You’re walking along and your foot suddenly goes through the floor – stopping you in your tracks and causing an injury – what can you do about it?

Well you may have a claim for personal injury compensation if this has happened to you. We would defiantly be able to look in to a claim on a No Win, No Fee basis; no one expects their foot to just go through a floor.

Injuries caused can be widespread – whether you twist your knee or ankle because your still moving forward when your foot falls through, or whether your foot is badly bruised and grazed from the friction of falling in, this kind of thing should never happen. If it happens in a public place or a place of work, there may be a claim against those is in control of the premises / the employer.

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The Occupiers Liability Act is an important piece of health and safety legislation that puts a duty on those who are in control of a premises to take all reasonable steps to avoid visitors being injured. So keeping the place maintained is an important thing to do – allowing a place to fall in to disrepair and become a hazard would leave the owners of such a place liable to compensate any injured victims.

Some examples of slips and trips caused like this could be:

• From a piece of concrete or wall or roof coming off and causing a trip of slip hazard due to poor maintenance.
• Slip on a broken piece or section of fallen off tiling – these specifically can be very slippery.
• Injury caused by a piece of defective chair or table or other fixture that has broken off through ill repair.

So what happens if you are the victim of such an accident? Can you make a claim for personal injury compensation?

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The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 are an important set of regulations that govern manual handling activities in the workplace. Any lifting and carrying in the workplace can be dangerous and lead to serious injuries; normally to the back.

Slipped disc injuries are amongst the worse as they often result in a lot of pain, a need for a lengthy period of rehabilitation, a lot of time off work, and possibly even surgery and lifelong problems. So if you have slipped discs at work due to carrying and lifting, can you make a claim for personal injury compensation against your employer?
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We’re very in to giving the best advice we can right from the start – so when I read an article from the Express that discussed children claiming from schools, I thought I’d better write about it given the nature of the contents.

The article itself is reminiscent of the majority media news stories about claims – rife with tired cliches like the “compensation culture” and “ambulance chasing lawyers”. For anyone who has had to make a claim for compensation having been injured through no fault of their own, suffering serious injury and losing thousands of pounds in earnings, these stories can be insulting.
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Cycling is a great way of keeping fit, reducing our carbon footprint, and getting around at little to no cost whatsoever; something that’s key given the obscene prices of petrol nowadays. But one huge disadvantage is the lack of protection when it comes to an accident when riding a bike.

Hitting a pothole whilst riding a bicycle can result in some serious injuries. Hopefully you’re wearing a helmet to prevent or reduce any head trauma, but you’d be lucky not to break any bones if you go flying over the handlebars. Some potholes are very hard to spot and simply cannot be avoided.
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If you rent a flat, the landlord is responsible to ensure that you’re not injured through negligence. This means that if you’re injured because something was wrong or defective in the flat, you may have a claim if the landlord was responsible.

For example:

• Slips due to an unrepaired leak
• Trip on an unrepaired defect – such as a raised flooring tile
• Hit by a falling fixture that was dangerous
• Electric shocks from poorly maintained electrical goods or sockets

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Getting manual handling activities right in the workplace is very important – injuries are easy to sustain when manual handling tasks are not carried out safely. That’s why there are specific regulations called The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992.

But it isn’t just the practice of lifting and carrying safely that has to be done right – the route in which a load must be moved also needs to be risk assessed as well. When carrying a load, especially a large one, your view may be restricted and you’re probably concentrating on moving the load safely and not what’s beneath you on the ground.
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Any claim for medical negligence can be inherently difficult to win. The reason for this is that certain injuries are not always easy to identify. Sometimes follow up appointments need to be made and clinicians need to wait to see how symptoms develop before taking action and making a proper diagnosis.

But sometimes, things are simply missed.

A knee ligament injury can result in serious and lifelong suffering and potential disability. It’s therefore important to get the right standard of care or you can end up unnecessarily suffering or being worse off if action isn’t taken early on enough. Even a simple tear can become a serious problem if not treated early on, with ligament ruptures often being the worse.
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A claim for personal injury compensation for a slipping accident can sometimes be difficult to win when it comes to spillages. The reason for this is that the duty, whether it’s against a supermarket or your employer, is that areas of the premises need to be routinely inspected to clear away hazards. So if you slip on a spillage and the other side can show they have taken all reasonable steps in inspecting the premises to prevent this from happening as much as they can, they can defend the claim.
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Whether it’s the Bognor Regis, Skegness, or Minehead resort, the last thing you expect is for your holiday to be hampered by having an accident through no fault of your own. We have represented a lot of clients who have needed to make claims for personal injury compensation after an accident at Butlins, so we’re used to dealing with them.

Health and safety at any holiday resort is of paramount importance. Everyone’s normally in high spirits and the kids are full of beans so the last thing people are thinking about is how to avoid an accident! The duty in law that Butlins have is to take all reasonable steps to prevent their customers’ form being injured. This is something they have to do in accordance with the Occupiers Liability Act.
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