Lifts are one of the common phobias that people have. Some people don’t think twice before entering a lift but other people do have a genuine fear of them. While in the most part lifts have proved to be safe and necessary, they have also been the cause of accidents resulting in serious injury and even death. I would argue that lifts are perfectly safe providing they are regularly checked and maintained by suitably qualified and experienced engineers. A simple internet search will give you examples of injury and death caused by lift accidents.

We all probably accept that lifts are necessary, especially for disabled persons or people with a trolley or pram. However I do think they fuel laziness in some people. Personally I would always choose to walk up a flight of stairs unless I had a pram with me. However I can understand using a lift if you are required to go up multiple flights of stairs, in a hospital for example. I don’t agree with taking the lift purely out of laziness but that is just me. I feel that lifts should only be used by people who need to use them.
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Many jobs, particularly those involving a great deal of manual handling, put people at risk of sustaining a twisting back injury. It doesn’t take much to twist whilst carrying a box to injure your back. Whether you pull some ligaments or dislocate a disc in your back, the pain can be agonising and severely debilitating.

If your job involves manual handling, there is an important duty on your employer to prove you with manual handling training and instruction. The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 state the following:
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Accidents involving a driver pulling out a junction from a minor road on to a major road are extremely common. The right of way is on the motorist proceedings on the major road. The driver emerging from a side road must give precedence to anyone on the road they are trying to merge on to.

These accidents are very common for motorcyclists. It’s a lot easier to spot a vehicle on a major road, whereas it may not be so easy to spot a motorcyclist who is much, much smaller in size. Although the majority of motorcyclists wear reflective clothing and have Modulating Headlights which catch the eye of drivers as the flash, some drivers still fail to look out properly for motorcyclists.

The sorts of injuries motorcyclists generally receive can be fairly serious. Hitting a vehicle emerging from a side road will likely cause you to be thrown from your bike with a large amount of force. We represent a lot of motorcycle accident victims here because we specialise in these sorts of personal injury cases. Broken bones and head injuries are very common, and very worrying.
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If you have had an accident through no fault of your own, getting treatment on the NHS might involve a lengthy wait. That’s why we can offer treatment right from the start of your claim if we take the case on.

As long as our medical partners are happy to fund the treatment on the basis that we think you have reasonable prospects of success for the case, we can arrange for private funding for private care right from the start of your case to help you recover at a much quicker rate. The treatment can start shortly after you instruct us – so you get it when you need it the most.

If the claim is successful we can recover the fees from the other side. Insurers are not just liable to compensate you for your injuries, they are also liable to help you to recover as quickly as possible as well. For this reason, we can charge treatment to them.
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Personally, I would like to lean you towards the idea that we are the best injury lawyers out there. We are THE Injury Lawyers – a firm of specialist personal injury compensation lawyers. We are a real law firm, and we only deal with injury claims – so we are the specialists in our field.

So if you are shopping around, here are a few reasons why you may want to make your claim with us! If you speak with other firms, make sure you see how they compare to our enviable high levels of service:

Real Specialist Lawyers

As I said earlier, we are a real law firm – not some claims management company or accident advice service that is going to palm you off on any old lawyer and charge you for it. We have been dealing with injury claims for years so we have developed a specialist and bespoke service that is tailored to your injury claim needs.
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There are thousands of law firms in the UK alone that deal with personal injury claims. There are probably hundreds of firms who specialise and deal only with compensation cases. At the same time, there are thousands of accident management companies and claims management companies who people often mistake for law firms who will sell your claim to a lawyer.

So with all those companies out there, who on Earth do you choose to represent you for your personal injury compensation claim?

First advice, make sure you go to a law firm direct. If you go to a claims company, you may end up with extra charges. You are better off, in my opinion, finding a law firm and speaking to them directly for advice and representation.
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We deal with all types of personal injury claims and we are often asked about likely time scales for settlement. After you have been medically examined the medical expert will prepare a detailed medical report. Some cases may be brought to settlement shortly after obtaining medical evidence whereas other cases could drag out for some time.

In this blog I will attempt to explain why some cases will still take some time to settle. We always try to progress a claim as quickly and effectively as possible. In addition we try to recover you the maximum amount of compensation that you deserve.
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When driving a motor vehicle, whether the motor vehicle is a car, lorry, truck, motorbike etc – you owe a duty of care to other drivers and also to pedestrians. Equally, pedestrians owe a duty of care to motorists, albeit to a lesser extent. The standard of care is that of a reasonable, competent and experienced driver. Even a learner driver is subject to the same standard of care as a driver with a full license and experience.

Giving a lower standard of care would have been a risky move by the Courts, as we have to think about other areas, such as trainee doctors etc. The standard of care is to a competent and experienced driver (or a competent and experienced doctor). However with learners and trainees other measures are of course taken such as monitoring and in the case of learner drivers, the driving instructor ordinarily has foot controls so that he or she can intervene if absolutely necessary.
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If you have sustained injury as a result of a pothole in the workplace then you may be entitled to claim compensation. Of course we deal with many claims in relation to potholes but many are in relation to accidents on the street in a public place. The difference is that if you trip or sustain injury due to a pothole in a public place then the council are probably the authority responsible. If you trip or sustain injury due to a pothole in the workplace, such as in the works yard, then any claim would be against the employer if the land is owned by them. If the land is rented then it could be the landlord’s responsibility. But usually it would be the employer’s responsibility to ensure the land is safe and to ensure workers are not injured as a result of any defect (such as a pothole for example).

When we are talking about the workplace, The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 apply. These regulations do contain a specific part in relation to the organisation of traffic routes. The regulations state:
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The building industry can be a dangerous place to work and many workers in this industry are contract workers meaning that they work on numerous sites from week-to-week which they may not necessarily be familiar with. When builders are contracted to work on a particular site they must adhere to the health and safety rules and procedures on that site.

For example, builders may be responsible for making sure any scaffolding erected is safe. There is also a responsibility to keep tools and equipment out of traffic routes where they may cause obstruction for other people to trip on – whether it’s a colleague or a member of the public. When working on site there may be other firms of contractors on site or other workers who work at that particular site on a permanent basis. This is why contractors are required to have an induction and health and safety briefing before commencing work.
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