For many people, airline flights are something to look forward to. Often they are associated with going on holiday, jetting off to exotic places and leaving your cares behind. But if you are injured whilst travelling as an aeroplane passenger, it could affect more than just your [...]
Personal injury law – probably one of the most important areas of law – has something of a tarnished reputation. Whether it’s lazy solicitors buying-in claims from ropey claims management companies, or some large ‘factory-style’ law firms heaping a staggering numbers of cases onto their unqualified staff – it all [...]
It is very common for someone injured in an accident to have some degree of incapacity afterwards. A simple sprained ankle might mean that you are unable to get around as easily as before, perhaps forcing you to rest your leg until it gets better. A slight injury to your [...]
With celebrities making the trend for a fuller face more popular than ever, dermal filler injections have become a widespread non-surgical cosmetic procedure. Unfortunately, a lack of regulation means that many of these injections are carried out improperly, resulting in serious medical complications and a large number of compensation [...]
At the end of 2017 the UK Government published transport statistics in Great Britain showing road traffic accident statistics from 2016 for fatalities and injuries, whilst also highlighting the most common causes of road traffic accidents, which include tiredness and being distracted. We have put together this useful infographic showing [...]
In a claim for personal injury, medical negligence, professional negligence and other areas, a Claimant is required to comply with the Pre Action Protocol before they push on to issue Court proceedings. Generally speaking, a Claimant is required to await the Defendant’s “letter of response” before issuing Court proceedings. Here [...]
If you are pursuing a personal injury claim, such as an Accident at Work claim, obtaining medical evidence is a critical step of the process. Unless your injuries are very minor, it’s likely this step will involve being examined by a medical expert. The medical expert’s job is to act as [...]
At Truth Legal we have a specialist team of asbestos disease compensation solicitors. Asbestos related disease compensation needs to be dealt with by specialists, as most High Street lawyers (who are very good at many things) will not have enough experience of dealing with these complex cases. Most people know [...]
Compensation is intended to put you back into the same position you were in before the accident – as though your injury never happened. As a concept, it’s easy to grasp, but it’s something which is much more difficult to put into practice. It essentially comes down to two questions: [...]
Statistics show that in just one area of Lancashire and Cumbria, the number of hospital staff assaulted at work reached almost 400 in one year. The problem is so great that the Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust has taken drastic action to protect its staff – and recruited bouncers to try [...]
