You can still make a personal injury claim for an accident at work if you didn’t report it. However, it’s a good idea to do so before commencing legal action against your employer, even if it happened a while ago. Your failure to report the accident may allow your employer ...
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 ...
Changing solicitors need not affect your claim negatively; far from it. Changing solicitors to a niche personal injury firm like Mooneerams should bring fresh impetus to your claim, and you will feel more comfortable. Legal costs are most people’s main worry when considering whether to switch solicitors, and you may ...
Sometimes, you ask a solicitor to act for you in an accident at work claim, but things don’t work out. We have spoken with people for whom that happened, and they feel trapped because they don’t realise they are entitled to switch solicitors when things go wrong. There are many ...
You are entirely free to choose any solicitor you want to handle your accident at work claim. Here are a few reasons why we think you should select Mooneerams solicitors! Mooneerams has existed for 21 years and continues to go from strength to strength. We only handle personal injury claims ...
