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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I say this a lot on the blogs I write – there are loads and loads of rules and regulations that employers must abide by to protect their employees in the workplace. They cover all sorts of things that range from general workplace health and safety to manual handling and working at height.

When your job means that you or a part of your body will be exposed to a potential danger, your employer must take all reasonable steps to prevent an injury. So let’s look at eye injuries and how these can be avoided.

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Swimming pools can of course be inherently dangerous places. I mean, for one, the floor is likely to be very wet around the edges and walkways of the pool. Changing rooms and shower areas are also likely to get very wet as well.

In other circumstances, there could be unknown dangers and defects in the actual pool itself. So if you’re injured either in or around a swimming pool area, what are your rights when it comes to making a claim for personal injury compensation?
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