Case studies

Our personal injury team has recently settled a claim for damages against an employer for a client who suffered a hand injury following a fall at work.

Our client was working as a waitress in a public house when she sustained injury to her foot. She had entered the stock room to retrieve some stock to replenish the bar when a large gas canister, used for pumps within the public house, suddenly and without warning fell towards her and landed on her left foot.

We recently concluded a complex claim against an employer and occupier, as a result of our client sustaining serious injury following a fall from a roof on which he was working.

We brought a claim for a young woman who was training to be a tree surgeon when she sustained a serious spinal cord injury from being trapped under a falling tree.

We assisted a male supermarket employee in recovering £20,000 in damages for injuries that he sustained at work. He slipped on a spillage left in situ and fell against a counter sustaining rib injuries.

We helped a female teaching assistant to recover £250,000 in damages for injuries sustained at work while helping in a PE lesson. The lesson took place on a disused tennis court which was made of a concrete-like material and had a very hard and slippery surface.

We recently settled a case out of court for an employee injured as a result of using a defective lift in the building where she worked. Our client tripped and fell on exiting the lift because it had failed to reach ground level. As a result of falling to the ground, our client sustained a fractured wrist.

Our client worked as an HGV driver for a haulage firm. Part of his job involved repetitive work opening and shunting large high-sided curtain HGV trailers many times a day.

Our personal injury team recently secured a sum of £32,500 for a recovery patrolman who was injured while attending a member breakdown on the hard shoulder of a motorway.

We successfully recovered £18,500 compensation for a recovery patrolman who suffered a soft tissue injury to his left little finger when attending and working on a broken down member’s vehicle.

We successfully recovered substantial damages for an employee mechanic who sustained a serious head injury following an accident at work. He had been asked by his employer to help move heavy metal hydraulic work equipment to new garage premises.

We recently settled a case out of court for a woman who suffered chronic hearing injuries as a result of using a defective headset supplied by her employer to use in her job as a home-based call handling operative for an emergency breakdown service.