Case studies

• Compensation secured for an employee mechanic following serious head injury
  We successfully recovered substantial damages for an employee mechanic who sustained a serious head injury following an accident at work.
• Settlement of £105,000 for emergency breakdown service call handler
  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.
• A good return for tennis court injury
  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.
• Claim for brain-injured road accident victim against garage which repaired her car
  Our client was involved in a head-on collision in which she sustained a very severe traumatic brain injury and spent several months in a coma.
• Settlement of head injury claim for pedestrian hit by a car
  We recovered substantial damages for a client who suffered a head injury when hit by a car.
• £9,000 claim settlement for yoga student following negligent instruction
  Penningtons personal injury team recently recovered damages in the sum of £9,000 for a young female client who sustained a back injury as a result of negligent instruction by a teacher in a yoga class.
• Two daughters injured by driver while cycling with their father
  We were able to secure more than £40,000 in damages for two girls injured after a driver lost control of her vehicle on a country lane and collided with them as they cycled with their father.
• Representing bereaved fiancée of hit and run victim
  Our team recently settled a claim for Elizabeth Boyd in relation to the loss of her fiancé, Trevor Bird, who was killed in November 2008 by a hit and run driver who fled the scene.
• Serious fall from roof wins damages from both employer and corporate occupier
  Our specialist personal injury lawyers recently concluded a complex claim against two defendants, an employer and occupier, as a result of our client sustaining serious injury following a fall from a roof upon which he was working.
• Student wins compensation from landlord for injuries caused by broken window
  We have recently agreed damages on behalf of a young student resident against his landlord following a significant laceration to his wrist resulting from the unsafe state of a broken window.
• Settlement of more than £1.1 million for driver of car involved in fatal collision with skip lorry
  We settled a claim for over £1.1 million, plus legal costs, for our client who suffered catastrophic spinal injuries in a road traffic accident in July 2008.
• Substantial compensation for Alton Towers crash victim
  We have achieved a settlement for one of the victims injured in June 2015 on The Smiler attraction at Alton Towers.
• Motorcyclist injured in collision with van driver wins £50,000 in damages
  We successfully concluded a claim on behalf of a male motorcyclist who was injured after a van driver reversed into his path and collided with him as he was travelling along a main road.
• Compensation for recovery patrolman injured on motorway hard shoulder
  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.
• Settlement negotiated with employer for young tree surgeon trapped under falling tree
  We successfully brought a claim for a young woman in her twenties who was training to be a tree surgeon when she sustained a serious spinal cord injury from being trapped under a falling tree.

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