Cyclist compensated for injury caused by pothole

The claimant had been cycling home one evening when his front wheel suddenly collided with a huge pothole at the side of the carriageway on Nacton Road, Ipswich. This caused him to flip over his handlebars and suffer significant injuries to both hands, cuts and bruising to his face and concussion. According to witnesses, the pothole […]

Compensation for hearing loss caused by dangerous work equipment

We recently succeeded in recovering £25,000 in compensation for a client who had suffered hearing loss as a result of an accident at work. The claimant worked as a general caretaker and had various roles, for which he was provided with numerous different machines and vehicles. One of these was an excavator which was around […]

Over £50,000 for worker injured by unsafe machine

A client recently received over £50,000 in compensation for a serious hand injury that he suffered at work. My client had been required to perform a task using a machine which was not adequate for the load being worked on. Part way through the job, the heavy load fell on to my client’s hand causing […]

Compensation for car park pothole injury

On a dark evening, my client tripped whilst walking through a car park that she had just parked her vehicle in. It transpired that this part of the car park was in poor condition – the surface had cracked significantly, causing a large pothole to form. My client tripped on that pothole and was badly injured. She […]

Court compensates baby injured by item falling from shop display

The Court approved a compensation settlement that we had agreed with a supermarket following an accident in which my client was injured by an item which fell from a high display shelf. A claim was submitted to the supermarket on the basis that they had acted negligently and in breach of their statutory duty of care in storing and displaying items for sale […]

Widow recovers compensation after fatal car crash

My client’s spouse was tragically killed in a car accident which was caused by another driver who lost control of his vehicle when not paying proper attention to the road. No amount of compensation was ever going to make up for my client’s loss but we needed to ensure that she received full compensation to reflect all of her losses. As […]

Compensation for worker injured by faulty table saw

This client suffered an injury to his hand whilst working, due to a defective guard on his table saw machine. Instead of protecting my client from coming into contact with the blade, the guard failed and caused his hand to be cut badly by the blade. A claim for damages was submitted to the employer and liability was […]