May 8th, 2009
A woman who has been left in fear of leaving the house after a fall on an uneven pavement is seeking compensation from her local council.
Daphne Slater, 73, was being pushed in a wheelchair to the doctors’ surgery by her son Stephen when he and the chair tripped over a sharp rise in the footpath, the Eastwood Advertiser reports.
Ms Slater fell from the chair and suffered cuts and bruises to her face, hands and feet, the Eastwood Advertiser reports.
She is claiming compensation from Nottinghamshire county council, alleging that it had not kept the path in a satisfactory state of repair and that it resurfaced it shortly after her accident.
The council has denied liability and declined to comment on the case while it goes through the appropriate legal channels.
Local council highways departments are usually responsible for maintaining and monitoring the condition of pavements, roads and highways.
They will be considered liable for any injury sustained in a pavement tripping accident if they have failed to have an adequate inspection regime or if they have not repaired any section of pavement that was known to be defective.
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April 21st, 2009
A man has secured an undisclosed sum in compensation after slipping on flower petals at a railway station.
Brian Piccolo of Witham was walking home from work at BNP Paribas in July 2003 when he slipped as he walked past Chiltern Flowers’ stall at Marylebone Station, London.
He suffered injuries to his wrist and back and fears that he may need a wheelchair in future.
"Everybody has been affected, the whole family. I walk 50 yards at best and then have to rest," he commented.
Mr Piccolo took legal action against the flower seller, claiming compensation of £1.5 million.
He won the right to damages in 2007 after a judge at the high court ruled that the shop did not have a "reasonably effective and safe system for dealing with the danger of fallen petals".
Mr Piccolo has now been awarded compensation as part of an out-of-court settlement, although it is not known if he received the full sum he had pursued.
Under the limitation rules for personal injury, court proceedings for compensation must be started within three years of the date of the accident, otherwise the claimant will lose the right to bring their claim.
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April 17th, 2009
A woman who claims that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) was at fault for an accident which caused her horse to kick her in the head is claiming compensation from the government department.
Jane Holloway, 62, was visiting the horse that she owns in Devon when a Chinook helicopter flew past.
She alleges that the vehicle was flying too low, at an estimated nine metres, and that this frightened the horse.
It reared up and kicked her, leaving her with a fractured skull and bleeding to the brain.
Ms Holloway is claiming compensation for the accident in the hope that she can avoid it happening to anyone else.
"I could easily have died, or been left in a vegetative state," she commented.
An MoD spokesperson said the accident is currently under investigation.
Statistics from the British Horse Society, published in the medical journal Spinal Cord, show that a third of accidents involving horses in the UK result in head injuries.
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April 9th, 2009
A woman who worked for London’s Tate Modern is suing the gallery for £20,000 amid allegations that the conditions there made her Crohn’s disease worse.
Elizabeth Andrews, 40, had been working at the Tate Britain in Millibank, but was relocated to the Tate Modern in South Bank in 2007, a move which she said she had not been consulted about.
She alleges that the building’s air conditioning and its size made her health problem worse and that as a result, she had to take more than a year off work.
Ms Andrews is claiming compensation from the gallery, which has denied the allegations.
A hearing on the case is set to take place in August.
According to the NHS, approximately one in 1,500 people in Britain have Crohn’s disease, a condition that causes inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract.
It affects more women than men and 80 per cent of those affected have to have surgery at some point in their lives.
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March 26th, 2009
A man whose hearing deteriorated after spending many years in a noisy workplace has secured compensation from his employers.
Alan Richardson, 58, worked for Rolls Royce from 1965 onwards, but began to notice problems with his hearing in 2006.
He now has to wear hearing aids in both ears and believes the time he spent working for the company contributed to this.
Mr Richardson sought legal action against Rolls Royce with the help of his union and has secured £6,000 in compensation.
"By claiming compensation I wanted to warn others to demand adequate protection for their ears when in noisy environments," he commented.
According to the Royal National Institute for the Deaf, workers must have hearing protection available at noise levels of 80 decibels or above and should be made to wear it at 85 decibels.
The organisation states that 500,000 people have suffered hearing difficulties as a result of excessive noise in the workplace.
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