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Burns can be as annoying as they are painful. It can often take a long time for the pain of a burn to stop. On top of that, you may end up with some unsightly scarring which could last weeks, months, or even years. If you don’t know something is hot, people often have a delayed reaction which serves only to cause the burn to be worse due to prolonged contact.

So what are you rights when it comes to making a claim for personal injury compensation if you are suddenly burned by something when you are out an about? Perhaps in a shop, or a supermarket?
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Building sites are subject to a large amount of health and safety rules and regulation. They are inherently dangerous places and the employees working on a site need to go to great lengths to ensure they are not injured on a site. You’ve probably seen “Hard hats must be worn” signs and “Do Not Enter” warnings on the entrances of sites.

But what happens if you are not working on a building site but walking past it and you end up injured? Can you make a claim for compensation?
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There are many ways you can be injured by a broken or defective door in the workplace. It could suddenly jam mid operation, causing a jarring injury to your back or limbs. It could break off and hit you. It could slam shut and hit you or trap a part of your body if a slow release mechanism fails.

But what are your rights when it comes to making a claim for personal injury compensation if you are injured due to a defective or broken door in the workplace?
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Slipping on stairs can result in some fairly devastating injuries; particularly if you end up falling down a full flight of steps. Fractures, back injuries, head injuries; you could end up with a lot of time in bed and a lot of time off work.

So what are your rights when it comes to slipping on wet stairs in your workplace? Is your employer liable?

The Law

The applicable regulations are The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992. There is a specific section dedicated to the condition of floors which reads as follows:
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Working at height is inherently dangerous; that’s why there are specific regulations that address the issue of working at height, and it is important that both employers and employees abide by them. When it comes to equipment, the duty is on your employer to ensure that equipment is provided, where necessary, to prevent you being injured.

So let’s take a look at some of the key regulations about work equipment when working at height is concerned:

(3) Where work is carried out at height, every employer shall take suitable and sufficient measures to prevent, so far as is reasonably practicable, any person falling a distance liable to cause personal injury.
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It’s one of the ultimate embarrassing situations to be in – you sit down on a chair and it gives way under your weight, causing you to fall down with it to the ground. Whether it’s at work or in a public place, it not a nice situation to be in.

So if you are the unfortunate victim of an accident where your chair has given way and injured you as a result, can you make a claim for personal injury compensation?
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It’s unusual, but it’s has happened before – slipping on wet paint can be as embarrassing as it is painful. Normally you’d expect an area with wet paint on the ground, whether it’s dripped, spilt, or whether the actual ground has been painted, would be cordoned off with signs. But if it isn’t, you may have a claim for personal injury compensation.

Your Rights

Your rights when it comes to making a claim are similar to that of any other general slip or trip. For a supermarket or a shop or another public place, the Occupiers Liability Act normally applies. In the workplace, it’s The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 that normally apply.
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Many people will be asked to do all sorts of “ad-hoc” tasks buy their employer. This could include going up in to loft spaces in an office, or perhaps in an area being renovated. As daft as it may sound to some people, if a person is not aware that the floor they are stepping on is not a proper floor – i.e. it’s perhaps a suspended / false ceiling – stepping on it could be disastrous.

So what happens if you are asked to negotiate somewhere and you are not aware that the floor you are stepping on is just a ceiling with little or no support? What happens if you then fall through it and you are injured as a result?
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April 2013 – the dawn of a dark era for personal injury claiming when our wonderful government decided that people should pay to claim. They decided that the victim should suffer and have to lose some of their compensation. Why? Well, we have no idea. But the rules have changed.

To be brief, the rule change means lawyers cannot recover all of their legal fees from the other side like we used to be able to. As such, law firms are now taking a deduction of up to 25% from your payout, and they are asking for payment of insurance as well.
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You have been in a car accident and you have suffered a whiplash injury as a result. The key questions most people will ask are:

• How long will you suffer for and how bad will it get?
• Can you make a claim for compensation?
• How much could your claim be worth?

About Whiplash

For how long and how bad the injury will be, it can be hard to say. Whiplash is normally more complicated than most people think and some people could only suffer for a few weeks, whereas others could end up in pain for months or even years. Where on the scale you may be could be dependent on the nature of the accident, whether you have any pre existing conditions, or it can be entirely random!
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