Pages On: Arm Injury
An arm injury is usually not severe, unless you have to manage life without your arms. Arm breakages and fractures are very common forms of personal injury claims, where most make a full recovery. However, in the event of arm amputations, people can have their access to work and leisure completely removed, especially where suitable prosthetics are not available. If you’ve suffered an arm injury and aren’t at fault, you will probably be entitled to personal injury compensation.
Holidaymaker receives £23000 in compensation following slip
Posted: 4 April 2016
Posted in: Accidents and Sickness Abroad, Arm Injury, Public Place Accidents
A holidaymaker has been given compensation of £23,000 after slipping on wet stairs whilst on holiday in Turkey. The injured party had been returning to his hotel from visiting the hotel’s facilities which was adjoined by an underpass accessed by a flight of stairs. The stairs were being hosed down and cleaned at the time the claimant was returning to the hotel when he slipped and fell, causing fractures to his wrist bone and damage to his cartilage. The claimant stated that a member of the resort’s staff had been hosing down the…
Read MoreWoman sues hospital over misdiagnosed fracture
Posted: 29 May 2015
Posted in: Arm Injury, Medical Negligence
A woman is suing Southend Hospital after doctors failed to recognise a serious fracture in her elbow. 60-year-old Shirley Johnstone was rushed to A&E after waking up in extreme pain, and despite taking x-rays, doctors sent her home with pain killers claiming that the injury was only a sprain. Six days later, when doctors reviewed her x-ray, a serious fracture was discovered in her elbow. It was heard that in this six-day window, Mrs Johnstone’s fracture displaced by four millimetres. As a result, she required immediate surgery and had…
Read MoreFamily pet attacks blind man and his guide dog
Posted: 15 November 2014
Posted in: Animal Attacks, Hand Injuries
A family dog has been issued a ‘suspended death sentence’ after it attacked a blind man and his guide dog last year. The Staffordshire terrier and Boxer cross, Sally, attacked James Garry and his German Shepherd, Jack, in June last year, leaving them both with puncture injuries. An expert from Guide Dogs Cymru examined Jack (aged 4) after the traumatic attack to make sure he was still a fit companion for Mr Garry. 45-year-old Michael Squire, a police worker from Old Colwyn, admitted to owning a dangerously out of control dog…
Read MoreWorker wins £40,000 in damages for severe hand injury
Posted: 27 September 2014
Posted in: Finger Injuries, Hand Injuries, Workplace Injuries
A Tyneside shipbuilder has been awarded £40,000 in damages after faulty equipment caused him to suffer a severe hand injury. 30-year-old Robert Gibbons, from Howden, had been working on a new project with boatmaking firm Alnmaritec Ltd when the accident happened. Mr Gibbons was unable to work for months following the workplace accident in September 2010. Mr Gibbons had been operating a Flat Bar Pyramid Rolls machine, a machine used to roll aluminum sheeting into shape. With the machine set to stop when the foot pedal is released, Mr Gibbons did not…
Read MoreInmate sues prison bosses for £10k after hand injury
Posted: 30 August 2014
Posted in: Hand Injuries, Workplace Injuries
An inmate at an open prison has sued prison bosses for £10,000 after a bin lid fell on his hand, causing him injury. 44-year-old Alan McAuley claimed that he seriously injured his hand while throwing rubbish away at Castle Huntly open prison, Dundee, last year. It was heard that he had been with another inmate when the accident happened, Marco Cittadini, who had helped him prop the bin lid open with a mop handle. Mr McAuley, a convicted drug dealer, said that he was unable to carry out normal day-to-day activities…
Read MoreOnly five of 241 pothole injury claimants win compensation
Posted: 9 August 2014
Posted in: Arm Injury, Head and Brain Injuries, Pothole Injuries, Public Place Accidents
Recently released figures have revealed that in Buckinghamshire only 5 out of 241 pothole injury claimants actually receive compensation. The figures were obtained by a Freedom of Information request by the Bucks Advertiser, revealing that only a very small percentage of people injured by potholes over the last five years won any compensation. The five successful claimants cost Bucks County Council £117,000. Mark Shaw, the deputy cabinet member for transportation, said that the council only pays out when they have failed to meet their duty of care. The figures were released after a…
Read MoreCouncil pays out £1m to injured employees
Posted: 18 June 2014
Posted in: Employer Negligence, Finger Injuries, Road Traffic Accidents, Workplace Injuries, Workplace Slip
Leicestershire County Council has paid out around £1 million to injured employees in the last five years. Figures revealed that the council settled a total of 31 claims from workers between 2009 and 2013. The victims of employer negligence received a total of £418,000, while the council paid out a further £655,000 in legal fees to the lawyers handling their cases. During that same time period, a total of 76 unsuccessful claimants sued the authority. Claims included one individual who sliced off the tips of two fingers on a manhole cover – they…
Read MoreMid Staffordshire NHS trust fined after death of diabetic patient
Posted: 29 April 2014
Posted in: Arm Injury, Hip Injuries, Medical Negligence, NHS Claims, Wrongful & Accidental Death
Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust has admitted to health and safety failings that caused the death of a diabetic patient. The trust has been fined £200,000 for failing to provide 66-year-old Gillian Astbury with her insulin, resulting in her death in April 2007. A judge at Stafford Crown Court said that Mrs Astbury’s death could easily have been prevented had she received the correct care. In 2010 an inquest found that there had been a failure to provide basic care to Mrs Astbury when she was admitted to the hospital for fractures…
Read MoreHammer attack victim left with severe brain injuries
Posted: 13 April 2014
Posted in: Arm Injury, Criminal Injury and Assault, Head and Brain Injuries, Hotel Accidents
A victim of a hotel hammer attack has been left with only 5% brain function and severe facial injuries. The woman was with her two sisters at the Cumberland Hotel, Marble Arch when the attack happened earlier this month. The attacker, 33-year-old Philip Spence, has been remanded in custody charged with three accounts of attempted murder. The main victim suffered life-threatening injuries in the attack, including the loss of large quantities of blood, the loss of one eye, and a significant loss of brain function. Despite this, her other organs are in…
Read More£7million paid out to police officers injured at work
Posted: 3 March 2014
Posted in: Car Accidents, Foot Injuries, Hand Injuries, Spine & Back Injuries, Workplace Injuries
A survey has revealed that over the last three years, a total of £7.4 million has been paid out by 35 of the 44 police forces located across England and Wales. With the addition of legal costs and other factors, the bill would total at £18.7million. The survey found that Police forces are settling over 400 compensation cases a year, with claims ranging from driving injuries to insect bites. Compensation claims included: £2,040 to a civilian employee in Surrey who had a notice board fall on their foot£5,000 to another…
Read MoreIllegal gas work causes serious explosion
Posted: 30 May 2013
Posted in: Arm Injury, Foot Injuries, Hand Injuries, Leg Injuries, Personal Injury, Public Place Accidents
Daniel George Hickling, 39, from Howsham, Lincolnshire, has been prosecuted with an 11-month prison sentence suspended for two years, 300 hours of unpaid work and pay costs of £2,000 after carrying out illegal gas work in a Nettleton home. Trading as DGH Plumbing and Heating, Mr Hickling was hired to reduce the height of two redundant gas pipes in an old kitchen as plans were in place for the room to be converted into a living room. After leaving the property, Mr Hickling had failed to switch the gas supply back…
Read MoreGlass company in court after employee loses finger
Posted: 26 March 2013
Posted in: Employer Negligence, Finger Injuries, Hand Injuries, Workplace Injuries
A West Midlands glass processor has been prosecuted for safety breaches after an employee’s finger had to be amputated when it was crushed in machinery. Asif Hussain was helping a colleague free a large piece of glass which had become stuck in a machine. Sandwell magistrates were told that Mr Hussain was able to enter the confines of the machine through a gap in the perimeter fencing. As he discussed how best to remove the glass with his colleague, his glove became entangled in the rotating drive shaft and his…
Read MoreHalifax company in court after employee's arm is crushed
Posted: 4 March 2013
Posted in: Arm Injury, Employer Negligence, Workplace Injuries
A Halifax firm that makes shop fitting equipment has been prosecuted after one of its employees had his arm crushed when it was drawn into an unguarded machine. The 35-year-old man from Siddal suffered extensive damage to his right arm in the workplace incident. He will never regain full use of his arm and has been unable to work since. Magistrates were told that in the week before the incident there had been a problem with chains coming off the machine’s rollers and maintenance engineers had been called out to…
Read MoreWindow firm fined over employee's severed finger
Posted: 26 February 2013
Posted in: Employer Negligence, Finger Injuries, Workplace Injuries
A Macclesfield window manufacturer has been fined after a workplace accident saw one of its employees had a finger cut off by a rotating saw. Macclesfield Magistrates’ Court heard that the 26-year-old was positioning a piece of uPVC plastic under the circular blade while it was still running. His left hand came into contact with it and his index finger was severed to below the second knuckle. The court was told that, in order to keep production moving swiftly, the machine would not be switched off in between cuts. This…
Read MoreArm Injury Compensation
Posted in: Arm Injury, Personal Injury
If you have injured your arms or hands, it can have a dramatic impact on your life. If you have suffered nerve or bone damage, or amputation leading to the loss of a hand, arm or finger, you may no longer be able to drive, write or work. As well as a loss of earnings associated with problems staying in work, and pain related directly to the injuries themselves, there is psychological trauma caused by limb loss or damage. Our team of specialist personal injury lawyers, based in Wakefield, may…
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