Bin men are often wrongfully snubbed by society when in reality they perform one heck of a valuable job. But it’s also a potentially dangerous job, and we are more than used to taking on and winning claims for personal injury compensation for refuse collectors injured in the line of duty.

Whether you’re employed directly with a local authority or to a privately outsourced company, or even when you are an agency worker contracted to a company or council, you have rights!

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According to sources from BBC News quoting statistics from the RAC, young drivers are more likely to be in a collision than any other road user group. The stats show that nearly 12% of accidents that leave victims dead or injured involve drivers between the ages of 17 – 19, yet they only make up for 1.5% of drivers on the road.

There have been calls to introduce new legislation that can restrict what new and young drivers can do to help reduce accidents on the road.

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Whiplash is almost always in the news, and in the majority of circumstances it’s in the news for all the wrong reasons.

There is a negative stigma attached to making a whiplash claim that suggests it’s a bad thing to do, and this does put many people off the idea of making a claim for whiplash compensation. But one massive thing to note is this – unless you ever actually suffer a whiplash injury, you will probably never appreciate how serious it can be.

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Now that we’re well and truly in the warmer months of the year, more and more of us are digging out our bicycles and motorbikes now the winter months have passed so we can enjoy the freedom of riding in the great outdoors once more!

With the seasonal increase in bikers on the roads, together with the general increase in recent years in people taking to bikes as an often more healthier and cheaper mode of transport, we see claims on the rise.
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It can perhaps be seen as an unusual set of circumstances, but we get a surprising volume of calls from people who want to know their legal rights when they have tripped due to what they perceive as a dangerous door frame. What I mean by this is any raised edges in a doorway, which can of course be fairly common anyway.

If you trip, can you make a claim for personal injury compensation? Is there a claim for negligence if you trip due to a dangerous lip or rise in a doorway?

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Hotel owners have a clear duty to take all reasonable steps to ensure that guests staying on the premises are not injured. Rooms ought to be inspected very frequently given that housekeeping staff will often be in rooms for cleaning and bedding change purposes.

So what are you rights when it comes to making a claim for personal injury compensation if you’re injured in a hotel room?

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There should always be provisions in place to ensure that employees are not injured by falling equipment or machinery. Of course, these kinds of accidents are often serious – leaving the victims with either severe or fatal injuries.

Health and Safety for this kind of thing is strict as it should never be allowed to happen. Let’s take a look at when an employer can be negligent in this kind of scenario.
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I’ve worked in pubs and bars before – in the busy periods, it can be a rushed and occasionally stressful experience. There’s nothing worse than a crowded bar full of people all waiting desperately to be served their poison.

That, and the fact that places like these are often full of intoxicated people, means that there can be many hazards involved in working in this trade. So let’s take a look at some examples and the law when it comes to an employee’s rights to make a claim for personal injury compensation.

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Whilst you’d think that falling injuries are the most common when it comes to accidents for workers, another really common one is when boards and platforms for walking on are unstable or defective. We have won many claims for compensation against employers and scaffolding companies where someone has stepped on a dodgy board and has either fallen through it or part of their body has gone through.

If this has happened to you, what are your rights when it comes to making a worker’s compensation claim?

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The idea behind The Manual Handling Operations Regulations is to avoid the need for any kind of lifting in the workplace as much as possible. Equipment is a great way of eliminating potentially dangerous manual handling activities – but what happens if that equipment is broken and is taken away?

What happens if you are then forced to carry out manual handling activities as a result of the equipment that is used to eliminate the need for manual handling suddenly becoming unavailable?

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