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Fall From Height Injury Claims at Work
As with most things that can pose a danger to your health, there are specific regulations for people who have to work at height. These regulations are there for your employer to make sure that any activities you are instructed to undertake that involve working at height do not pose a danger to you.
The applicable regulation is The Work at Height Regulations 2005. To cite some of the important sections of the regulations:
Organisation and Planning
4.—(1) Every employer shall ensure that work at height is—
(a)properly planned;
(b)appropriately supervised; and
(c)carried out in a manner which is so far as is reasonably practicable safe, and that its planning includes the selection of work equipment in accordance with regulation 7.
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Twisting Back Injuries at Work
Many jobs, particularly those involving a great deal of manual handling, put people at risk of sustaining a twisting back injury. It doesn’t take much to twist whilst carrying a box to injure your back. Whether you pull some ligaments or dislocate a disc in your back, the pain can be agonising and severely debilitating.
If your job involves manual handling, there is an important duty on your employer to prove you with manual handling training and instruction. The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 state the following:
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Motorcyclist hit at a junction – Injury Lawyers advice
Accidents involving a driver pulling out a junction from a minor road on to a major road are extremely common. The right of way is on the motorist proceedings on the major road. The driver emerging from a side road must give precedence to anyone on the road they are trying to merge on to.
These accidents are very common for motorcyclists. It’s a lot easier to spot a vehicle on a major road, whereas it may not be so easy to spot a motorcyclist who is much, much smaller in size. Although the majority of motorcyclists wear reflective clothing and have Modulating Headlights which catch the eye of drivers as the flash, some drivers still fail to look out properly for motorcyclists.
The sorts of injuries motorcyclists generally receive can be fairly serious. Hitting a vehicle emerging from a side road will likely cause you to be thrown from your bike with a large amount of force. We represent a lot of motorcycle accident victims here because we specialise in these sorts of personal injury cases. Broken bones and head injuries are very common, and very worrying.
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If you have had an accident through no fault of your own, getting treatment on the NHS might involve a lengthy wait. That’s why we can offer treatment right from the start of your claim if we take the case on.
As long as our medical partners are happy to fund the treatment on the basis that we think you have reasonable prospects of success for the case, we can arrange for private funding for private care right from the start of your case to help you recover at a much quicker rate. The treatment can start shortly after you instruct us – so you get it when you need it the most.
If the claim is successful we can recover the fees from the other side. Insurers are not just liable to compensate you for your injuries, they are also liable to help you to recover as quickly as possible as well. For this reason, we can charge treatment to them.
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Personally, I would like to lean you towards the idea that we are the best injury lawyers out there. We are THE Injury Lawyers – a firm of specialist personal injury compensation lawyers. We are a real law firm, and we only deal with injury claims – so we are the specialists in our field.
So if you are shopping around, here are a few reasons why you may want to make your claim with us! If you speak with other firms, make sure you see how they compare to our enviable high levels of service:
Real Specialist Lawyers
As I said earlier, we are a real law firm – not some claims management company or accident advice service that is going to palm you off on any old lawyer and charge you for it. We have been dealing with injury claims for years so we have developed a specialist and bespoke service that is tailored to your injury claim needs.
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No Win No Fee Solicitors Reviews
There are thousands of law firms in the UK alone that deal with personal injury claims. There are probably hundreds of firms who specialise and deal only with compensation cases. At the same time, there are thousands of accident management companies and claims management companies who people often mistake for law firms who will sell your claim to a lawyer.
So with all those companies out there, who on Earth do you choose to represent you for your personal injury compensation claim?
First advice, make sure you go to a law firm direct. If you go to a claims company, you may end up with extra charges. You are better off, in my opinion, finding a law firm and speaking to them directly for advice and representation.
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Concertina Collision! Who is at fault?
A concertina collision is a collision commonly involving three or more vehicles in which one vehicle shunts in to another with such a force that the same vehicle is in turn forced into the one in front. It isn’t a scenario where Car 1 hits Car 2, and then Car 2 Hits Car 3 – it’s a collision where the force of being hit in the rear causes a vehicle to be pushed in to one in front.
Therefore, generally speaking, if you are the front or middle vehicle, you shouldn’t be at fault. As the middle vehicle, if you are stationary and you are hit in the rear and in turn pushed in to a car in front, you are not at fault. Your stationary vehicle has been pushed in to another – the driver that hit you is liable for damages for both you and the vehicle you have been forced in to.
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Slipping Accident in Public Toilet – Injury Lawyers Advice
If you go to a public place like a supermarket or a bar, restaurant, or a shop, the occupiers of the premises have an important duty under the Occupiers Liability Act to take all reasonable steps to look after your health and safety as a visitor to their premises. When it comes to slipping hazards, this is generally achieved by having a system of inspection and maintenance which aims to reduce the risk of someone slipping on a wet floor hazard.
Claims under the Occupiers Liability Act are inherently difficult to win because most places nowadays do uphold their duty to take all reasonable steps. As I said earlier, a system of inspection and maintenance can be classed as taking reasonable steps.
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Car Accident Claims in the Wet Weather
Just this week I wrote about almost being in an accident when a driver cut me up on the exit of a roundabout. Last night the same sort of thing happened – but more to do with the wet weather. So I thought I’d do a quick blog about compensation claims and wet weather.
All drivers ought to know that extra care needs to be taken during periods of wet weather. The road surface is slippery and water may have accumulated in puddles or fords which pose a serious risk of skidding or aquaplaning, losing control, and crashing. A driver cannot really use the excuse that of ‘the weather’ to defend a claim – if a driver fails to stop due to skidding or losing control of the vehicle in wet weather and hits you, they are still at fault.
Last night a driver decided to cut me up and change lanes in front of me to avoid a ford that had accumulated in the road in his lane – he obviously didn’t realise that, firstly, I was there, and secondly, the water was in my lane anyway! So when I had to almost slam my brakes on and completely lost all vision as his car kicked up a tidal wave that covered my entire windscreen reducing my vision to literally nothing (it was like being in a car wash), I think avoidance of a collision was left to fate.
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How much are you entitled to claim for if you sustain injury to your knee? Well it all depends on the nature and severity of the injury. When it comes to knees, they can range from a simple twist and strain that leaves you uncomfortable and limping for a few weeks, to ligament ruptures requiring surgical reconstruction and a permanent weakness. It really all does come down to the nature of the injury.
The only way to properly value a knee injury compensation claim is to instruct an expert lawyer and see a suitable expert for a medico-legal appointment. A report from the appointment will then be used by the lawyers to value the injury.
But in the meantime, here is a little guidance based on the official guidelines that are used to value knee injury claims:
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