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 [...]
Accident & Injury Claims and Compensation
Shopping centre pays out injury compensation to slip victim
Girl receives £5.6m birth injury compensation
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 [...]
Motorcyclist seeks car accident compensation following van collision
A motorcyclist from the Lincolnshire town of Spalding is reportedly seeking to claim car accident compensation after he was involved in a collision with a van.
According to the Peterborough Evening Telegraph, 52-year-old Melvyn Bottom was riding his Honda Goldwing motorbike along the A605 in February 2009 when he collided with a van that had [...]
Picking yourself up after a slip, trip or fall
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 [...]
Woman run over in childhood finally receives car accident compensation
A woman who was hit by a car as a child has finally had her car accident compensation claim approved, and she will now receive a total of £9 million.
Leigh Ann Blinkhorn, who is now aged 23, was hit by a moving vehicle when she was just nine years old and was crossing a [...]
Skip worker awarded £175k in work accident compensation
A man from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire has been awarded a total of £175,000 after his hand was crushed in a work accident.
At the time of the incident, back in January 2009, Heath Riley was employed by Burnley firm Enviro Skips Ltd. He was delivering a skip when another skip, which had been insecurely stacked, slipped [...]
Paralysed former tennis coach awarded £4m in car accident compensation
A former tennis coach who was left paralysed after being knocked off his bicycle by a hit and run driver has been awarded a total of £4 million in car accident compensation.
Patrice Gougam, a cycling enthusiast, was reportedly riding along the Great North Road between Potters Bar and Barnet back in 2009, when he [...]
Claiming compensation for industrial disease
If you are exposed to a hazard whilst at work and it damages your health, you have the right to seek compensation. It may be that your employer didn’t properly assess the risks before giving you a particular task, properly train you in how to complete it, or that tools or equipment were defective.
Whatever [...]
£2k injury compensation for woman who bit into ‘rock hard’ oven chip
A woman from Richmond Hill in Leeds has won £2,200 in injury compensation from the frozen foods company Aunt Bessie’s after she bit into an oven chip containing a hard foreign object.
Susan Stapylton, 60, lost a filling after biting into the potato product, and suffered subsequent problems because of this.
According to a report [...]
Chocolatier fined for work accident, compensation claim could follow
The high street chocolate chain Thornton’s has reportedly been fined a total of £20,000 after a worker fractured a finger in a foil wrapping machine.
An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that the injuries Ellen Yardley, 37, sustained when attempting to clean inside a wrapping machine chute could have been avoided. [...]
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