The Accident Claimline Blog

A teacher has received £23,000 in compensation after slipping on a puddle of water in a school corridor.  The teacher suffered serious ligament damage in the accident, with injuries to their feet and ankle. The court ruled that the school was to...

The Milligan family has been torn apart after their powerboat spun out of control on holiday, leaving two dead and two severely injured.  The family had a holiday home near Rock where they spent last May going out on their boat along the Camel e...

After a radiology specialist accidently cut an artery of a man suffering from high blood pressure, a coroner said that his death could have been “avoided”. 47-year-old Brian Galea, from Preston, was admitted to the Royal Preston Hospital on the 14th ...

A Carillion employee has been found guilty of producing a falsified document that provided greatly inaccurate figures concerning the level of iron present in a school’s water supply.  Carillion is responsible for the infrastructure at six school...

After Cheltenham’s accident and emergency unit suddenly closed last week, a Cotswold district councillor described the abrupt occurence as “deeply flawed”.  As of August, all out-of-hours emergency cases are to go the Gloucestershire Royal – Glo...

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published provisional statistics on workplace ill health and injury in Britain between April 2011 and March 2012. The figures show that: - 22,433 major injuries such as amputations, fractures and burns, to em...