Supermarket Shopping Accident Compensation Claims

Have you ever questioned whether you are eligible to submit a claim after suffering an injury at a supermarket? Perhaps you have slipped on liquid coming from a broken fridge or freezer after no wet floor sign was displayed? Or slipped on fruit left in an aisle? Supermarket injuries can leave you at a physical and financial disadvantage. If you have been the victim of a serious injury and cannot go to work for a long period of time your suffering may extend financially resulting in a potential loss of earnings and a lot of hardship.
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How do the Recent Changes in Personal Injury Law Affect My Case?

Recent changes in the law regulating the way in which personal injury claims are run have resulted in the introduction of a new protocol. Claims occurring after the 31^st of July 2013 for employers and public liability claims valued between £1,000 and £25,000 are now dealt with via a new online portal system. The idea of the online portal system is to make your claim process easier, faster and more efficient, than claims previously run under the pre-action protocol.

It is similar to the one already used for road accidents since April 2010.
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Claim for Back Injury from Digging – Injury Lawyers Advice

Digging holes and trenches is of course required in many jobs. It’s common in constructions sites for foundations to be laid, walls and fences to be erected, and pipes or cables to be laid in the ground.

Digging itself can involve some hefty manual work; particularly if the ground is fairly solid. It comes as no surprise then that people are liable to injure their back, arms, and / or shoulder areas when they are requested to dig.

So if you are instructed by your employer to dig and you end up injured, is there a duty and can you make a claim for compensation?
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Wall Accident Compensation Claims – Injury Lawyers Advice

Walls – as a principle, they’re there to protect us from danger. But if they are not safe, they can quickly become a danger. Common examples of accident claims involving walls could be as follows:

• A piece of a wall falls off and hits you / a wall collapses on you.
• A low wall you are sitting on collapses or breaks beneath you.
• A wall is dangerously low causing a trip and / or fall over it.
• A wall you are leaning on collapses or breaks, causing an accident.

So if any of the above happens to you, can you make a claim for personal injury compensation?
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Injured by a collapsing table? Injury Lawyers Advice

We have taken on plenty of claims for personal injury compensation when it comes to collapsing chairs; but equally a collapsing table can result in a person sustaining an injury. What if you are leaning on it and it collapses? You’re likely to go down with it. Even if it collapses in general it could hit you and cause an injury.

So if you are the unfortunate victim of a table collapsing injury, what are your rights when it comes to making a claim for personal injury compensation?
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Injured by a hot surface – Injury Lawyers Advice

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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Injured when walking past a building site? Advice from The Injury Lawyers

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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Injuries due to a chair that gave way – Injury Lawyers Advice

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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Slipped on Cardboard at Work – Advice from The Injury Lawyers

Working in a warehouse or manufacturing environment can often mean a lot of packaging is opened up and storage or work spaces can become cluttered and untidy. Cardboard is a primary culprit for causing slipping accidents; you step on a piece of it and you can easily end up slipping and falling down.

So what are your rights when it comes to making a work injury claim for slipping on cardboard in the workplace?
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Fallen on an unstable / broken ramp? Advice from The Injury Lawyers

Ramps, especially for the less able, are useful for access when steps are too much to negotiate. I like a good ramp as I have a leg condition that can limit my movements sometimes, and we all expect a ramp to be secure to ensure that we can safely use it.

But what if it isn’t secure? What if it moves when you step on it causing you to fall and inure yourself? Or what if it isn’t stable and wobbles and causes you to fall? What if it just breaks? If this happens to you, you may have a claim for personal injury compensation.

Your Rights

If the ramp wobbles or moves causing you to fall, and this is a ramp at a public place like to a shop for example, you may have a claim against whoever is in charge of the ramp. Under the Occupiers Liability Act they are duty bound to ensure that all reasonable steps are taken to make sure you are not injured on their premises.
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