Suffering a fall outside can be a nasty experience, on most occasions we get lucky and escape with a grazed knee and a slight feeling of embarrassment. However, there are times when loosing your footing can lead to severe injury such as a broken bone or extremely bad head wound. It is even worse news when you realise that your severe injury and fall was due to the negligence of others.
Poor Roads Cause Road Traffic Accidents
When you hear of a road traffic accident you automatically think of a vehicle collision. Poor driving skills are a major factor in most road traffic accidents but there are other factors that also can cause injury, and not just to car drivers but motorbike riders, cyclists and pedestrians. Poor road surfaces and maintenance!
Reporting An Injury Or Accident At Work
If you are the employer, or have an authority role at work and are in charge of a certain area or are even self-employed, you have a legal duty to make sure that any accident or injury within the workplace is reported or recorded by the quickest means possible.
Not all accidents / injuries are required to be reported, some can be simply recorded in an accident book, such as minor incidents where a person suffered a small cut or graze. If treatment was given then it is best to record the details of the person who suffered the accident, the circumstances in which the injury was received and if any treatment or first aid was necessary.
Do you really get something for free? Is there not always a catch or a hidden cost thinly veiled behind a free offer? In the majority of cases it is always best to be careful of those ‘too-good-to-true-deals’, but when it comes to 100% Compensation Claims I’d say, ‘Do your homework!’ For those of you who may not be sure what 100% Compensation Claims are, I’ll try and get you up-to-speed quickly.
Top 5 Reasons To Hire A Professional Injury Lawyer
Lady Luck can sometimes deal us a bad hand and occasionally, we can find ourselves at the wrong end of an accident, suffering an injury, through no fault of our own. In these types of events there are laws in place to help a person claim compensation for their injury and also to make sure that a similar accident does not happen again to someone else.
A professional injury lawyer / solicitor is the best person to contact if you have been unfortunate enough to have been injured from an accident that was not entirely your fault. Why choose a professional injury lawyer to oversee your compensation claim. We’ll here are 5 reasons you should really consider before you try an alternative way to claim your compensation.
It’s difficult to think that anyone could really suffer a serious injury working in an office environment. I mean it’s not like a building site or even a factory shop floor yet a high number of office workers suffer injury that can keep them out of employment for months on end. One of the most common injuries suffered by office workers is repetitive strain injury estimated to cost British businesses around £300million a year in lost working hours.
With the rising fuel prices in this country we have witnessed more people take cheaper, alternative ways to travel into work and one of those rising popular methods of transport is the bicycle. However, cyclists, run a risk of accidents on the road. Many bicycle accident claims involve cyclists being accidentally hit by motorists or suffering an injury through poor road surfaces.
Defective products come in many forms such as high heel shoes that snap and break your ankle or a top breaks apart and injures a child to the brakes in a car failing and causing a traffic accident leaving the driver with whiplash. In these instances of a product being defective and causing an injury to a person there is a good chance that a compensation claim will be awarded.
Driving Home The Message of Road Accident Claims
At The Injury Lawyers we cannot stress enough to people looking to make a car accident claim, where they have suffered an injury through no fault of their own, of the importance in collecting information from the scene of the accident. Especially when you consider that insurance companies are becoming increasingly tough on claims that are not set-out properly to the extent where they will reduce the payment to the claimant or even quash the claim completely.
How to make a Vibration White Finger compensation claim
Vibration White Finger is a work injury suffered by those who use vibrating machinery such as drills, chain saws or hand guided power tools. Miners, road and forestry workers are the main areas where Vibration White Finger injury is most common. However, anyone who works with heavy vibrating equipment for prolonged times especially in a cold climate are also likely to suffer from this work injury.
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