Lifting too much in any environment can be a real recipe for disaster. The last thing anyone wants to do is injure their back – which is ultimately one of the worst areas to injure yourself! Back injuries can often be lengthy, painful, debilitating, and cause long term problems. That’s why we have The Manual Handling Operations Regulations to protect employees in the workplace from excessive lifting injuries.

So what are your rights and what can you do if this has happened to you? Read on for more info about making a workplace claim for personal injury compensation for manual handling injuries.

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Dairy products can easily be spilled; and when they land on a hard floor, they can become a dangerous slipping hazard. The old saying ‘don’t cry over spilt milk’ may not apply to the victim of an accident who has twisted their knee or broken their arm due to a dairy product spillage.

Whether it’s a spilt patch of milk in Morrison’s or some ice cream melted on a shopping centre floor, what are your rights if you slip on a dairy product spillage? Can you make a claim for personal injury compensation?

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Interestingly this is the second news story I’ve seen recently where the media appear to be hitting out at the council for refusing to pay out for pothole claims. As an injury law firm, this is most unusual because we often find it’s the media hitting out at lawyers and victims for claiming against a local authority!

This story comes from our home county of Derbyshire, and tells the tale of a student left with a £210 bill for car damages that the council are refusing to pay. So let’s take a look at what’s happened.

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For most road accidents, it’s usually easy to establish who is at fault. If someone goes in to the back of you or pulls out from a side road in to you, they’re the one who should be accepting the blame.

But sometimes there are circumstances where it can be hard to show exactly who is to blame. A lot of it is down to what version of events people give as to what happened. If you have an honest person who is willing to hold their hands up and accept responsibility for what they’ve done, then great. But what if you don’t?

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It sounds both embarrassing and clichéd – being injured and making a claim for personal injury compensation for slipping on nothing more than a bit of vegetable on the ground. But for the victim, it’s not as funny or as daft when it comes to making a claim as some might assume.

It only take one little bit of cabbage or carrot to cause a slipping accident. Especially when mashed and trodden on, vegetables like this can make for a slippery bit of ground. So if you are the victim of a vegetable slipping accident, what can you do?

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Gloves can be an important piece of equipment used in the workplace to protect you from hazards to the hands and arms. Whether you need to handle hot liquids, sharp objects, or chemicals, they can be used as an effective measure of protection from dangers in the workplace.

Gloves at work fall within The Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations category, which is something employers must abide by. In this blog, we’ll be looking at the suitability of gloves, not the actual provision of them.

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For the most part, I expect that a delivery driver’s main concern when it comes to an accident is a road accident. With them being on the road so much, the likelihood of being in an accident is of course higher. But what about pothole accidents caused when you are employed as a delivery driver?

We all know that the state of our roads in some areas is extremely poor. And you may end up falling over due to a pothole on a delivery destination. Read on for more advice.

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If someone drives in to the back of you, it is highly likely that you will have a successful claim for personal injury compensation. We often refer to rear end collision accidents as ‘no brainers‘ because they are almost guaranteed winners.

If someone has hit you from behind, it usually means that they have failed to stop in time. Whether it is down to driving too fast, not braking quickly or hard enough, or not paying attention in general, it’s normally their fault.

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The principle of a No Win, No Fee agreement should always be that the accident victim pays nothing if the claim doesn’t win. But there are some lawyers out there who will land you with a bill if the case is lost, and thanks to some legal fee reforms from last year, you may have to pay upfront fees as well.

So here is an explanation of what you should look for and what solicitors may still charge you if the claim doesn’t win.

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This unusual story comes from sources at The Daily Mirror and tells of the horrific facial and limb injuries a 74 year old lady suffered when she fell after slipping on a kerb she had difficulty seeing. The street in Lincolnshire has been revamped with colourful paving both on the road and the pathway, making the kerb allegedly difficult to spot.

North East Lincolnshire Council are now receiving calls to make the area safer and more than 50 people have been said to have signed an online petition.

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