A woman from the Swansea area is making a compensation claim worth £300,000 against a bus driver and the company he worked for, Briggs Coaches, after an accident on the bus he was driving left her suffering severe head injuries. Natasha Flockhart, 20, from the Hafod area of Swansea, fell through the open doors of a minibus in June 2008 … Read
An elderly woman is pursuing a compensation claim after she fell down the gap between the train and platform. Joyce Bell, from Edmonton, slipped through the gap at Edmonton Green Station during wintry conditions on January 20 2011. After failing to agree a compensation settlement with Network Rail the 82-year-old is now beginning court proceedings in a bid to claim … Read
The family of a girl from Cardiff who received legal aid to fight her medical negligence claim have expressed their concern about potential cuts to funding. Olivia Collis suffered brain injuries and received state support when fighting a medical negligence case against the Welsh Ambulance Service. The Welsh ambulance service have admitted partial liability in the case of eight year … Read
As Super Bowl Fever Mounts Ten Former Players Face A Fight To Claim Compensation Eleven days before the Super Bowl the attention of the American Football community will turn to a court room in Miami. A panel of judges will decide if at least ten individual and class-action lawsuits brought by former NFL players should be combined into one all-encompassing case. The … Read
Personal Injury Compensation: Milly Dowler Killer Attacked When people have suffered an accident and type ‘personal injury compensation’ into their search engine, they would not expect to hear stories about convicted murderers claiming compensation. Yet the story has emerged of how Levi Bellfield, Milly Dowler’s killer, has instructed his lawyers to seek compensation for personal injury caused during an attack by another … Read
Alternative Business Structures – What’s the Story for Injury Compensation Lawyers? With the Alternative Business Structures (ABS) coming into force on 6th October 2011 the Law Gazette has reported how injury compensation lawyers across the nation should be feeling ‘pessoptimistic’ –a neologism describing a state of contradiction, living with both dread and a sense of opportunity. The actual implementation of … Read
Family of Boy Left Severely Disabled in Hospital Win Compensation Personal Injury Claim When Leo Whiten’s Mum was in labour, little did she know that the medical care she was about to receive would come at the price of her son’s quality of life. Like most mothers, Samantha Newell from Tooting south-west London, was in an extremely vulnerable position placing all … Read
£200 Leg Injury Claim Won A teenager, who suffered an injury after being shot by an air rifle whilst camping with friends has won a £200 leg injury claim for the personal injuries sustained. The Sunderland Echo reports how the 17-year-old had been camping with his friends on a playing field site in Seaham when two camouflaged men approached them. One of … Read
Car Accident Claims: Accidents will happen No one wants to see accidents on the road, yet we will continue to see car accident claims made as a result of the negligence of drivers accidents that happen on Britain’s roads on an almost daily basis. Take a look at the news coming from Belfast over the weekend. The BBC reports how a double-decker … Read
Could Traffic Accident Claims Soon Become History? The science fiction future of modern cars could soon be a reality for the majority of us if Google’s robot car proves to be a success-and it could reduce traffic accident claims as a result. I Programmer reported last month how robot cars were now legal on the Nevada roads and how Google has … Read