If you have been injured by a farmer’s animal, you may be entitled to compensation. Whilst the majority of farm animal attack victims are farmworkers themselves, farm animals – most notably cows – have been known to attack members of the public on occasion, with dog walkers reportedly at greatest ...
If you have been injured after slipping on ice, you may be entitled to compensation if you can prove someone else was to blame. Ice carries an inherent risk of injury from a slip, trip or fall. To succeed in a personal injury claim for an accident involving ice, you ...
If you have been injured in a road traffic accident caused by faulty traffic lights through no fault of your own, you may be entitled to compensation. There are two common situations in which road traffic accidents occur at road junctions or other stretches of road governed by faulty traffic ...
If you have fallen from a ladder at work and your employer was fully or even partly to blame, there’s a good chance you are entitled to claim compensation. Employers are legally obliged to keep you safe at work, including taking all reasonable precautions against you having an accident. Working ...
If you’ve been injured in an accident caused by a poorly maintained pavement, you may be entitled to compensation from the Local Authority. Most pavement accidents fall under the category of ‘slip, trip and falls’ and result from issues such as broken paving slabs, potholes, and missing maintenance hole covers. ...
If you have been injured in a car accident that wasn’t your fault, you are usually entitled to compensation, whether the other driver is insured or not. If the other driver is uninsured, the Motor Insurer’s Bureau (MIB) will step in and act as their insurance company. (You still need ...
Anyone road user injured in an accident that was not their fault may be entitled to claim compensation, as long as it can be proved that another person or organisation was to blame. This includes victims of accidents caused by mud on the road if the mud was there due ...
If you have been electrocuted in an accident at work and your employer was to blame, you may be entitled to compensation. Workers regularly exposed to electricity, such as electricians and lighting technicians, stand a higher chance of sustaining a workplace injury from electric shocks and electrocution. Still, virtually all ...
If you have been involved in a car accident as a passenger and wish to make a personal injury claim for your resultant injuries, your legal position is usually a strong one. As a passenger, you can rarely be held responsible for the accident and are often entitled to recover ...
You might think that if you have an accident in your own home and get injured as a result that your chances of claiming compensation are slim at best. In most cases, you’d probably be right. However, there are several situations in which an accident at home may not be ...
