Personal Injury Solicitors - Claim accident compensation
Sadly accidents, injuries or illnesses can affect us at any time and in any place;
so if you have suffered an accident at work, home on the road, or in this country (UK) or abroad our personal injury compensation team can help you. Simpson Millar LLP Solicitors provide swift,
expert help and individual legal advice from personal injury lawyers
who are experienced in dealing with compensation claims leaving you to concentrate
on recovery and rehabilitation.
Our personal injury solicitors have the expertise to make the difference between
winning or losing a personal injury compensation case and maximising the amount
of damages recovered. Our personal service is tailored to every case and even extends
to providing independent financial advice in respect of damages that could be recovered.
Our personal injury solicitors are accredited members of the Law Society's Personal
Injury Panel.
Our client, made a personal injury compensation claim against Royal Mail after she was struck by a hypodermic needle whilst carrying
out her job sorting mail. She suffered a phobic reaction to needles and anything
associated with Royal Mail. She lost her job although was fortunate to gain a part
time job. She was paid £60,000 by her employers' insurers who had failed to provide
her with a safe system of work and suitable protective equipment to ensure that
any risk associated with hypodermic needles was reduced to the lowest level.
If you have been involved in a serious accident and have catastrophic personal injuries eg
brain/head
injuries, spinal cord damage, paralysis, amputation, severe burns and multiple fractures
then our catastrophic
injury claims team can help you.
You may not be aware that workplace
stress is a form of personal injury and our specialist team of solicitors
can help you with this area of law.
What do I need to prove? Can I claim
personal injury compensation?
To obtain personal injury compensation you must be able to show that somebody
else was at fault for the injuries or disease you have suffered. Although in some
cases the fault would be obvious, eg being hit by a speeding car running a red light,
others may be less so. You could have been injured in your work place or in your
own home and fault may be less obvious but you could still be able to claim and
luckily, for our clients, our
personal injury solicitors' expertise means we will do all we can to offer
sound practical legal advice to achieve the best result and in the minimum amount
of time.
Our postman client made a personal injury compensaton claim after injuring his shoulder when pulling a loaded pump truck across
the rear tail lift of an articulated lorry. His employers, Royal Mail, denied all
liability for the accident and the case proceeded to a full hearing at the Mayors
and City of London Court. It was our client’s case that there was a gap between
the rear body of the lorry and the tail lift and the wheels of the pump truck became
caught in this gap. Consequently, our client hurt his shoulder as he exerted extra
force to get the pump truck into the back of the lorry.
Royal Mail defended the claim on the grounds that the manual handling task involved
did not create a foreseeable risk of injury. Moreover, they heavily relied on the
fact that, to their knowledge, no other employee had previously suffered injury
when carrying out this task. The Judge accepted our submissions that the lifting
operation involved applying a force of 27 KGs which exceeded the HSE recommended
maximum figure of 20 KGs. Our client therefore succeeded in establishing a breach
of regulation 4 of the Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992. The judge also
found that Royal Mail had breached its common law duty to provide and maintain a
safe and suitable system of work. Our client won his case and was awarded damages
of £45,000.
Personal Injury Compensation Experts
Contact our team of personal injury solicitors to discuss claiming
compensation for your accident now by using the
online enquiry form and we will call you back or you can call us direct
on 0844 858 3200.
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