Case studies

• 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.
• Pub waitress injured by falling gas canister
  Our client was working as a waitress in a public house when she sustained injury to her foot.
• Supermarket employee awarded £20,000 in damages for chest injuries
  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.
• Compensation for employee injured by defective lift
  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.
• Settlement reached for vulnerable adult who sustained injuries when a door closed on top of him
  Our client, who is a vulnerable adult with learning difficulties, was at work when a door closed on top of him, causing him to sustain a fractured hip.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Damages for recovery patrolman injured while fixing a vehicle
  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.
• Compensation for injuries sustained by driver through unsafe working practices
  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.
• 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 settled for injury suffered due to slippery floor in the workplace
  We settled a claim for an accident at work where our client sustained serious upper limb fractures due to a fall. Our client was walking across the entrance hall of her place of employment when she slipped and fell heavily on her arm.

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