So you are the cruel victim of what may seem like a terrible slapstick joke – you’ve tripped over and you’ve injured yourself, and whilst your dignity may heal in a matter of hours, your physical injuries may not be so easy to get rid of. Tripping and landing hard on the ground can cause some serious injuries like fractures, ligament tears and ruptures from stretching and twisting, and back injuries from twisting or being thrown to the ground violently.

So if you have tripped over and you want to make a claim, how do you go about it? If you tripped because of someone else’s negligence, you may be able to make a successful personal injury claim. For example, if you tripped due to a pothole or defect in the street, or tripped over an unattended box in a supermarket, or tripped over a loose cable in the office – if you think someone is at fault, we can tell you if we think you can claim.
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Dislocating your shoulder can be serious and painful. If you are reading this having recently suffered from a dislocated shoulder, I assume I’m preaching to the choir; unless you’re Chris Ryan. If the injury was caused through someone else’s negligence, you may be able to make a claim for personal injury compensation.

So what can you do, and how can our expert injury team here at the injury lawyers help you?

Well we are an expert injury law firm so we will fight tooth and nail to get you the highest payout possible. Injuries for dislocated shoulders can be as high as £13,700 according to official guidelines.  These sorts of injuries can be painful, debilitating, and require a lengthy period of rehabilitation.

So let’s look at what our service can do for you:
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The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 exist to put a duty on employers to look after the health and safety of their employees; with the ultimate goal being to avoid injuries at work. One of the most commonly applicable regulations is that of the above, as this places the duty on your employer to make sure that all traffic routes in the workplace are safe to navigate.

Regulation 12.—(1) states that “Every floor in a workplace and the surface of every traffic route in a workplace shall be of a construction such that the floor or surface of the traffic route is suitable for the purpose for which it is used.”  Stairs at work fall within the category of traffic routes – and given that falling down a set of stairs can cause serious injury as you may be falling from a height, the regulations are even more important to abide by.

Slips on Stairs

A slip will normally be caused due to a spillage of some nature, or perhaps a leak, or perhaps from a colleague or hired cleaner mopping the stairs. For your employer to abide by the regulations above, slipping hazards need to be prevented as much as possible – so when it comes to spillages, a system of inspection and maintenance should be used to identify any hazards and rectify them immediately. If your employer fails to have such a system, they may be liable for compensation.
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Here’s a little advice about the ins and outs of a rear end shunt claim for compensation.

Generally speaking, you have a very strong claim for compensation if you are hit in the back by another driver. Being hit in the back indicates that the other driver failed to stop in time, which means they failed to react in enough time and were possibly driving too fast or not keeping a safe enough distance.

So if you are injured because someone went in to the back of you, you pretty much have a guaranteed claim for compensation. There is very rarely a good defence that the other driver could raise in these circumstances. Unless you slammed the brakes on because you are fraudulently trying to make a claim, or unless you slammed on to avoid hitting anything smaller than an average sized dog (except for a child) like a squirrel, there isn’t much of a defence they could raise.
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We have done a lot of articles on pothole claims over the years, and we have represented countless victims for claims against the council after tripping and falling due to potholes on the highway. These claims are inherently difficult to win. The reason for this is that those responsible for an area of land have a special defence under Section 58 of the Highways Act, which is:

 (1)In an action against a highway authority in respect of damage resulting from their failure to maintain a highway maintainable at the public expense it is a defence (without prejudice to any other defence or the application of the law relating to contributory negligence) to prove that the authority had taken such care as in all the circumstances was reasonably required to secure that the part of the highway to which the action relates was not dangerous for traffic.
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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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Lifts are one of the common phobias that people have. Some people don’t think twice before entering a lift but other people do have a genuine fear of them. While in the most part lifts have proved to be safe and necessary, they have also been the cause of accidents resulting in serious injury and even death. I would argue that lifts are perfectly safe providing they are regularly checked and maintained by suitably qualified and experienced engineers. A simple internet search will give you examples of injury and death caused by lift accidents.

We all probably accept that lifts are necessary, especially for disabled persons or people with a trolley or pram. However I do think they fuel laziness in some people. Personally I would always choose to walk up a flight of stairs unless I had a pram with me. However I can understand using a lift if you are required to go up multiple flights of stairs, in a hospital for example. I don’t agree with taking the lift purely out of laziness but that is just me. I feel that lifts should only be used by people who need to use them.
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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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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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