Case Studies

Ken a building contractor aged 37 years was bicycling down a road in Bristol when he skidded on sand which had blown onto the road from some roadworks and fell off his bike suffering minor injuries to his wrist knee and back. Liability was denied but...

Karen, who worked as a Funeral Service Arranger, was just sitting down on her chair in her office when one of the chair arms, which had already become loose through wear and tear, gave way. Karen lost her balance and fell on to the ground and broke her hip....

Dominic and his girlfriend were walking his dog when he tripped on an upraised paving slab and fell, damaging his wrist....

As a delivery driver Angus was taking food stuffs to the cinema section of a complex in Castleford. He had to transport the food using a metal cage on wheels and needed to take the cage into a lift. On this occasion a wheel of the cage got caught on a...

Annabel was wearing a seatbelt in the front passenger seat of the car as she and her friend were travelling along Embankment Road in Plymouth. Suddenly both front airbags in the car inflated for no apparent reason. The driver lost control of the car and it...

Barbara was awarded £20,000 for long-term headaches and neck pain. When she was shopping in the frozen food section at the supermarket Barbara lifted the lid of a chest freezer to reach inside. The lid hit her on the back of the head causing...

On the day of the accident Susie went into a bar and at the time she went in the stairs were dry. However, when she left the bar the stairs were wet and they had become extremely slippery as a result Susie had a bad fall and broke her ankle....

At 0630 in the morning Jeff was working as a delivery driver. He was standing at the back of the lorry to reach up for a carpet above head height.  As he was in the process of pulling the carpet out he grasped hold of what he believed was plastic...

Rosemary’s job is to provide daily care to a house of 4 residents with severe learning disabilities, one of whom requires the use of a wheelchair.  Rosemary had to get one of the residents to college and although the student had a car, due to his...

While she was in hospital for the replacement of a joint in her arthritic left knee Margaret was fitted with an inappropriate new joint and her knee then became infected. Margaret had to undergo further operations to correct the error. A claim was pursued...