With an increase in the number of adverts for injury solicitors telling us to claim if we have had an accident in work has the compensation culture from the United States of America travelled across the Atlantic Ocean and have we, as a nation, decided to go after what we believe we deserve?
The latest Labour Force survey states that (more…)
“WHIPLASH” is the common term for an acute sprain of soft tissues in the neck from an impact such as a car accident. The frequency of this type of road traffic injury has been described by surgeons at the University of Manchester’s Department of Orthopaedic Surgery as “a modern epidemic”.
South Manchester University (more…)
Accident claims are now big business and there are hundreds of companies vying for your business. You only have to switch on the television and within the hour you can be assured that you will see at least a couple of personal injury compensation claim adverts. Just open the newspaper and see the number of ads for an accident at work, whiplash claim, personal injury compensation claim and road (more…)
Accidents at work can cause great anguish to those affected. It is an undeniable fact that employers have a moral obligation to ensure that they provide a safe environment for their employees. It is with this view that the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) was set up in the United Kingdom. The aim (more…)
Three year old Harvey Dellar faces his future with an artificial eye after an incident the National Patient Safety Agency calls a ‘Never Event’.
Harvey was just 12 months old when, in 2008, his optician noticed an inward turn in his right eye and referred him to Northampton General Hospital. When (more…)
Lady Justice Smith has granted an appeal for a builder who can never work again after suffering a shattered elbow, hip and thigh injuries when he fell off a ladder in a work accident while repairing a client’s roof.
Tomasz Kmiecic was injured in the work accident (more…)
It has been reported in the Independent that compensation payments made to prisoners in England and Wales has almost doubled in the last year to beyond £3 million. The figures, released by the Ministry of Justice, show an alarming trend in rising claims and financial settlements between inmates and the prison services.
A total of £3.2 million was paid out between (more…)
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