Whilst difficult to spot at the best of times, potholes can be seen and often dodged, as can raised or sunken paving slabs. But one of the worst forms of defects that are well known for being more difficult to spot is raises or sunken sections in the tarmac or concrete.

Raises or sunken sections can be caused by a number of things – tree roots under the surface lifting the ground up, or defects under ground causing the concrete to lower and sink. But what are your rights for making a claim in these kinds of scenarios?

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Any injury to any area of the body can be serious, but head injuries are of course famous for being potentially life changing. Hopefully you’ve escaped with some minor headaches, lacerations, or minor fracture injuries – but either way, read on for advice about what to do and where you stand when it comes to making a claim for personal injury compensation for head / brain injuries.

Payout ranges can of course vary significantly.

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It’s both terrifying and tragic to see the effects some injuries can have on a person’s life. When we talk of serious injury claims, a lot of people lean toward looking at permanent physical or mental disability; but facial disfigurement claims can have one heck of an impact on the victim’s life.

Let’s look at what we assess when it comes to the awards for these sorts of claims and we’ll take a look at the official guidelines for payouts for these types of cases.

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In no way am I knocking delivery drivers here – the point of this article is to advise the victim of an accident about their rights when it comes to accidents and injuries caused by a delivery driver.

The law is the law, and important health and safety legislation must be adhered to in order to prevent innocent people from being injured through no fault of their own. So if you are injured by a delivery driver, read on for info on your rights when it comes to making a claim for personal injury compensation.

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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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