It’s difficult to think that anyone could really suffer a serious injury working in an office environment. I mean it’s not like a building site or even a factory shop floor yet a high number of office workers suffer injury that can keep them out of employment for months on end. One of the most common injuries suffered by office workers is repetitive strain injury estimated to cost British businesses around £300million a year in lost working hours.

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With the rising fuel prices in this country we have witnessed more people take cheaper, alternative ways to travel into work and one of those rising popular methods of transport is the bicycle. However, cyclists, run a risk of accidents on the road. Many bicycle accident claims involve cyclists being accidentally hit by motorists or suffering an injury through poor road surfaces.

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Defective products come in many forms such as high heel shoes that snap and break your ankle or a top breaks apart and injures a child to the brakes in a car failing and causing a traffic accident leaving the driver with whiplash. In these instances of a product being defective and causing an injury to a person there is a good chance that a compensation claim will be awarded.

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At The Injury Lawyers we cannot stress enough to people looking to make a car accident claim, where they have suffered an injury through no fault of their own, of the importance in collecting information from the scene of the accident. Especially when you consider that insurance companies are becoming increasingly tough on claims that are not set-out properly to the extent where they will reduce the payment to the claimant or even quash the claim completely.

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Vibration White Finger is a work injury suffered by those who use vibrating machinery such as drills, chain saws or hand guided power tools. Miners, road and forestry workers are the main areas where Vibration White Finger injury is most common. However, anyone who works with heavy vibrating equipment for prolonged times especially in a cold climate are also likely to suffer from this work injury.
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Manchester United starlet, Ben Collett, was awarded £4.5 million in damages yesterday in compensation after he received a football injury while playing for Manchester United reserves. Ben, who is now 23 years old, had been at the club since he was 9 years old, was injured back in 2003 in a reserve match against Middlesbrough when he was just 18.

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Recently The Injury Lawyers were asked to comment on a compensation case that grabbed quite a lot of attention from the media. You can watch the video of one of our partners, Aman Johal, below being interviewed by GMTV.

It is interesting to note that when the media want an independant decision about the complexities of personal injury cases they come to a reliable and experienced firm : The Injury Lawyers

Asbestos related cancers are killers. For over 5 decades people worked with and were exposed to asbestos on an everyday occurrence unaware of the harmful fibres within asbestos products they were being exposed too. Nowadays, asbestos products are more regulated, however it has been reported that there is a growing trend in Mesothelioma cases as the cancer can lie dormant for over 25 years in some cases before surfacing.

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When it comes to dealing with compensation accident claims for children then a large dose of commonsense is required from all interested parties. No matter if its the personal injury lawyer dealing with the case, the insurance company defending the claim, the judge overseeing the injury claim or finally the parents of the child involved.

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Construction sites also commonly known as building sites are a prime example of dangerous working environments. With so many things happening, usually in confined spaces, accidents are bound to happen. Health and safety in construction sites is imperative because of the equipment used and also the dangers faced by construction workers.

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