditional law firms, our unique way of working ensures that you get the best payout in the quickest time possible.

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You might think that I’m going to discuss with you about the pitfalls of potentially instructing a lawyer with a 100% compensation agreement that may not be all that it seems – in actual fact, this article is about making sure you come to a firm like us that offer 100% payouts and making sure you don’t fall for the tricks of a 25% compensation solicitor.

A lot of people will speak to us and we’ll explain about how our 100% compensation offer works. We’ll send you out some paperwork and in the meantime you’ll probably speak to other solicitors as well.

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Trolleys, stock cages, and pallet trucks are of course extremely useful for handling large quantities of items or heavy items that could cause injuries when lifting manually, or can’t be lifted manually at all.  Training, as always, should be provided to make sure that people can use equipment like this safely.

But one thing that can easily be overlooked is using equipment like this on uneven or sloped surfaces. If you have ever done this, or ever even pushed a shopping trolley down a hill or on uneven ground when it’s loaded with heavy items, it can make it much more difficult to do.

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It sounds like something from a horror story – having surgery and feeling pain and discomfort, only to find out that a surgical tool, instrument, or other item has somehow been left inside of you! The sheer thought of it is totally gruesome!

So what happens if you have surgery and find out that you need a second operation to remove something that shouldn’t have been left in there in the first place? Can you make a claim for personal injury compensation?

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This isn’t a straightforward question to answer – so to guide you in the best way I possibly can, I’ll explain the process and some general timeframes and tell you the main factors that affect the length of an accident at work personal injury compensation claim.

One important thing to know though is that the quality of your lawyer can affect the speed in which it takes to settle a claim, so make sure you go to the best like us!

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In the past, for most accident claims, lawyers would not take a percentage from your payout and 100% compensation was a common thing. But you’re probably reading this as you have noticed that lawyers now want to take a cut of up to 25% from your compensation if you claim with them!

So what happened to 100% Compensation? Why are lawyers now wanting to take 25% from you payout?

Simply put – the government changed the law.

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