The University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust has set up a compensation fund for victims of skull surgeon Roger Bainton who used an experimental bone substitute and performed unnecessary treatment on patients, the BBC has confirmed.

Mr Bainton was suspended in 2013 and 88 cases were investigated with the General Medical Council finding at least 18 cases of people being harmed.
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There are loads of ways that a defective chair can lead to an injury being suffered by an innocent victim. Those in charge of a premises or an area have a duty to ensure that chairs are safe to use and are not liable to cause people an injury.

We are pleased to have recently settled a claim for just under £3,000 for a client who trapped his finger in a defective chair.
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A broken wrist is a fairly common type of injury that we deal with here at The Injury Lawyers. Many slips, trips, and fall claims often result in them and so do many work accidents.

So if you have broken your wrist are you entitled to make a claim for personal injury compensation? If so, what can you claim for? How much can you expect to receive?

As specialist personal injury lawyers our advice is comprehensive and real – read on for more of an insight.
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A scary statistic right here from The Injury Lawyers HQ is that we take on a lot of claims for personal injury compensation where people been the victim of a defective or missing manhole / utility hole cover. In fact, I refuse to walk over them; not out of superstition but because of just how many cases we take on involving covers breaking and / or collapsing inwards.

It can be a real fight to win claims for manhole cover compensation, but with The Injury lawyers on your side, you’ve got the best guys possible fighting your corner.
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We have successfully won compensation claims for victims of wing mirror accidents – something that may sound a little odd until I elaborate further on the subject.

Pedestrians and cyclists are perhaps in the greatest danger of being hit by wing mirrors of normally larger vehicles. Buses that come too close to pavements, or lorries overtaking cyclists, have caused these accidents in the past. As you may be aware, their wing mirrors are fairly sizable when compared to most normal vehicles.
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The government have released details of an investigation in to University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust where the deaths of mothers and babies have been attributed to failings at the maternity units.

The investigation found several serious failings, labelling the maternity ward at Furness General Hospital as “dysfunctional” in this latest damning report in to NHS quality of care.
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It’s difficult to know whether your claim for a supermarket slip will be successful or not when we take it on at the start of the case. For us to be able to find out if you have a claim or not, we need to submit a claim form to the supermarket (or their insurers) and allow them time to investigate the claim.

Whether you can win depends entirely on evidence from the other side – so when can a supermarket legitimately deny liability, and what can we do about it?
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Have you had a fall on a loose concrete step?

If you have been in an accident as a result of a loose concrete step you may be entitled to make a claim for personal injury compensation. If the step has caused you to fall and you have been injured as a result then you may have the right to pursue whoever is responsible for the step that caused the accident.
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We know that the NHS is stretched thin in many areas but this is no excuse to be let down in your hour of need.

As specialist personal injury lawyers we represent high volumes of medical negligence victims and many cases involve the failings of the accident and emergency departments. It’s important for you to know that you have rights if something has gone wrong as a result of an A&E visit.
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With our easy way of helping accident victims, your work accident compensation claim doesn’t have to take long to set up and finish at all.

As a firm of real injury lawyers who have helped thousands of accident victims and who specialise in work accident claims, we can settle many claims in a matter of a few months. Read on for an insight in to how we work.
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