Injured football fan compensated for Club’s failure to use safety netting

In one of my more unusual cases, compensation was recovered for a client who had been injured whilst watching the pre-match shooting practice at a professional football club’s stadium. A player’s shot narrowly missed the goal and travelled at speed towards my client who was injured when he raised his hand to deflect the ball […]

Over £100,000 for worker injured by falling work equipment

My client had been assisting at work with the loading of a HGV trailer. The trailer had been fully packed with goods, so much so that the rear doors could not be easily closed. Another worker decided to put a hay bale on the forks of his forklift truck and then push the bale against […]

The fight for fair compensation gets even harder

In 2013, the government introduced a raft of reforms designed to reduce the number and cost of personal injury claims being made. As part of those reforms, successful claimants became unable to recover their full legal costs. In addition, the amount of legal costs payable by the defendant’s insurer in most cases became fixed. This […]

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 […]