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Alton Towers owner prosecuted for rollercoaster crash

Posted: 2 March 2016

Posted in: Knee Injury, Leg Injuries, Public Place Accidents

The owner of Alton Towers, Merlin Attractions Operations Ltd, is to be prosecuted following the Smiler rollercoaster crash last year. The crash left five people with very serious injuries, with two women losing a leg and three others seriously injured. The company will appear in front of North Staffordshire Justice Centre on 22 April charged under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. The accident occurred when the moving carriage collided with a stationary carriage on the same track, and has been attributed to human error. The four people sitting at the…

Wedding ruined by foot injury in hotel

Posted: 30 November 2015

Posted in: Foot Injuries, Hotel Accidents, Personal Injury, Public Place Accidents

47-year-old Lesley Hegarty has been awarded a five-figure sum of compensation after a foot injury suffered during the morning of her wedding ruined her entire day. The incident happened at Liverpool’s Adelphi Hotel in May 2011. At 9:30am Mrs Hegarty went through the main entrance’s revolving doors to go outside after her breakfast. As she went through the doors, however, she hit the back of her right heel. As she shouted for help, she realised there was blood everywhere. It was found that a screw had been missing from the…

Mud and rain injures 1000 festival goers

Posted: 30 August 2015

Posted in: Foot Injuries, Leg Injuries, Personal Injury, Public Place Accidents

According to the medics that worked at this year’s V Festival in Weston Park, Staffordshire, a number of people were quite badly injured because of the mud. A storm hit the festival on the Saturday, which saw torrential downpours flood the campsites and arenas. It was recorded that ambulance crews were called to the scene of the festival 178 times because of mud-related injuries, treating a total of 1,000 people on site. A total of 36 people required hospital treatment. A report showed that injuries ranged from suspected fractured ankles…

PE teacher wins £41,000 injury compensation after demonstration

Posted: 25 June 2015

Posted in: Head and Brain Injuries, Knee Injury, Leg Injuries, Workplace Injuries, Workplace Slip

Following recent conferences, it was found that hundreds of teachers made claims amounting to £26million last year alone. One claim saw a PE teacher win £41,000 after injuring himself during a long jump demonstration. Another teacher was awarded £75,000 for tripping over a carpet. Details of the individual cases were released in April when the two main union conferences began, for the NUT and NASWT. The 25-year-old PE teacher suffered soft tissue injuries to his leg and dislocated his knee while carrying out a long jump demonstration before his class…

Cathedral suing the NHS after worshipper claims for foot injury

Posted: 1 April 2015

Posted in: Foot Injuries, Medical Negligence, NHS Claims, Public Place Accidents

A cathedral in North Yorkshire is currently suing the NHS after it was forced to payout to a worshipper who was not immediately treated after injuring himself during a service. Christopher Shepherd attended the surface at the Ripon Cathedral in North Yorkshire two days before Christmas in 2009, when he tripped and fractured his foot. The severity of the injury left Mr Shepherd unable to walk and requiring the use of a wheelchair. Lawyers argue that negligent medical treatment is to blame for the development of Mr Shepherd’s injuries. They…

Tracy Morgan still recovering from brain injury after car crash

Posted: 25 November 2014

Posted in: Car Accidents, Head and Brain Injuries, Leg Injuries, Road Traffic Accidents, Wrongful & Accidental Death

46-year-old comedian Tracy Morgan is still recovering from a serious car crash he was involved in five months ago. The accident happened in New Jersey in June when a ‘speeding’ Walmart truck slammed into the back of his vehicle. Those involved were taken immediately to hospital, but Mr Morgan’s friend and fellow comedian James McNair was sadly killed in the crash. Three others were severely injured. Immediately after the accident Morgan was taken straight to hospital with several serious injuries including a broken leg, a broken nose and broken ribs. Five months…

Report reveals NHS is failing vulnerable patients

Posted: 29 October 2014

Posted in: Leg Injuries, Medical Negligence, NHS Claims

An NHS Ombudsman report has revealed how vulnerable patients are being failed by the health service. The report referenced three cases where patients had received terribly inadequate care and treatment. The report described the findings as ‘devastating and shocking’.  One example was of a baby who suffered severe brain damage following serious medical mistakes. The baby had developed jaundice a day after it had been born at a London hospital, and required immediate medical treatment involving a blood transfusion. The doctors and nurses involved in the treatment procedure took more blood from…

Commonwealth athlete changed event following injury

Posted: 1 August 2014

Posted in: Knee Injury, Personal Injury, Sporting Injuries

Four years ago Olivia Curran planned to represent the Isle of Man in gymnastics at the Commonwealth Games.  However, following a serious knee ligament injury, the teenage gymnast was ruled out of the Dehli Games. The accident happened during a training routine manoeuver only days before the event. On Saturday, however, Olivia Curran will be representing the Isle of Man in the pole vault following an event transformation. The 23-year-old will be competing in Glasgow as a pole vaulter. She is the first Manx female gymnast to compete at the Commonwealth Games and…

Council pays out £83 a day for pothole damage

Posted: 31 July 2014

Posted in: Foot Injuries, Pedestrian Injuries, Pothole Injuries, Public Place Accidents, Road Traffic Accidents

A council is found to be paying out the equivalent of £83 a day in compensation due to the damage being caused by potholes. Barking and Dagenham Council has paid out a total of £182,635 in the last six years to claimants seeking compensation for personal injury and vehicle damage. The figures were released as part of a Freedom of Information request. It found that a total of 22 claims had been made against the council in relation to pothole damage between January and May 2014, (compared with 40 in the entire…

Dog owner banned for ten years after 6 year old is bitten

Posted: 24 July 2014

Posted in: Animal Attacks, Leg Injuries

The owner of a dog named Chaos that bit a six-year-old girl has been banned from owning dogs for the next decade. David Rice, the owner of the American Bulldog, admitted that he had recognised aggressive tendencies in his pet before the accident happened. The girl was attacked in December of last year, suffering fairly major physical injuries and psychological damage. The dog had been in the garden area of Mr Rice’s close when it attacked the young girl last year. It supposedly lunged at her body, gripping her in its mouth. Procurator…

£2m in workers compensation to council staff

Posted: 22 April 2014

Posted in: Knee Injury, School Accidents, Spine & Back Injuries, Workplace Injuries, Workplace Slip

New figures have revealed that councils have paid out over £2 million in compensation to staff who have successfully claimed for workplace injuries. The cases included individuals claiming for slips, trips and falls, assaults, and many other workplace injuries. Two of the claimants were awarded compensation after suffering “psychological abuse”, while another school staff member received £200,000 in compensation after being assaulted in a special-needs school. The figures were released through a Freedom of Information request, revealing that more than 100 council workers were successful in gaining compensation since 2009. Norfolk County Council…

Holiday accident means father-of-two will never work again

Posted: 12 March 2014

Posted in: Accidents and Sickness Abroad, Leg Injuries, Public Place Accidents

Doctors have informed 46-year-old Des Jarvis that he will never work again following a waterslide accident that happened when he was on holiday in Turkey. The father-of-two from Peterborough has been left with one leg shorter than the other following multiple operations to save his leg. The accident happened when Mr Jarvis catapulted into the wall of a swimming pool after coming down a waterslide in the family resort. He broke his leg in six places and required five operations to save the bone from infection. The operations involved doctors having to break…

£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…

Postwoman urges owners to control dogs following attack

Posted: 15 January 2014

Posted in: Animal Attacks, Leg Injuries, Workplace Injuries

29-year-old Helen Burgin has made a plea to dog owners to control their pets after she was left “scarred for live” following a brutal dog attack. The postwoman had been delivering mail on the Moss estate in August when a dog attacked her, leaving her with severe leg injuries. It was heard that at the time of the accident, children were present and the Royal Mail worker was left with two severe puncture wounds in her leg. The owner of the 9-year-old collie cross Staffordshire bull terrier, Patch, appeared at the…

Family dog bites two-year-old girl

Posted: 9 August 2013

Posted in: Animal Attacks, Head and Brain Injuries, Leg Injuries

A toddler has been transferred to a Sheffield children’s hospital following a dog attack. The incident occurred shortly after 10am on Tuesday in Rawmarsh, Rotherham, despite the rottweiler being on a lead at the time. The dog attack caused the two-year-old serious head injury and leg injuries, after which she was taken directly to Rotherham district general hospital by ambulance. She has since been moved to Sheffield children’s hospital. Police said that the dog was on the lead with a girl and woman at the time of the attack, and is believed…

Illegal 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…

Building contractor prosecuted after worker loses leg

Posted: 9 April 2013

Posted in: Leg Injuries, Shoulder Injuries, Spine & Back Injuries, Workplace Injuries

A director of a Wimborne building firm has been fined after a self-employed worker was seriously injured when working on an extension at a local cottage. An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that the property was on a sloping site and needed excavating below the level of the shallow cottage foundation in order to construct the foundations for the extension. Mr O’Connor, 42, was in the process of lowering the ground level when the gable wall collapsed, knocking him to the ground. At the same time,…

Leg Injury Compensation

Posted in: Leg Injuries, Personal Injury

If you injure your leg in an accident that was not your fault then you could be entitled to make a compensation claim against the negligent party as an injury to the leg can not only be very painful but can causes severe discomfort to the victim and the victim’s family. You can suffer a leg injury in any number of ways from a slip, trip or fall to a surgical error or a road traffic accident. It does not matter what type of injury you have sustained and it…