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When it comes to accidents in a gym, we may be able to help you if something has gone wrong and you are injured through the fault of the people responsible for the gym. So I’m not talking about taking too much weight and injuring yourself, or falling over when using the treadmill. I’m talking about gym equipment breaking and causing an injury.

One example: let’s say you’re using a weight machine and something snaps causing you to take more weight than you can handle. Or perhaps a weight falls off and the sudden shift in weight causes an injury. In these kinds of scenarios, you may have a claim for personal injury compensation. Suddenly taking more weight or suddenly losing weight you were holding can cause a whole host of muscular and ligament injuries.
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There are lots of rules and regulations that employers must abide by in order to keep you safe from harm. When it comes to cuts / lacerations, your employer must take all reasonable steps to ensure that you do not end up cutting yourself open on anything sharp or dangerous.

When it comes to work equipment, we could be looking at a few common scenarios:

• Cuts from work equipment – like blades or internal parts of a machine
• Cuts from a cutting tool like a saw or angle grinder
• Cuts from externally exposed sharp edges on machinery or equipment

When it comes to working with internal parts of a machine where there could be sharp blades, sharp cogs, or other bits and pieces that would easily slice through skin, your employer should firstly warn of such hazards and secondly ensure that appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is provided when doing the task. In this kind of situation, you should have protective gloves that cover all areas of your hands, wrists, and arms that may be exposed.
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Having ruptured practically all the ligaments in one of my knee a couple of years back, I’m well aware of the painstakingly lengthy process involved in recovering for a ruptured ligament injury. The Posterior Cruciate Ligament (PCL) is the accompaniment of the more famous Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) which is injured commonly during sporting activities like football. You may remember the famous case of Michael Owen damaging his ACL back in 2006.

My understanding is that it’s a little harder to rupture the PCL with all the other ligaments surviving. Normally the PCL is the survivor. When I did mine, I ruptured all of them except for the ACL which instead snapped off the bone (which is easier to reattach) and the PCL which was severely stretched and bruised. The rest were completely destroyed and required replacement.
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There are loads of rules and regulations that employers must abide by to keep you safe from injury at work. When it comes to ladders, there are typically two areas that play the primary part in establishing that your employer has been negligent. These are:

• The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998
• The Work at Height Regulations 2005

Under The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998, Regulation 4 is key. This reads as follows:
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If you are burned at work, you may be entitled to claim for personal injury compensation!

In general, unless you were blatantly at fault yourself, you could have good prospects for success. This is down to the fact there are loads and loads of workplace regulations that employers must abide by, and as long as we can prove one has been breached and has caused the injury, you can make a claim.

So let’s look at a few examples:
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If you have been seriously injured through no fault of your own, you may be entitled to tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of pounds in compensation. If the consequences are life changing, you could be entitled to millions of pounds.

That’s why it’s important to get the right lawyer when making a claim for personal injury compensation, and it’s important to understand the importance of actually making a claim.

As our name suggests, we are The Injury Lawyers – this means we only represent victims for personal injury compensation claims, and we have a huge history of cases ranging from the minor to the life altering catastrophic injuries. So the advice in this article will hopefully give you the right guidance when looking to make your claim.
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It isn’t always easy searching for the right lawyer to represent you for your personal injury claim. Type any general search term in to Google or another search engine and its likely you will see hundreds of websites all vowing that they are the best choice for you.

We would of course love you to choose us, but in case you do want to shop around, use our guide to find the perfect injury lawyer for you:

Go Direct!

Most websites are not actually law firms, but claims management companies and accident advice services who will refer you to a law firm rather than actually act for you. This can result in you being charged for a middleman just to pass you to another lawyer who may charge as well.
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In the past, I would have written about the vast benefits of our service like regular updates, private physiotherapy, and a friendly and efficient service to try and win you over to the fact that we, in our humble opinion, are the best choice as a national personal injury law firm. But now, none of that matters to most people as it’s all about the COST. Here’s why:

April 2013

A dark month for the world of personal injury claiming when the government changed the law so lawyers cannot recover all of their legal fees from the opponent. The two things we can no longer recover are as follows:
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Here at The Injury Lawyers we are a specialist law firm and have many years of experience in dealing with personal injury claims. If obtaining treatment and paying for consultations is worrying you, don’t worry because we are here to help!

The Importance of Physiotherapy

Physiotherapy is important for recovering where your muscles have been damaged, stretched or torn in an accident. Physiotherapy aims to restore the movement to your injured muscles by many different techniques. Some of these include:
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With people rushing around in an effort to catch their train on time, despite most stations having faster clocks to try and dupe you in to thinking it’s later than it is, it’s no wonder that accidents in train stations are very common. The most common ones are slips and trips, and the Occupiers Liability Act imposes a duty on those in charge of the station to take all reasonable steps to prevent accidents occurring.
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