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Palace asbestos claimant awarded £200,000 damages - In May 2005 the widow of an asbestos victim who worked at Buckingham Palace during the 1980s was awarded nearly £200,000 in compensation at the High Court. The claim demonstrated the danger of gaining ...
(07/02/2006)

Pavement tripping - If you have tripped on a poorly maintained pavement, you are not automatically entitled to compensation.  The following matters have to be proved:• That there was a drop in level of at least.... • Or ...
(07/02/2006)

Pavement tripping fraud - There has been a spate of fraudulent claims related to pavement tripping cases. It is not unknown for a person who has sustained an injury in an entirely blame free accident situation to then go and find ...
(07/02/2006)

British Leyland Bathgate – mesothelioma scare - Thousands of employees working at the lorry factory in West Lothian that is now the centre of a cancer scare.Four former employees have been diagnosed with mesothelioma, the cancer linked to asbestos.  ...
(07/02/2006)

New law to provide regular payments of compensation to seriously injured claimants - A new law which came into being in April 2005 requires that insurance companies should pay regular payments of compensation to seriously injured victims over the whole of their lifetime.  Up until ...
(07/02/2006)

Brain Injury - Barton v Dooley 26 January 2004 The claimant, who was only 26, sustained a moderately severe brain injury as a result of a road accident. He was able to return to work as a forklift truck driver, ...
(21/01/2006)

Obstetric Claim - DF v St George's Healthcare NHS Trust High Court 24/6/2005An obstetric senior registrar performed an instrumental delivery during the birth of a child in circumstances and at a time when expert evidence ...
(21/01/2006)

Brain Injury - Wooldridge v Hayes and Vulcan Motors Limited High Court 10 June 2003 Mrs Wooldridge was a front seat passenger in a car which was struck by a wheel which had become detached from another vehicle. ...
(18/01/2006)

Caesarean Section - Smith v Sheridan High Court 14/04/2005A consultant obstetrician used execessive force when using forceps to deliver a baby during a caesarean section. This caused bleeding and damage to the baby's brain. ...
(18/01/2006)

Overturned Dumper Truck - In August 2005 an employee of a construction company succeeded in bringing a claim against his employer. The employer had left a drop on either side of a ramp so that the employee’s dumper truck had overturned. ...
(18/01/2006)

Deafness -  An employer failed to take precautions to provide ear protection to an employee regularly exposed to 85 decibels of noise between 1974 and 1999. The Court of Appeal held that the employer had been ...
(13/01/2006)

Child Accident -  The claimant, who was aged 12 at the time of the accident, was knocked over by a car when he was crossing the road. He suffered a number of injuries including a skull fracture. The head injury in ...
(03/01/2006)

Moterbike Accident - The Claimant was riding a motorbike which collided with a car. He suffered brain injury and psychological symptoms including post traumatic stress disorder and agoraphobia. He brought a claim against ...
(03/01/2006)

Psychiatric Injury - This case, which was decided by the House of Lords in April 2004, is extremely important in the context of claims for compensation for psychiatric injury. Mr Simmons worked as a burner for British ...
(12/12/2005)

Pleural Plaques update - Many thousands of workers exposed to asbestos during the course of their employment who had gone on to suffer from pleural plaques, a condition affecting the lining of the lungs, have lost their right ...
(07/10/2005)



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