Have you been injured in an accident due to a wobbly paving slab?

Whether you tripped, slipped, or fell due to a wobbly paving slab, however minor or serious your injuries are, you may be able to make a claim for compensation. It may be that one of several organisations could potentially be liable for your accident. This could be either the local authority / local council, The Highways Agency, or a private landowner if it was a shop front or other places like that. For the majority of claims due to accidents of this nature, the local Council is the one to blame for not maintaining the land on which you had your accident.

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Have you ever slipped on leaked water in a rental property?

As surprising as it sounds, these types of accidents are fairly common nowadays! Even in your home, an accident like this is likely to have shaken you up quite a bit. Whether you’ve sustained cuts and bruises or broken bones its likely you’ll be able to make a claim for your injuries.

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So what are you rights if you’re at work and suddenly the ladders provided to you collapse beneath you? Can you make a workplace claim for personal injury compensation?

As with most types of accident claims, it’s all circumstantial. We need to investigate how this has happened and what your employer could have done to have prevented the accident from occurring. If the ladders were faulty or unsuitable, or if the system of work was unsafe, you may be able to make a claim.

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When it comes to workplace accident claims, your employer has an important duty to adhere to The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 to ensure employees are not harmed when lifting and carrying in the workplace. These regulations are so important because getting lifting and carrying in the wrong way can easily lead to significant injuries.

Training is therefore key – but what if you have been trained but you have still been injured when lifting and carrying in the workplace? Can you still make a claim for personal injury compensation even if you have received proper and adequate training?

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If you are unfortunate enough to become injured in an accident which was not your fault, you may look to claim compensation for your injuries and resulting losses. This is where we come in; we are a law firm dealing solely with personal injury claims. We deal with all types of personal injury claims including road traffic accidents, trips/slips, accidents at work, medical negligence; all sorts! At the start of a claim, or if you are simply just making an enquiry, you will want to know how much compensation that you will get. Due to recent changes in the law most law firms will look to take a deduction from your compensation. This is because some legal fees are no longer recoverable from the Defendant and therefore some law firms are passing this loss onto the client (i.e. you).

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Offering you a 100% compensation agreement and offering you a no win, no fee agreement can actually be two very different things. People commonly associate the two together because for years most solicitors for personal injury claims have operated on a no win, no fee basis and the client will keep all 100% of their payout.

On top of that, a no win, no fee agreement is the common term applied for a Conditional Fee Agreement which would in fact take in to account what you pay whether the claim wins or loses.

But now the difference between the two is very important indeed because nowadays most lawyers won’t let you keep 100% of your payout anymore.

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As a car driver myself I am often left bewildered about the actions and manners of certain other road users. Unfortunately we can only control what we do ourselves. Some road users (you come across them most days) always appear to be in a rush, like the type that overtake you despite the fact that you are travelling at the speed limit, or the type that drive ridiculously close behind your vehicle for no apparent reason.

Although frustrating, you just have to concentrate on your own driving at times. Obviously no one wants the inconvenience of dealing with an accident, even if you were not injured or it was not your fault. Any type of accident will likely cause inconvenience to you.
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Sometimes a severe cut which leads to scarring may not be all that physically painful for a long time, but could be undesirable given that you may end up with a large and noticeable scar. Normally when it comes to making a claim for personal injury compensation, you’re entitled to money to reflect the severity and length of your suffering.

So if the cut itself only hurt for a few days, what about the fact you are left with a huge scar? Can this be claimed for?

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In short the answer is “yes, you can claim compensation for minor injuries.”

Unfortunately in law it is never quite so simple. By that I mean that different law firms may have different criteria that need to be met for that law firm to take your case forward. In theory you can claim compensation for very minor injuries; however if your pain and suffering only lasted for a day or a week, or in any event less than a month, then the value of your claim could be less than £1,000. This ultimately may mean that a law firm cannot act for you in your case as a law firm may not be able to recover legal fees if the claim is worth less than £1,000. This is the reason why a firm may not take such a case forward. However this does not necessarily mean that you cannot claim; you may have a small claim which you can bring yourself, for example.

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Wherever you work and whatever industry you work in, if you have to lift and carry anything at all, you should receive proper manual handling training and any manual handling tasks should be properly risk assessed and supervised. Everyone in our office is trained – the rules apply to everyone.

But one such industry where manual handling training is often inadequate or not carried at properly, or at all, is the catering industry. There are a lot of temporary and part time workers, and a lot of staff come and go in short periods of time. But this is no excuse. In fact, there is never an excuse.

So if you are injured when lifting and carrying in a restaurant, cafe, bar, or other catering environment, can you make a claim for personal injury compensation?

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