18th May 2009
Post traumatic stress is an often overlooked and potentially very serious side effect of being involved in an accident. It is only in the last 20 or so years that the condition has been classified and its implications for accident victims have been looke...
18th May 2009
Today I will be concluding the series of articles that began last week relating to arm injuries. This time we have moved on from the elbow, and the wrist, to the end of the arm – the hand.
The hand is the most complex part of the arm, containing 27 ...
18th May 2009
One of the questions accident solicitors get asked most often is “How much is my accident claim worth?” Many of our clients are understandably anxious to receive compensation to cover the costs of any treatments they might need after their accident, ...
18th May 2009
Arm injuries can affect our ability to live our lives in a very significant way, perhaps more so than injuries to the legs and feet. This is because we use our arms for communication and to allow us to manipulate objects around us. Quite simply, whilst ...
18th May 2009
All personal injury compensation claims are conducted according to a strict set of rules produced by the Civil Justice Council that are known as the civil procedure rules. In the last 10 years there have been numerous reforms that have tried to make the ...
12th May 2009
A massive compensation claims settlement has recently been paid out to a young boy who suffered life threatening spinal injuries after he was accidentally run over by his father. The boy, who was two-and-a-half years old at the time of the accident, was ...
12th May 2009
Birmingham City Centre could be seeing drastic changes to its streetscapes as a result of plans to remove traffic lights, kerbs, railings, speed limits and warning signs in order to cut accident rates. The idea for the so-called “naked streets” comes...
12th May 2009
With the UK currently going through one of the most severe economic downturns in recent times, there is understandably even greater pressure on company bosses to run their business as profitably as possible. However the pressures on businesses should not...
12th May 2009
An article published on Friday in the New Scotsman caught my eye online over the weekend with its headline “Council tripped up by £40k bill for school’s staff injury claims.” The piece mentioned that tens of thousands of pounds had been paid out i...
12th May 2009
An engineering firm from Gloucester has become the first company to be prosecuted under the new corporate manslaughter laws which are designed to hold companies criminally liable for failing to take care for a person’s safety. The firm, Cotswold Geotec...
12th May 2009
A case reported recently in the Law Society Gazette could have implications for short term and casual workers injured whilst at work. An unqualified worker building an extension to a house fell from a raised scaffold and suffered brain injuries that left...
12th May 2009
Tomorrow marks two years since the first United Nations Global Road Safety week held on 23-27 April 2007. The road safety week was called for by the United Nations to reflect the startling statistic that nearly 1.2 million people around the world are kil...
12th May 2009
The government has announced new plans to reduce speed limits in areas with high accident rates in a bid to cut road deaths. The plans will see a cut in speed limits from 30mph to 20mph in some urban areas and from 60mph to 50mph on rural roads. Cuts in...
12th May 2009
An interesting article from the United States caught my attention recently. Apparently there has been a spate of stadium lighting collapses in the state of Texas, with 6 of the massive lighting poles collapsing in the past sixth months. All of the defec...
29th April 2009
The government has announced new plans to reduce speed limits in areas with high accident rates in a bid to cut road deaths. The plans will see a cut in speed limits from 30mph to 20mph in some urban areas and from 60mph to 50mph on rural roads. Cuts in...
