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In the same way there are a lot of unanswered questions over the liability and indemnity for autonomous vehicles, the same questions are also plaguing the growing use of drones.

You can buy outdoor drones and use them with barely any restrictions, but let’s face it; they can be dangerous and are known to come down unexpectedly or end up out of control.

With companies like Amazon wanting to use them for delivering parcels, we can safely say that the insurance and liability ought to rest with them; but what about the drones being used for personal use causing someone some serious damages?
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Last October, the U.K.’s top judicial body, the Supreme Court, held a local authority vicariously liable for the abuse suffered by a foster child.

Nottinghamshire County Council was responsible for organising the fostering of a child between the ages of seven and 18 in the 1980’s. During her placement in two different foster homes, the child suffered physical, emotional and sexual abuse by her foster parents.

After a lengthy legal battle, the Supreme Court has found a local authority vicariously liable for the abuse.
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The Care Quality Commission published a report this year on a care home in Derbyshire where it was found that the care home residents had suffered neglect in the form of not being fed properly; being locked in the home; and not receiving medication.

Gresley House Residential care home in Derbyshire was deemed inadequate and required improvements based on the report findings of the Care Quality Commission (CQC). The report found that resident’s health and wellbeing were at risk, with one person sustaining an injury from a fall that happened sometime during the night.

Appallingly, the resident was not found till 7am the next morning.
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Personal injury compensation is awarded to someone who has been involved in an accident that was not their fault. Those that have been injured due to someone else’s negligence can generally recover two things: general damages, and special damages.

General damages are to compensate for any pain, suffering, or loss amenity due to the injury. Special damages covers expenses and future losses that a person will incur directly because of the incident. This can include travel expenses, clothing, loss of earnings etc…

This financial settlement is meant to help those who have suffered an injury to get their life back on track, or as near as, before the injury happened. So how do we calculate a claim for a broken arm, for example?
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Well, by coming to this site, we’re confident you have already found one!

But let me back this statement up by letting you in on some industry secrets that can help you to know when you have found the best injury lawyer within the UK. There are a lot of firms out there and we often work very differently from each other. Fees, service levels, quality, experience, and how the basics of the claim are run can vary significantly.

So let us tell you how we work at The Injury Lawyers because we think this is what makes for the best injury lawyers. And we’ll tell you what to compare it to as well.
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Whilst it is very difficult to determine exactly how long a personal injury claim can last, we can do things to speed the process up and offer our clients a rapid claim settlement as best as we can.

For most straightforward cases there is a set procedure in place, and we can use our efficient systems and ways of working to get a case settled faster. We are expert injury lawyers who only help people make injury claims – this makes our process not only faster but more effective in producing positive outcomes.

Read our 5-step guide to help speed up your claim!
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Did you know that we have been helping thousands of people recover compensation all over the UK with our decades of experience and our high-tech systems? Well you do now!

We have helped clients recover compensation as victims of negligence all over the UK territories – that’s England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. We offer a bespoke service that gives our client access to local facilities throughout the UK, making our already enviable service levels even better for our clients.
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Well, there is nothing that legally stops you from being offered a 100% compensation agreement, but for most types of cases it is highly unlikely.

Sadly the law changed two years ago and the government stopped you from recovering all of your legal fees from the opponent. Just to add insult to injury, the government also introduced tighter fixed fees and slashed the costs that lawyers can recover to unworkable amounts.

Trust me – what we can recover is grossly below the level of work we have to do on many cases.
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Personally I’m not a fan of trains. I can’t stand how busy and crowded they can get especially in the sweltering summer heat when you are forced to stand in between carriages without access to any air conditioning. But putting my disliking for trains aside for one moment, let’s talk about injuries at train stations because they can be a very common occurrence.

If you have had an accident at a train station and suffered injuries as a result, you are certainly not alone. Read on for legal advice about where you stand.
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With so many law firms to choose from to represent you for your claim for personal injury compensation, people will often end up short listing solicitors based on criteria such as their location.

It makes sense I suppose – if you have a local law firm dealing with the claim then you could have access to see them whenever you wanted and you ought to be guaranteed that you won’t need to travel around as part of the case.

But you could be losing out by using a local lawyer for a claim for compensation – read on for why.
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