Welding injury compensation claims
Welding can be a fairly dangerous task for rather obvious reasons. We have such stringent health and safety rules and regulations here in the UK to protect workers from being injured unnecessarily in the workplace.
Where a risk of injury can be reduced or completely avoided, an employer has a duty to take whatever reasonable steps are necessary to achieve this. So read on for more information about making a claim for personal injury compensation if you are injured in a welding accident at work.
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My solicitors want to charge me 25% – can I change to a different firm?
The government legal fee reforms from last year have resulted in most lawyers now taking at least 25% from their client’s payout to cover a Success Fee which is no longer recoverable from the other side.
Some people have entered in to agreements without realising that they will face potentially huge deductions, and when they get to the point where they have realised what they could lose some money, they want to change to a different lawyer.
So if this has happened to you, can you change solicitors and get a better deal elsewhere?
Slipped on a clear liquid – can I make a claim for compensation?
A clear liquid like water, certain types of soap, or petrol can be very hard to spot, if not impossible to spot, on the floor. As such, they pose an obvious but often unseen slipping hazard in places like shops, supermarkets, halls, or places of work.
So if you slip on a clear liquid, can you make a claim for compensation?
Can I still claim if I was paid in full or didn’t have any time off work?
People are often worried about whether they can still make a claim for personal injury compensation when they have either not had to have any time off of work, or where they have had time off but have been paid in full.
But you don’t have to lose out on any earnings to make a claim – read on for how it works for a better understanding about still claiming without losing any earnings
Bus driver closed the doors on you? Advice from The Injury Lawyers
Amazingly we have taken on several claims where our clients have been injured by a bus driver closing the doors on them. Whether it’s down to a failure to pay attention or simply not seeing the client boarding the bus? There is a duty of care on bus drivers to ensure that their actions do not injure anyone.
So if this has happened to you then you may have a winning claim for personal injury compensation.
You do not have to have broken your arm to make a claim for personal injury compensation – you are able to make a claim where you sustained muscular injuries as well.
Any muscular injury, even when minor, can be pretty debilitating, and is likely to have a significant impact on your social, domestic, and work life.
So read on for some vital advice about what you can claim for and how much you could be expecting to receive.
Miss B awarded £1,050 for bed bug bites at a London Hotel
If the thought of bed bugs make your skin crawl, you may not want to read the rest of this article!
We took instructions from Miss B after she sustained bed bug bites following a stay at a London hotel; she was able to confirm that the bugs had come from the hotel bed after they were found there during the stay! Unfortunately she suffered from the physical marks of the bed bug bites on the skin as well as suffering from disturbed sleep for a while.
Soft tissue injuries, sprains, twists, and bruising to the foot and ankle
Many people think that you need to have broken something to make a claim for personal injury compensation, but this isn’t true. Soft tissue damage, which usually categorises for any bruising, sprains, or twisting type injuries to the muscles and ligaments in the area, is a claimable injury.
Many are worried whether it’s even worth claiming for – but there’s a lot more to claiming than you might think, so read on for some useful advice about what you can claim for and how much you could be entitled to.
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Injured moving a patient in hospital – advice from The Injury Lawyers
It doesn’t matter whether you’re tasked with moving a heavy box or a human being when it comes to employers adhering to The Manual Handling Operations Regulations. Working for the NHS in a hospital is no different and the rules still apply. Most people would struggle to lift or move a patient who weighs a light 10 stone or so – the rules must apply in any situation where heavy lifting may be involved.
10 stone is around 63kg which is a heavy amount to move – so if you are injured moving a patient in a hospital, what are your rights?
Mrs R awarded £10,000 after being hit by an air vent in fast food restaurant
We took instructions from Mrs R after she was hit by an air vent that staff at a mainstream fast food franchise were cleaning directly above her which fell and hit her whilst she was dining. She wasn’t aware that the staff were cleaning the vent which was positioned behind her on the roof – not that it would have mattered in any event.
Conducting such an activity with customers in the vicinity is clearly a dangerous thing to do, so we were more than happy to act for her on a genuine no win, no fee basis.