Repetitive strain injuries, or RSIs, are common injuries sustained by workers who undertake tasks such as typing, hairdressing, or assembly line work. Your employer must take reasonable steps to ensure your work environment is safe, including undertaking risk assessments to identify any measures that might prevent you from developing RSI. ...
Your employer is responsible for an injury you sustained during a break on the premises if your accident was caused by their negligence. For example, if loose carpet in the staff room caused you to trip and fall, you may be entitled to compensation from your employer for any resultant ...
Yes, agency and temporary workers are entitled to compensation for work-related injuries in the same way as permanent employees. You’ll need to prove that someone was responsible for your accident, which will likely be the organisation for whom you were working at the time. For example, if you were injured ...
Whether you can make a personal injury claim following an accident caused by you not following your employer’s health and safety procedures depends on the circumstances. For example, your employer has a duty to provide you with adequate training. If they didn’t, and that failure contributed to you not following ...
The Health and Safety at Work Act imposes various legal duties on employers to ensure the health and safety of their employees. Breaching the Act is a criminal offence for which your employer may be prosecuted. This is an entirely separate process from your personal injury claim. While you may ...
Employers can be held liable for an employee’s negligence where they expressly authorised the employee to act as they did. For example, if they instructed the employee not to undertake a risk assessment, and that failure led to an accident in which you were injured, you may be entitled to ...
Some accidents can cause multiple injuries, and you’re entitled to compensation for them all, provided the other party’s negligence caused them. Your injuries might all be physical, such as lacerations combined with broken bones, or they might be physical and psychological. In addition, your injuries may also cause long-term issues, ...
You can still claim compensation for injuries suffered in an accident if you were partly responsible. This is known as ‘contributory negligence’. It’s up to a Defendant to raise and prove contributory negligence. If they succeed in establishing that you were partly to blame for your injuries, you’re still entitled ...
When you’re injured in an accident that wasn’t your fault, part of your compensation will cover your ‘pain, suffering, and loss of amenity’. While it will be awarded as one sum, this aspect of your compensation can be broken down into one amount for your pain and suffering and another ...
If you were injured while on a package holiday, you may be able to claim compensation from your tour operator. Some common holiday accidents include swimming pool accidents caused by poor maintenance, road traffic accidents on sightseeing tours, and slips, trips, and falls on wet hotel floors. Even if the ...
