A trainee apprentice has been awarded damages after breaking his ankle while working on a construction site. The boy, who was 17 at the time of the workplace injury, had only been with the firm for three months when he was left with another 17-year-old to complete “work they should not have been doing” without […]
A manufacturer has agreed to a five-figure damages settlement with a worker who suffered a string of injuries in a workplace accident when falling through the roof of a caravan on his first day on the job. As part of a legal case led by our accidents at work compensation specialists Hudgell Solicitors, it was […]
A Manchester Arena bombing survivor who had to have a finger amputated after it was hit by a flying steel nut from the explosion is trialling a ‘first of its kind’ prosthetic which she hopes will eventually become widely available for future amputees. Lisa Bridgett was at the arena waiting to meet her 17-year-old daughter […]
A man who suffered a shattered knee when knocked off his scooter has received £425,000 to compensate for the physical and psychological impact the accident has had on his life. He was hit by a car which had been heading in the opposite direction and pulled across his path to turn into another road. The […]
A woman who developed a life-threatening condition after being bitten by dog has been awarded £250,000 compensation by a hospital trust for its failure to put her on a course of antibiotics. The 50-year-old had been seen in a hospital’s emergency department and was discharged home after having the bite cleaned and a dressing applied. […]
A manual labourer who had to have his arm amputated following an accident at work has praised both his employers and the legal process after being able to stay in employment whilst receiving £2 million in damages for his life-changing injuries. The man, who has asked not to be named, had been working with equipment […]
Mihov's Client Story. My spinal cord injury changed life for my entire family
Five years ago – having suffered life-changing spinal injuries and been left paralysed from the waist down in a horrific motorway accident – Svilen Mihov says he felt his life was ‘all but over.’ He admits he was ‘desperate’ and constantly worried about how he would provide for his wife and children, expecting to spend […]
A care worker at an East Yorkshire residential home has been awarded damages for the injuries she suffered in an accident at work when she fell from a first-floor landing. Rhoda Elvidge was taken to Hull Royal Infirmary after she fell when a lift at the assisted living home in Withernsea had not drawn fully […]
A construction company has agreed damages with a worker who was hit by a brick which fell from scaffolding which had been unsafely stacked and ‘overloaded’. The man had been erecting scaffolding on the site of an apartment development in West Yorkshire when the accident happened in April 2022. The 43-year-old says he had previously […]
Angela Menzie's Client Story. My Road to recovery after a Road Traffic Accident.
A cyclist who was on his way to collect his child from nursery when he was knocked off his bike by a motorbike rider has been awarded £17,807 in compensation. Despite the motorbike rider responsible never being traced, the father-of-two, who suffered a broken wrist in the accident, was compensated by the English Motor Insurers’ […]
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