by Russell Worth | May 22, 2013 | Accident Claims
There are over five thousand incidents involving transport in the workplace each year. According to the HSE about fifty of these accidents end in the death of an contractor, employee or member of the public. The biggest causes of injury are employees falling off...
by Russell Worth | May 22, 2013 | Accident Claims
A healthy baby has been left blind, deaf and locked inside his body after a trainee midwife did not recognise the early signs of jaundice.Vasilli Kalisperas, from Malvern, Worcestershire, was suffering from a condition called kernicterus, caused by bilirubin, a yellow...
by Russell Worth | May 21, 2013 | Accident Claims, News
According to the Health and Safety Executive a Staffordshire kitchen fitter continues to be fined following carrying out illegal gas work and placed families’ lives in danger of being poisoned by gas fumes. Stewart Pitt, 41, of Wombourne, Wolverhampton, was fitting...
by Russell Worth | May 21, 2013 | Accident at Work, Accident Claims, News
A County Durham man has been jailed along with a Tyneside firm and one of its directors fined following a demolition worker fell to his death from the cherry picker which was knocked over . Ken Joyce, of Lanchester, County Durham, was working for A&H Site Line...
by Russell Worth | May 20, 2013 | Accident Claims, Medical Negligence, News
In a unique settlement that makes clear that ‘secondary victims’ of negligence can also be compensated for their suffering, lawyers have secured a £150,000 pay-out for a widower who ‘drank himself into oblivion’ due to the trauma of witnessing his wife’s final...
by Russell Worth | May 20, 2013 | Accident Claims, News, Personal Injury
A woman whose holiday was ruined by a salmonella infection has won £22,000 in damages.Stacey Sewell, 32, was on an all inclusive package holiday with her family at a four star hotel in Gran Canaria when she contracted the bug. The symptoms can be severe and include...
