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Tour operator responsible for tragic deaths

Monday, 07 March 2016

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A tour guide from a Vietnamese tour operator is being questioned by police, and the tour operator has been suspended, following the tragic deaths of 3 British tourists on Friday. 24-year-old Beth Anderson and her sister 19-year-old Isobel Squir...

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Claiming for whiplash

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Tuesday, 19 May 2015

Road Traffic Accidents

Road traffic accident victims suffer whiplash across the country every day, and each victim is entitled to a claim. Despite the media-hype surrounding whiplash, if you have suffered a whiplash injury as a result of a road traffic accident that was no...

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Only 10% of GPs find appointment slots adequate

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Friday, 10 April 2015

Medical Negligence

Only 10% of the 15,500 UK GPs surveyed by the British Medical Association believe that the standard 10-minute patient appointment slot is sufficient to provide a quality service to patients. Only 87% of patients are being seen within the 18-wee...

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Man seriously injured after department store fall

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Tuesday, 30 December 2014

Accidents In Public Places

A man is currently in hospital with severe injuries after he fell in a department store in south-west London. The accident happened at around 13:05, when the man, believed to be in his 20s, fell from an escalator. A fellow customer in the shop,...

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Pothole claims all time high

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Thursday, 08 May 2014

Road Traffic Accidents

New figures have revealed that the number of claims for injuries related to potholes has risen by 750% in the worst hit areas. This is most likely due to having just endured the wettest winter in England and Wales since 1766, with winter floodi...

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Almost a quarter of a million paid out in compensation

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Friday, 04 April 2014

Accidents In Public Places

Newly released figures have revealed that almost a quarter of a million pounds of taxpayers’ money has been paid out as compensation to children in Leeds over the last five years. This figure covers money paid out to children that have suffered...

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£70,000 compensation after pothole crash

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Saturday, 22 March 2014

Road Traffic Accidents

A cyclist has been awarded £70,000 in compensation after a pothole threw him off his bike in 2009. Alan Curtis from Bushey in Hertfordshire suffered a “severe head injury” in the crash on The Drive in Rickmansworth. The 57-year-old sued H...

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Injury claims cost Essex County Council £1m

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Tuesday, 04 March 2014

Accidents At Work

Essex County Council has paid out over £1m over the last three years to staff injured in Essex schools. The largest payout, nearly a quarter of the total compensation paid to staff hurt in the city’s schools, went to a teacher who slipped on a ...

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Powerboat accident leaves family devastated

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Tuesday, 04 February 2014

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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...

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Cyclists appeal for safer roads

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Tuesday, 07 January 2014

Road Traffic Accidents

Following the deaths of numerous cyclists on Britain’s roads in the last year, one man is calling for more to be done to protect cyclists from other road users. Former engineer Graham Andrews (45), who is now in a wheelchair, suffered severe sp...

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New app allows cyclists to report potholes instantly

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Saturday, 28 December 2013

Accidents In Public Places

The Cyclists’ Touring Club (CTC) is due to receive £30,000 from Whitehall to improve their website, “Fill That Hole”, and develop a new app to enable cyclists to report potholes at the click of a button. The new app will provide cyclists in Lee...

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Museum told to improve safety after crush death

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Wednesday, 04 December 2013

Accidents In Public Places

After a 7-year-old boy was crushed to death under a ride at a museum last year, the museum has been told to improve its safety dramatically. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have issued the open-air museum in County Durham with an urgent improve...

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Four injured on Alton Towers rollercoaster

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Monday, 04 November 2013

Accidents In Public Places

Alton Towers' new £18m rollercoaster has caused four injuries after wheels fell off, hitting the passengers in the front carriage. The 14-loop ‘Smiler’ was opened in May, but has already seen three incidents. The ride already saw closure ...

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Woman wins case after nearly drowning as a child

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Wednesday, 23 October 2013

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Annie Woodland had to be resuscitated after she almost drowned in a school swimming lesson thirteen years ago – she has only now won a landmark case at the Supreme Court. Ms Woodland had been a pupil at Whitmore Junior School in Basildon, Essex...

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Contaminated water supply at Exeter school

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Monday, 02 September 2013

Personal Injury Claims

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...

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Hospital inspections blamed for not being thorough enough

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Friday, 19 July 2013

Medical Negligence

After eleven trusts were put under special measures following the unveiling of their unidentified failings, it has been declared that better inspections must be carried out in England’s hospitals. The new chief inspector believes that the way i...

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Rise in temperature causes surge in 999 calls

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Tuesday, 09 July 2013

Personal Injury Claims

Saturday (6 July) saw more 999 calls that New Years’ Eve, purely because of the hot weather. New Years’ Eve is traditionally the busiest day of the year for emergency services, but last Saturday topped these figures by a fair stretch. West Mid...

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Life without taste and smell

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Sunday, 30 June 2013

Personal Injury Claims

On 20 July 2010, double Olympic gold medalist James Cracknell sustained a brain injury after being hit by a petrol tanker on his bike, leaving him unable to smell or, subsequently, taste. This poses the question: what is it like to live without...

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Health and safety cuts put lives at risk

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Tuesday, 09 April 2013

Accidents At Work

Teacher’s union, the NASUWT, has raised concerns over the Coalition Government’s attacks on health and safety protections, claiming that these attacks threaten to put the lives of children and adults in schools and colleges at risk. At its recent Ann...

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Reducing occupational exposures to bloodborne viruses

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Tuesday, 15 January 2013

Accidents At Work

There were 541 reports of needle stick injuries that exposed healthcare workers to patients carrying bloodborne viruses in 2011, twice as many as a decade ago (2002) when 271 exposures were reported. The figures come from the Health Protection Agency...

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