{"id":11827,"date":"2013-02-08T12:28:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T11:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/?p=11827"},"modified":"2013-02-08T12:28:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T11:28:35","slug":"work-accident-compensation-vicarious-liability-colleagues-at-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2013\/02\/08\/work-accident-compensation-vicarious-liability-colleagues-at-fault\/","title":{"rendered":"Work Accident Compensation &#8211; Vicarious Liability Colleagues at Fault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11838\" alt=\"vicarious liability claims\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/work-accident-no-win-no-fee-claims-300x201.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/>Vicarious liability for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/accidents_at_work.php\">work accident compensation claim<\/a> essentially means that you have been injured due to the negligence of a colleague. If you are injured due to the negligence of a colleague, in UK law, your employer is vicariously can be found liable which means they have the duty (normally through their insurers) to compensate you. So for example : if your co-worker, let&#8217;s call him &#8220;Jim&#8221;, runs in to you whilst driving a forklift truck because he wasn\u2019t looking where he was going, fear not; you don\u2019t have to sue &#8220;Jim&#8221; personally! In this situation, the <strong>claim can be brought against your employer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Employers Liability Insurance covers vicarious liability claims<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Claims that fall within the realm of vicarious liability usually have pretty high success rates. Here are a few examples of cases where your employer can be vicariously liable (aside from the forklift one above):<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Your colleague:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hits you with a trolley or roll cage as they weren\u2019t looking where they were going.<\/li>\n<li>Drops something whilst up on some scaffolding which hits you on the head.<\/li>\n<li>Drops or poorly manoeuvres a heavy item that you are both handling; perhaps causing you to suddenly take the weight of it or being jerked down as the object falls to the ground under the weight.<\/li>\n<li>Leaves something in a walkway resulting in you tripping over it.<\/li>\n<li>Fails to properly cover a hole in the ground they have made or opened causing you to fall in to it.<\/li>\n<li>Trips up and ends up covering you in boiling water from a tub they were carrying.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Throws something across a stockroom whilst aiming for a box where the item should belong, but hits you in the crossfire.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The gist of a work accident vicarious liability claim comes down to whether there is negligence arising from a colleague\u2019s actions. Generally speaking we\u2019re talking accidents here; if your colleague takes a disliking to you and assaults you, this isn\u2019t something that is normally covered under vicarious liability. It\u2019s a little out of your employers control when it comes to someone deciding they are going to physically hurt you on purpose.<\/p>\n<p>As I touched on earlier, claims where we can prove vicarious liability are normally quite successful. The policy of insurance your employer must legally hold covers claims for vicarious liability; so you\u2019re covered, there is insurance there, and you have the right to claim from it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t miss out! Give us a call ASAP on our free claims helpline on 0800 634 75 75 to find out if you have a claim today!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vicarious liability for a work accident compensation claim essentially means that you have been injured due to the negligence of a colleague. If you are injured due to the negligence of a colleague, in UK law, your employer is vicariously can be found liable which means they have the duty (normally through their insurers) to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2013\/02\/08\/work-accident-compensation-vicarious-liability-colleagues-at-fault\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Work Accident Compensation &#8211; Vicarious Liability Colleagues at Fault<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work-injury-claims"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Work Accident Compensation - Vicarious Liability Colleagues at Fault<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2013\/02\/08\/work-accident-compensation-vicarious-liability-colleagues-at-fault\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Work Accident Compensation - Vicarious Liability Colleagues at Fault\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Vicarious liability for a work accident compensation claim essentially means that you have been injured due to the negligence of a colleague. 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