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Can I Claim Burn Injury Compensation
Published on 03/03/2014
‘Burn’ and ‘accident’ are two words that unhappily occur together more often than anybody would wish. Suffering a burn, even a superficial one, is a genuinely unpleasant experience and it will usually only occur by accident. The trauma associated with suffering 3rd Degree, or what nowadays are more commonly referred to as ‘full thickness’ burns… View Article
How to Claim Pedestrian Accident Compensation
Published on 28/02/2014
For at least the last five years the Department for Transport’s statistics regarding road accidents to pedestrians in the United Kingdom have remained stubbornly at around the level of 30,000 accidents annually. This is of course 30,000 more accidents a year than anybody would want to see on our roads. Some would argue that such… View Article
Can I claim compensation for the effects of noise induced hearing loss at work?
Published on 24/02/2014
Employers have to provide a safe workplace and look after their employees’ health, safety and welfare whilst they are at work. That includes not subjecting employees to noise levels sufficiently high or prolonged to damage their hearing. There is even a specific regulation covering noise at work; The Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005…. View Article
Higher than Expected Death Rates At Hemel Hempstead and other West Herts Hospitals
Published on 21/02/2014
A major research report compiled by medical statistics company Dr Foster, has revealed that 16 of England’s NHS Trusts have death rates higher than would be expected for patients in their hospitals. Some others are rated badly on other issues which may contribute to raising the patient death rate. One of the poorly rated Hospital… View Article
The consequences of scaffolding injuries
Published on 25/01/2014
Today, in the United Kingdom, five workers in the construction sector will fall from height, mostly from scaffolding, some from ladders and others from a variety of high places. They will all usually be injured. Some horribly, in life changing ways; some less severely and some will never go home to their families again. That… View Article