by Russell Worth | Mar 4, 2014 | News, Personal Injury
Former WWE wrestler and American footballer, Chris Nowinski, has said young people in the UK need to be taught more about head injuries. Nowinski, who was forced to retire from WWE in 2007 after he was kicked in the head during a match and suffered post-concussion...
by Russell Worth | Feb 21, 2014 | News, Personal Injury
A dispute between four local authorities over which of them must fund the lifelong care of a severely disabled young man has yielded authoritative guidance from the Court of Appeal on the vexed issue of exactly what constitutes a person’s ‘ordinary residence’....
by Russell Worth | Feb 17, 2014 | Accident Claims, News, Personal Injury
In a case which succinctly encapsulated the current state of the law on the vicarious liability of employers, an innocent customer received serious head injuries after he was savagely attacked by a petrol kiosk attendant on a supermarket forecourt has received the...
by Russell Worth | Feb 14, 2014 | News, Personal Injury
A tree surgeon who was terribly injured in a 50-foot fall from a dying conker tree has received a judge’s ‘enormous sympathy’ – but has failed in a multi-million-pound compensation claim against the National Trust. The young man was left permanently confined to...
by Russell Worth | Dec 12, 2013 | Accident Claims, Industrial Disease, News, Personal Injury
A construction company in Sussex has been fined £45,000 after one of its employees developed bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome. Andrew Wood was working for C J Gowing and Son Ltd. when he began to develop the painful condition which resulted from prolonged and...
by Russell Worth | Dec 11, 2013 | Accident Claims, News, Personal Injury
A gas fitter has been sentenced to six months in prison after a elderly gentleman sustained severe burns at his home in Manchester. Peter Smith was in a coma for three months following the explosion in 2011 and suffered 58% burns to his skin. The incident took place...
