Wakefield Personal Injury Blog

£33,000 paid out for injuries in Doncaster’s schools

Posted: April 6, 2014

Posted in: Personal Injury Public Place Accidents School Accidents 

Newly released figures have found that almost £33,000 has been paid-out in compensation to children that have injured themselves in Doncaster’s schools. This figure represents the compensation paid out by the authority in the last five years, with the highest payout standing at £7,000. Only nine claimants were awarded compensation out of the 76 personal injury claims […]

Brain injured boy returns home after a year in care

Posted: March 31, 2014

Posted in: Head and Brain Injuries Personal Injury 

A High Court judge has ordered that a toddler be returned to his parents after a year in care following a severe brain injury. The young boy was taken into care at only nine-months old after he fell from a bed. He was immediately rushed to hospital from his family home in Nottinghamshire with bleeding on […]

£14,000 compensation to pensioner following trip and fall

Posted: March 27, 2014

Posted in: Pothole Injuries Public Place Accidents Shoulder Injuries 

Thousands of pounds worth of compensation has been awarded to a pensioner who tripped and fell on an uneven road surface in Yeadon. The 88-year-old grandmother, Jean Whitters, sustained serious injuries in the accident on Yeadon High Street, and accepted £14,000 settlement from the authority. The accident happened in August of 2012, two years after the […]

Autonomous emergency braking could cut road traffic accident claims

Posted: March 22, 2014

Posted in: Road Traffic Accidents 

The Association for British Insurers (ABI) has called to have all new cars produced in the UK to be fitted with autonomous emergency braking (AEB), with the belief that personal injury claims could be cut by almost a fifth.  Research recently carried out by The Motor Insurance Repair and Research Centre (Thatcham) found that AEB […]

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

Posted: March 12, 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 […]

£7million paid out to police officers injured at work

Posted: March 3, 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 […]

Call for stricter medical checks for divers after man suffers heart attack

Posted: March 2, 2014

Posted in: Personal Injury 

After a man had a heart attack while diving in a Cumbrian lake, the coroner at the inquest has called for stricter regulations to be put in place concerning how divers’ medical records are checked. 39-year-old Carl Morris died in January 2013 after getting into some difficulty at a depth of 164ft (50m) at Wastwater. The […]

Hospital surgery deaths investigated by police

Posted: February 24, 2014

Posted in: Medical Negligence Wrongful & Accidental Death 

A police investigation has been launched in Worcestershire following the deaths of numerous patients under the care of a consultant surgeon. Sudip Sarker worked as a consultant colorectal surgeon at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust having already been suspended from the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch in October 2012, after being employed in August 2011. The investigation […]

40% of sufferers do not claim for whiplash injuries

Posted: February 10, 2014

Posted in: Car Accidents Neck Injuries Road Traffic Accidents Spine & Back Injuries Whiplash Injuries 

A recent report has revealed that around 40% of people who have suffered a whiplash injury do not claim compensation. With some believing that whiplash is not a valid personal injury to claim compensation for, experts stress the degree of its severity. According to a study by the NHS, it takes a whiplash sufferer around 32 days […]

NHS Short of 2,300 midwives

Posted: February 1, 2014

Posted in: Birth Injury Medical Negligence 

A recent report into maternity care has uncovered that a lack of NHS funding is putting mothers and babies at serious risk. The most concerning finding was that the NHS is currently short of 2,300 midwives for the UK’s current birth rates. The report has sparked great criticism from the Commons public accounts committee, arguing that […]