September 11th, 2009
A woman from Salisbury is to make a compensation claim after tripping on an uneven pavement and breaking a bone in her foot.
Janet Street, 62, told the Salisbury Journal the incident happened because of a drop of one inch in the level of the pavement in Albany Road.
She claimed that the pavement in the area is in a "very bad way".
"My foot is in plaster and I will not be able to work for the next four to six weeks," Mrs Street added.
The sheltered housing worker is now planning to make a compensation claim and has taken photographs of the pavement where the incident occurred to use as evidence.
A recent series of Freedom of Information requests by the Liberal Democrats revealed the extent of the problem of poorly-maintained pavements in England.
The requests revealed that local authorities paid out £82 million to settle compensation claims related to injuries caused by uneven pavements between 2004 and 2009.
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September 17th, 2008
A cyclist who took his local council to court after suffering an injury while cycling has been awarded compensation.
Stuart Bullen, 60, was riding his bike along a cycle path he had used before, the Lancashire Evening Post reports.
However, he was unaware that the path had been altered the day before and that part of it now veered on to the pavement over a raised kerb.
Mr Bullen’s bike hit the kerb and he suffered a fractured shoulder and wrist as a result, injuries which doctors say will worsen over time.
He took Lancashire county council to court and has now been awarded £11,000 in compensation.
Commenting on the payout, he said: "It was never about the money, it was just about the fact they had altered it and done it incorrectly."
Anyone who has been involved in an accident on a public pavement may be entitled to compensation if it can be proven that there was some form of defect with the pavement and the local authorities can be held responsible.
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August 18th, 2008
The parents of a young girl who was starved of oxygen at birth are claiming clinical negligence against the hospital that delivered her.
Amelia Rayner, who is now six years old, was born in June 2002 at Calderdale Royal Hospital, the Halifax Evening Courier reports.
Medical staff noticed that her heart rate had slowed considerably and, over four hours later, delivered her by caesarean section.
However, she subsequently had to be resuscitated and was left with a form of cerebral palsy – a physical condition which affects movement.
She suffers from epilepsy, has difficulty communicating and has severe learning disabilities.
Her mother, Lorraine McIntyre, said: "There are, of course, financial implications and although we have been helped by the local authorities we have accepted that we won’t get everything we need provided for us this way."
According to the family’s solicitor, earlier intervention by doctors would have meant Amelia would have been born without problems.
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