The peak summer holiday season is approaching and the spurious nature of holiday sickness claims is about to hit home again for tour operators all over Europe. The craze in bogus claims is now so popular that many top resorts are seeing unscrupulous reps touting for business and coaching holidaymakers [...]
You've been injured in an accident that wasn't your fault and you don't know what to do. Life has thrown a spanner in the works. Life can be cruel, so cruel. What do you do now? Do you go to Google to find an injury lawyer? Or, do you use [...]
We have all heard it said many times. “We are a nation of dog lovers.” According to a poll in 2016 by BMG Research , it’s not just a well-worn saying but is backed up by statistics. A nationally representative sample of 1500 UK adults found that almost half of [...]
Whenever people start talking about making a claim for injury caused by a defective product (or a ‘faulty goods claim’ as they are often more commonly known) the writer’s mind, for some obscure reason, always turns to the scenario of a faulty clothes iron setting on fire and burning the [...]
It is probably fair to say that most people’s impression of the personal injury market is formed by brash adverts, nuisance calls, spam text messages, and by the idea of the ‘ambulance-chasing’ lawyer – forcing his card into the hands of an accident victim as they lie waiting for medical [...]
At this time of year with the risk of snow and ice there is a corresponding increase in the risk of slips and falls causing injury. This article looks at the legal position regarding the employer’s liability to pay compensation to its employees who have fallen during the course of [...]
Today – 6 January 2017 - marks the closure of the government’s consultation into proposed reforms for the soft tissue injury (whiplash) claims process. A legislative reform package shelved in 2015, it was resurrected in November 2016 with a consultation period of less than two months. If implemented, the proposals [...]
Each year the Department of Transport publishes a report entitled ‘Reported Road Casualties in Great Britain.’ The report outlines statistics relating to the number of casualties sustained by different types of road user and is broken down into groups: car occupants, pedestrians, motorcyclists and pedal cyclists. As a firm that [...]
People often ask us how to make a personal injury claim, so we have provided what we hope to be a helpful general outline as to how the procedure works. Because no case is exactly the same, the procedure can vary and this is only a brief overview of how [...]
Having a holiday to look forward to is something special. The excitement of counting down the days can be almost as invigorating as the holiday itself. But what if, after all that anticipation, the holiday is ruined by an accident, or you fall ill when you get there? An event [...]