by Russell Worth | Mar 19, 2015 | Accident Claims, Claims, Head Injuries, News, Personal Injury, Spinal Injury Compensation
A patient who went into an accident and emergency department to be treated for concussion following an assault, but ended up toppling 30 feet off a wall in the hospital grounds has launched a claim for more than £1 million in compensation. The tragic chain of events...
by Russell Worth | Mar 19, 2015 | Accident at Work, Back Injury, Claims, News |
An ecology consultancy has appeared in court after a worker broke her back when she fell at a former hospital site in Essex. The woman, a 34-year-old ecologist who has asked to remain anonymous, was surveying one of the derelict buildings for wildlife when the...
by Russell Worth | Mar 17, 2015 | Claims, Industrial Disease, mesothelioma, News |
A Hampshire man exposed to asbestos through his work on warships has died from mesothelioma, an inquest has heard. 74-year-old David Barclay from Stubbington died in February at a local hospice. The inquest heard that Mr Barclay had contracted mesothelioma after being...
by Russell Worth | Mar 16, 2015 | Accident at Work, Claims, News
A waste management company in Northampton must pay £265,000 after one of its workers was killed when he was hit by a vehicle at a waste transfer station in Watford. Father-of-two Patrick Murphy, from Watford was struck and then run over by a JCB loading shovel as he...
by Russell Worth | Mar 16, 2015 | Claims, News, Personal Injury
A road traffic accident claim brought by a pedestrian who suffered “significant injuries” after being hit by a bus has been dismissed in court. The pedestrian suffered a number of injuries as a result of the collision, including a head injury but the court ruled that...
by Russell Worth | Mar 13, 2015 | Accident at Work, Claims, News
An engineering firm in Kent has been fined after a young employee was left disabled when a metal sheet fell on his feet, severing three toes from one foot and breaking all toes on the other. 20-year-old Anton Hunter, an engineer with G&P Machine Shop Ltd in...