In April 2013, the government stopped lawyers being able to recover all of their fees from the other side. They did this because they think that an accident victim should have more of an “interest” in their claim. We think it’s unfair – why should the victim lose some of their compensation that is meant to be recovered to compensate them for what’s happened in the first place!?

Now, other law firms are deducting up to 25% from their clients compensation payout to cover something called a Success Fee which is no longer recoverable. 25% is the maximum they can take from you.
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Whilst the use of the phrase “fallen off the back of a lorry” may usually refer to people obtaining goods for free or at a cut price, we have taken on claims for personal injury compensation where workers have been hit by stock cages or goods falling off by accident and injuring them.

So what happens if you are injured because someone fetching stock from a van or lorry fails to secure a load properly and it falls off and hits you? Or perhaps it isn’t secure in the first place?
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If your job demands that you have to work at low heights and kneel, or just kneel down in general, your employer is bound by law to provide you with personal protective equipment (often known as PPE) to protect your knees from being injured.

Sustaining a knee injury from kneeling can be easy to do – and unfortunately knee injuries can result in severe and long term disability. So it is important that employers abide by the law. Engineers, plumbers, electricians – anyone who may have to work in small spaces on their knees should be provided with things such as knee pads and soft matting to kneel on.
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The coccyx, also known as the tailbone, can cause a lot of pain and discomfort when injured. It can very easily be injured from falling down and landing on your back or your buttocks. The pain, sometimes referred to as coccydynia, can last for a number of weeks or months and unfortunately there isn’t a great deal that can be done, or will be done, about it.

The NHS will normally just treat a coccyx injury with pain medication. You can’t really have any kind of physiotherapy in the area either, so it really is a waiting game. It can cause a lot of pain when sitting down or moving around so it’s common for most people to have lengthy periods off of work when suffering with a coccyx injury.
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Whilst this may seem like a hilarious thing to witness, falling down a manhole is no laughing matter at all. We take on a lot of these types of claims from either missing covers or damaged covers that collapse inwards when stepped on. No one expects the cover to just cave in.

The injuries that a person can sustain can be serious – particularly if you fall part or all the way in. Bone and ligament damage is common in both lower and upper limbs caused by impact trauma, as well as severe lacerations and bodily harm caused when falling down.
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Like other large retailers, Sainsbury’s have insurance that people just like you can claim from in the event you are injured in one of their stores. Whether it’s a superstore or one of the many Sainsbury’s Local stores around the UK, we as a specialist firm of personal injury lawyers can help you to claim.

Can you claim?

Common examples of accidents in a Sainsbury’s store are:
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The Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992 state that an employer must provide, pay for, risk assess, and maintain protective equipment to employers where their health is at risk. Eye protections falls within the scope of Personal Protective Equipment, or PPE as it is known in short.

Common examples where eye protection could be necessary are:
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We expect a certain level of professional care when it comes to treatment and advice received from doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and any other healthcare professionals. Whilst it’s clear there are a lot of underfunding issues with our public health service, we do see an awful lot of mistakes that end up costing people their health.

When it comes to being given the wrong medication, this should just never happen. Whether you have been misdiagnosed and given the wrong medication, or just given the wrong type or dosage after a correct diagnosis, you may have a valid claim for personal injury compensation either from the NHS or a pharmacist depending on who is at fault.
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When injured in the street, most people are the victim of a trip or fall accident caused by defective paving or potholes. But slipping accidents can be equally as dangerous, caused by the same sorts of defects.

You could slip on the edge of a pothole, or slip on broken and crumbled concrete around a defect. A loose paving slab or cobble stone could move and cause you to slip.

The law is generally the same; as long as the defect was the cause of the injury, you may have a valid slip, tip or fall injury claim for compensation. In fact, slipping accidents can sometimes be worse if you twist your knee or your back. You could easily cause serious ligament damage even if you don’t end up falling to the ground.
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Around the colder months of the year we see an increase in people making injury claims involving potholes. The reason for this is simple – potholes are commonly formed when water seeps in to cracks in the surface of roads and paths. Freezing conditions allow the cracks on the ground to expand and grow into what we know as a pothole.

So what happens if you’re walking along and you catch your foot on a pothole? Whether you fall or not, if you are injured due to stumbling or hitting the ground, or perhaps through twisting a part of your body, here is what you need to know about claiming for pothole compensation.
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