Helen was walking into a jeweller’s shop when suddenly, without warning, the door shutter fell down and struck Helen on her head and injured her nose. Helen took action against the shop owners and building contractors who were working on the door....
Jo was a passenger in a car when she was injured in a high speed road accident. The car came off the road and crashed into a tree. Jo had facial injuries and lost some teeth, she suffered whiplash and psychological injury....
Dorothy was travelling on a coach holiday for senior citizens. When they arrived at the hotel and she was shown to her room she noticed that there was no light in her en-suite bathroom and that there was only a small light over the washbasin. She...
Vanessa goes to a beauty salon on a monthly basis to have a bikini wax. On one occassion during the waxing process a large piece of hot wax dropped onto her vagina and burned her....
Employed as a labourer, Wayne was operating a jackhammer on a sloping bank and as he was doing this his right leg became entangled in the wire, he tripped and fell approximately 8 feet injuring his arm....
Trevor was a trade refuse collector working for a national company. He went to collect refuse from a regular customer but was unable to reverse his lorry to collect it because there were cars blocking his path. He therefore maneuvered the lorry closer to...
Stephanie went out for a meal with her son and husband to a restaurant that had deliberately dimmed lighting to create an atmosphere. In addition, the floor was dark brown and to outline the edge of a step there was a black strip across it. Because of...
Barry was employed on a building site. He was asked to use a drill that he had not been adequately trained to use and the result was that he had a drilling accident and injured his hand....
Matthew was working for traffic management contractors on the M5 motorway between junctions 25 and 26. On the day of the accident he was sitting in the driver's seat of a stationary truck, legally parked, in an area that had been cordoned off by cones...
Employed as a Shop Assistant in a supermarket, Christopher’s main duties are shelf filling on the shop floor. On the day of the accident he was instructed to help out in the Warehouse and to unload a lorry. Christopher was attempting to manoeuvre a...
Working as a demolition labourer on a construction site Dan and 3 work colleagues were asked by the site foreman to lift a large slab of concrete that weighed approximately 80 kg. They had to lift the concrete from the floor and carry it to the middle of...
Rosemary was pulling a metal cage of stock onto the shop floor, she went through the double doors but after she pulled the cage around the corner she tripped over some cartons of milk that a work colleague had left in the middle of the aisle. Rosemary fell...
Gordon went to a refuse tip to dump waste for recycling. After he had put it into the skip he turned to walk away but his feet became entangled in nylon strimmer wire that had been left on the ground. He tripped and lost his balance and fell to the...
David was inserting screws into some ironwork which had been placed on a table in front of him. The table collapsed with the ironwork on it and fell onto his foot causing him a serious ankle injury....
Gordon was an experienced charge hand/manual worker with many years experience working with pneumatic drills and other similar tools. After long periods of continuous work with these tools Gordon began to suffer tingling sensations in his hands and was...
Nicola was a passenger in a car being driven by her husband. They saw a vehicle coming around a bend in the road from the opposite direction and that the driver of the oncoming vehicle had encroached onto their side of the road and was making little or no...
Sofia was employed as a cleaner and her regular duties included cleaning the mixing tanks which are about 8 or 9 ft off the ground. To reach the tanks Sofia climbed a ladder which was fixed to the tank but not fixed to the ground. As Sofia went back down...
As he was crossing the road at lights which were on red to traffic, Frank was hit by a car and his leg was broken....
Mark aged 28 years was a self-employed car cleaner and working in the car park when a reversed into him injuring his back. He recovered compensation of £1750....
Jim was a passenger in a works van travelling northbound on the M6. On the road there were flashing matrix signs warning that the slow and middle lanes were closing down directly ahead. Jim’s driver slowed down before eventually stopping in a line of...
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...
Frances tripped over a broken paving stone in a street in London and she fractured her right femur. The council accepted liability but argued over the level of care required by Frances from her husband and other family members. The case was finally settled...
Tanya, aged 37 years, was on holiday with her children in Turkey when she suffered salmonella poisoning as result of consuming a mushroom omelette. She had to go to hospital for the removal of her gallbladder and has suffered continuing problems with her...
Lara was shopping in a department store. She was looking at a shoulder height rail of clothes by a wall when she tripped on a glass panel that had been left on the floor. She then caught the side of the rail hurting her foot....
Kitty was cycling when she was hit by a car. She fell to the ground and suffered injuries to her knees, hands, toes and shoulder....
Margaret aged 64 years was visiting a coffee shop in Kingston upon Thames when she tripped up on two loose strips of rubber and fell suffering injuries to her back. Initially the coffee company offered £1,500 in settlement. On our advice Margaret...
Donald was employed at a London Mail Centre. He picked up a bag of post to put it on to the weighing scales but as he did so he injured his neck and pelvis. The maximum weight that employees may carry is 11 kilograms however this particular bag weighed over...
William who is 90 years old was knocked down by a car reversing out of an obscured driveway. Liability was admitted. William suffered a fracture to his left hip which would affect him for the rest of his life. It affected his confidence and...
Harry was employed to deliver and install photocopiers. He and three of his colleagues drove to a business in Bristol to deliver a photocopier and set it up. This involved transporting the photocopier to an upstairs room via a spiral staircase. As...
Peter was working in a supermarket and was in the process of trying to place a price label on the plastic strip on a bottom shelf. Suddenly a bag of dog food weighing 800g fell from the top shelf and landed on his lower back causing a back injury....
Anne who is a 15 year old school girl was involved in a road traffic accident when she was knocked down by a car whilst walking to school and sustained life threatening injuries including multiple soft tissue injuries in the pelvis and rectal area requiring...
One of Damon’s tasks at work was to collect and carry rolled up industrial safety nets and check them for damage. The nets were approximately 9 x 16 metres and weigh over 20kg and on this particular day the nets were wet and probably weighed in excess...
As she was cycling on her electrically assisted bicycle an oncoming car suddenly turned right across Hannah’s path causing a collision. She suffered soft tissue injuries to her hand, knee and shoulder. The car driver initially denied liability...
Our client, Samantha, was leaving the female locker room at work through the door which, because it was a fire door, had an automatic closing mechanism at the top. As she was walking through the door a metal box which was part of the mechanism, fell from...
On the day of the accident Ian was looking for his cat which had jumped over a garden fence which had recently been erected. He leaned on the fence with his elbows to see where the cat had gone but as he did so the fence panel itself broke and collapsed....
Jeanette had gone to a wedding with her niece and other members of her family. She had not been drinking during the day and at about 9.30 pm she decided to leave the reception. To make her way out she had to walk down some stone stairs, it was dark...
On Boxing Day Shaun had been drinking heavily with a friend at a local pub. Shortly after closing time he left the pub and attempted to cross over the road in order to walk home. As he stepped out into the road he was knocked down by a car and suffered...
Jason was working for a carpet store through an employment agency. He was unloading a lorry full of carpets and was pulling on one of the rolls of carpet when the wrapping around the carpet was ripped, Jason lost his balance and fell backwards onto...
As he was walking through a supermarket car park on his way back to his car Conrad tripped and fell on some low slung strapping which was surrounding part of the trolley parking area. As a result of tripping he suffered facial injuries and loss of...
As he was driving towards Derby along the A50 Mick was hit in the rear by another vehicle. He sustained whiplash injuries to his neck and shoulder....
Joy was working in a kitchen and she leaned over to pull down the serving shutter that had already been reported as faulty. She had to apply extra force to close it and as she did so the shutter suddenly released itself and landed hard on her hand....
Walking along the pavement Siobhan fell into a pothole and sprained her ankle. She claimed against her council for not keeping the pavement in a good state of repair....
Charlie is employed as a driver for a haulage company and one of his duties involves collecting water on a daily basis from the premises of customers. Last winter in the snow Charlie arrived at 3.30 in the morning at one customer’s premises and...
Following a change in work premises Teresa was required to work temporarily in a portakabin. Access to the portakabin was along a small pathway but because of the building works at her place of employment part of the pathway had been removed which resulted...
Last year Sonia was shopping at her local supermarket pushing a trolley alongside the refrigerated section when she slipped on a puddle of milk on the floor. She fell to the floor and injured her hip and back....
Joyce was walking along a pathway at a bus station when she tripped and fell forwards on to her front injuring her knee, her hand and her ribs. There was a small rise on the ground, in particular a black and yellow “small” hump, which Joyce had...
Maria was employed by a large catering company. She had just finished the night shift and was cleaning up ready for the day shift to start. She gathered up some rubbish to carry it to the food compactor. She walked through a door leading to the...
While she was looking around the market Irene tripped over a metal bar that had fallen from one of the market stalls and was lying on the ground. She injured her left shoulder and both knees....
As a Care Worker Carole had a range of duties. On the day in question she was asked to take a patient out for the day. The patient had been suffering with poor eyesight and had not long had an operation. Carole asked a supervisor for a wheelchair but this...
Nigel is a manager at a supermarket. During induction at the supermarket he was told that if a “Code 7” is announced on the tannoy that all managers must go to where there is an incident and assist. A ‘Code 7’ went out so Nigel went...
Paula was a bakery assistant at a shop. One of her tasks involved pushing a trolley loaded with crates of bread to the shop floor and then moving the crates to the rear of the store. On the day that she fell it was freezing cold outside and Paula was...
Employed at a young offender institute, Luke was on duty in the morning when some young offenders went to a youth centre for breakfast. While they were there some of the offenders played pool but the white ball became stuck inside the table. Luke opened the...
Harry works at a Quarry as the Weighbridge Operative. He was sitting in his office looking at his computer screen when one of the wheels on the swivel chair on which he was sitting collapsed. Harry received a severe downward jolt which gave him an injury in...
A work colleague gave Jill a lift home and Jill sat in the back seat of the car. Their vehicle was in the process of negotiating a roundabout, it was in the middle lane and stationary due to the volume of traffic and was waiting to go straight ahead when a...
Our client is a 40 year old mother and when she was visiting a Taylor Wimpey showhome in Swindon with her husband and two young daughters a door fell off the wall towards her youngest daughter. Our client moved forwards to protect her daughter and as...
While Steve was employed and working on a building site in Devon, he was struck, without warning, by falling masonry. He suffered a broken pelvis in two places, two broken fingers, cuts to the head, extensive bruising, scarring and shock. He sued his...
When he was working on a construction site Garth fell from a damaged works’ truck and injured his knee and groin....
Stuart was a delivery driver who was injured when he had to park his lorry on a steep gradient when making a delivery. He used a pump truck to remove the pallet from the back of his vehicle but because of the steep gradient both the pump truck and pallet...
Jane was walking across a dark car park of a Public House when she fell in a pot hole injuring the ligaments in her right ankle with continuing symptoms. She underwent X-rays and an MRI scan and was advised to have an operation. She had to rely on family...
Clive was driving a car when it was struck from behind by another saloon car. As a result of the accident he suffered multiple injuries. At the time of the accident Clive was employed by a large aerospace company as a project manager and he...
Sean was a heavy goods vehicle driver delivering goods to a distribution centre in Devon which served a major supermarket. He parked his lorry in a designated vehicle waiting area within the distribution centre and he then got out of his vehicle. There was...
George, who is 80 years old, received a settlement payment of just under £37,000 when he fell off a stage while giving a charity talk. The event was being held in a darkened marquee and George was on a stage that was cordoned off on three sides....
Russell, a 23 year old student, was working in a bar in Clifton, Bristol when he reached down to take out a bottle of alcohol which, unknown to him, was broken. The bottle broke in his hand cutting him and injuring a nerve and a tendon in his right hand....
A 20 year old Art Student, Zoe, was knocked down by a car at a zebra crossing in London. Zoe’s leg and ankle were seriously injured and she required operations. She was unable to return to college and her chosen career as a fine art restorer was no...
Lyons solicitors won a bitterly fought dispute with Network Rail which resulted in damages of £2,800 being awarded to their client. The client was disembarking from a train Charing Cross station on his way to work when he slipped and fell on ice. The...
Recent reports report asserts that the West roads now as bad as Namibia's with councils pleading for cash for repairs. Lyons can advise injury victims of pothole accidents on their compensation claims....
Tanya, aged 37 years, was on holiday with her children in Turkey when she suffered salmonella poisoning as result of consuming a mushroom omelette. She had to go to hospital for the removal of her gallbladder and has suffered continuing problems with...
Una was employed by a National Health Service trust as a business change manager. She had just come out of a business meeting when she slipped and fell on some poorly maintained concrete steps and she suffered a significant blunt impact soft tissue injury...
Our client tripped on an open drain in the courtyard of a hospital. She suffered a soft tissue injury to her chest along with a fractured rib and has been awarded £3,500 compensation....
Our client slipped on a puddle of water on the floor of a supermarket which resulted in a soft tissue injury to her knee. She has been awarded £4,000 for her personal injury claim....
Our client was walking down the stairs of his recently acquired council property when he injured the back of his ankle on an exposed screw on the stairs. As a result he suffered a large wound to the back of his ankle which subsequently became infected and...