Whiplash is perhaps the most common injury sustained in a motor vehicle accident. The injury occurs when a person’s head is propelled in a backwards direction while their body is forced in a forwards direction as a result of a collision.
Whiplash injuries can cause damage to the muscles in the upper back and the [...]

The Occupiers’ Liability Act 1957 is a piece of legislation which requires the owner of every private premises in which members of the public are permitted to enter to do everything they can to protect visitors from harm. A private premises can be anything from a shop or a hotel to a car park, [...]

A plasterer is reportedly suing Edinburgh City Council for injury compensation after he was hurt saving a mother and baby from a falling school gate.
Warren Anderson, 31, was working at James Gillespie’s High School when he saw a heavy wooden school gate with snapped hinges was about to fall on a woman pushing a [...]

More than 300 miners from the North East of England are continuing their fight for compensation for knee injuries caused by working in collieries, even whilst facing significant delays in their case.
According to a report in the Sunderland Echo, the 335 miners are being represented by two mining unions, the Durham Colliery Mechanics’ Association [...]

A man who was born at the Fairfield Hospital in Bury more than 20 years ago has now received a total of £3.35 million in birth injury compensation from the NHS.
Adam Spinks, now 24, was born at the hospital in December 1986 but during his birth, his family say hospital staff made mistakes which led [...]

During your life, it is likely that you will encounter a number of medical professionals, from doctors and dentists to nurses and maybe even surgeons. Medical care is something that many people depend on, but if a medical professional or care provider lets you down in some way, the effects on your life and your [...]

A man from Little Horton in Bradford is reportedly seeking injury compensation after he suffered serious burns which were believed to have been caused by chemicals in his sofa.
Stefan Wasylkiw said that he sustained the injuries back in December 2009, when he was sitting on the sofa he had happily owned for nine months watching [...]

A shopping centre in Leicestershire has agreed to pay a significant amount in personal injury compensation to a woman who slipped and fell on a wet floor.
Gweneth Bowler slipped on the wet floor of a bridge link to the entrance to the Highcross Shopping Centre, fracturing her shoulder and hop as he fell. The [...]

A young girl from Carlisle has reportedly been awarded a total of £5.6 million in birth injury compensation after hospital mistakes during her delivery left her with extensive brain damage.
The eleven year old, who has not been named, was born at Carlisle’s Cumberland Infirmary. However, during her birth, hospital staff failed to notice [...]

Slips, trips and falls happen all the time, and they can happen anywhere. Sometimes they are unavoidable accidents in which nothing but clumsiness is to blame, but on other occasions, there is something that could have been done to prevent them.
Some people get away with just a bruise or a scrape after a slip, trip [...]