Archive for March, 2010

An elderly man has received £1.25 million after suffering serious injuries in a car accident.

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

An elderly man has received £1.25 million after suffering serious injuries in a car accident.

The massive compensation claim payout will be paid as a lump sum, the 53 year old man said.

The man will also be awarded a further £57,500 a year which will help pay for his care after suffering a brain injury.

The incident occured on 13 October, 2006, when he was travelling along Deansgate, and was knocked off his motorbike when a car collided into him.

His head struck a bollard when he was thrown across the bonnet.This resulted in severe personal injury to his head, despite wearing a helmet.

He also suffered from a fractured pelvis and spine and has been left with balance problems, slurred speech, and poor concentration.

His injury lawyer said: “This crash has had a devastating effect on him and his family. Their lives will never be the same again.”

The 21 year old driver pleaded guilty to driving without due care and attention and also driving without insurance.

The High Court ordered them to pay a lump sum of £1.25m to the victim, plus £57,500 a year.

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Scheme for Faster Road Accident Claims Approved by Parliament

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

A new system to speed up the process of claiming car accident compensation has been looked at by parliament ministers.

Under the new guidelines, there will be fixed stages and costs associated to what type of road accident the victim has had and what personal injury they have suffered.

The system could be similar to the current Motor Insurers’ Bureau scheme, which compensates those involved in an accident with an uninsured or hit-and-run driver.

Compensation claims are also awarded on a tariff basis depending on the type and amount of losses sustained by the innocent party.

The new proposals would introduce deadlines for the claimants’ and defendants’ solicitors to put forward their claim intentions.

Only sums between £1,000 and £10,000 will be covered by the new system – though a figure between these numbers make up the majority of accident claim compensation payouts at the present time.

The scheme, which was developed in conjunction with the Ministry of Justice, is due to come into effect from the 30th April.

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£35,000 in work accident claims

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

A man who suffered multiple personal injury in a work accident, has been awarded £35,000 in compensation claims.

The man’s job involved unloading new cars from locomotive transporters.

On the day of his work accident, he found that the vehicle he was attempting to remove would not start. To have a closer look, the man attempted to climb down from the locomotive onto the track side.

However, there were no steps and no handrails, and as a result the man fell and fractured the bone in the top of his leg (the femur).

When he launched his work accident claim, his employers refused to admit liability because they said that they had done nothing wrong.

His injury lawyers carried out research into the designs of rail locomotives and concluded that there was a great deal, in design terms, that the employers should have done to ensure employees were not exposed to the risk of personal injury.

They also got an expert report from an industrial engineer who specialised in the design of locomotive rolling stock to confirm their suspicions.

The insurers had no choice but to accept the evidence and make payment to the injured man of £35,000 in compensation.

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