WORK ACCIDENT COMPENSATION CLAIM
Our specialist personal injury solicitors are all members of The Law Society panel of personal injury experts and deal with work accident compensation claims using the no win no fee scheme. You won't have to pay for any expenses and you don't have to finance your claim in any respect. Whether you win or lose you won't pay your personal injury solicitor a penny and your compensation is paid in full with no deductions. If you have been injured in an accident at work as a result of a co-workers negligent mistake or as a result of dangerous or faulty machinery, defective equipment or premises or as a result of unsafe working practices or lack of proper supervision or training or due to inadequate safety equipment or protective clothing or a breach of the regulations you will be able to take legal action for a work accident compensation claim settlement.
Health & Safety Law
Health and Safety issues have become more rigorously observed on the part of employers due to a general increase of work accident compensation claims. Most work injury law regarding safety requirements is contained in five statutes. The "Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992" requires employers to take steps to prevent their employees from having to undertake manual handling and where this cannot be avoided, the employer must carry out a suitable and sufficient risk assessment. Most employees making a compensation claim for a bad back will take advantage of this legislation however employers can often escape liability if they have carried out risk assessments and provided manual handling training. Employers must also comply with the provisions of "The Personal Protective Equipment At Work Regulations 1992" which requires employers not only to provide suitable and adequate protective equipment and clothing but the employer must also ensure that the employee makes use of it if he wants to avoid injury at work claims. The "Provision And Use Of Work Equipment Regulations 1992" and the "Workplace (Health, Safety And Welfare) Regulations 1992” cover a wide variety of health and safety issues in the workplace relating to the condition of industrial premises and equipment.
- The legal duty of an employer is to take reasonable care for the health and safety of an employee to reduce the possibility of a work accident. It is usually necessary in work accident compensation claims to show that an employer has been negligent however there are in addition other circumstances where an employer may be absolutely liable for his acts or omissions.
- A breach of 'statutory duty' is independent of negligence and work accident compensation claims can succeed even though the employer was not to his knowledge at fault and makes the employer absolutely liable for any injury suffered by an employee as a result of a breach of relevant regulations. An action for breach of statutory duty can often succeed in a many work accident cases where an action for negligence cannot.
- An employer is required to provide competent co-workers, adequate materials and a safe system of work with proper training and supervision and if he does not do so and an accident causing personal injury occurs then the employer will be liable to compensate the employee in a work accident compensation claim.
- In practice this means that if you are injured as a result of a co-workers negligent mistake, or as a result of dangerous or faulty machinery, equipment or premises or as a result of unsafe working practices, or lack of proper supervision or training or due to inadequate safety equipment or protective clothing or a breach of the regulations then you will be able to make a work accident compensation claims.
- future loss which is an estimate of losses that are likely to continue for the foreseeable future
- general damages which includes compensation for pain and suffering caused as a result of the injury.
- special damages represents compensation for loss of personal property and out of pocket expenses including wages loss.
- interest which is payable on some items of compensation.
Compensation Awards
Work accident compensation claims include :-
Free Legal Advice
We are not a claims management company and you will not have to deal with any unqualified middlemen, managers or clerks. We believe that it is important to have solicitors involved from the very start of accident compensation claims to ensure that liability is established without risk. If you would like free advice from accredited experts on no win no fee compensation claims just use the helpline and a member of the Law Society panel of personal injury experts will speak to you on the telephone without any further obligation.
Terms and conditions will vary for CICA claims and untraced MIB claims.