Pages On: Leg Injuries

Tourist awarded compensation following aeroplane injury

Posted: 4 April 2016

Posted in: Accidents and Sickness Abroad, Leg Injuries, Public Place Accidents, Public Transport Accidents, Shoulder Injuries, Spine & Back Injuries

A tourist was awarded £3900 in compensation by an airline following injuries sustained when returning from an overseas holiday. The claimant had warned the operator in advance that she had difficulties walking and had requested assistance on boarding and disembarking the aeroplane. However, upon her return from holiday, assistance was not provided. She subsequently stumbled whilst descending the staircase causing her to jar her back and shoulder. She also sustained injury to her leg. No record of types of disability assistance The holidaymaker decided to press for compensation and appointed lawyers to…

Double amputee wrongly funded her own care following council dispute

Posted: 31 May 2015

Posted in: Leg Injuries, Medical Negligence

A mentally ill woman, and double amputee, was forced to fund her own care for more than fourteen months following a funding dispute between the council and her local health trust. The woman, who remains unnamed, was left “house-bound, isolated and depressed” following a dispute between Sheffield City Council and Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust regarding who was responsible for funding her care. She was left with highly inadequate care, with an agency worker visiting her only twice a day. “trust should have acted sooner” The woman…

Pupil wins £250,000 in compensation for serious injury

Posted: 29 May 2015

Posted in: Foot Injuries, Personal Injury, Public Place Accidents, School Accidents

A Leicester pupil has been awarded £250,000 in compensation after suffering life-changing injuries. Details of the payout made by Leicester City Council were released following a Freedom of Information request. However, the authority has declined all further comment and it is therefore unclear who the child was, how old he or she was, what school the incident happened at, and the extent of the injuries. A council spokesman, however, did state that the compensation covered loss of future career aspiration, suggesting the severity of the child’s injuries. Last year saw…

Firefighter secures compensation after ladder breakage destroys his arms

Posted: 26 March 2015

Posted in: Arm Injury, Foot Injuries, Workplace Injuries

A firefighter who was forced to medically retire after an incident during a training exercise has been awarded a six-figure compensation package. Michael Hollings suffered the life-changing injury at Ilkley Fire Station when the ladder he was on cracked and fell to the ground, leaving him suspended at six inches above the floor. He suffered a severe fracture and two dislocated elbows and forearms in the accident. He also fractured his right foot and suffered serious concussion. Medically retire Mr Hollings had been a firefighter for eight years prior to the…

Knocked down pedestrian claims accident caused brain damage

Posted: 25 November 2014

Posted in: Foot Injuries, Head and Brain Injuries, Pedestrian Injuries, Public Place Accidents, Road Traffic Accidents

A 42-year-old factory worker claims she suffered serious brain damage after being knocked down by a motorist in 2012. Iwona Sobelewska, from Poland, said she was ‘run over’ by Michel Alfred Threlfall in the car park of an off-license in Blackburn two years ago. It was heard at London’s High Court that Ms Sobelewska had suffered a severe head injury and a broken ankle in the accident. It was heard in court that Ms Sobelewska had no recollection of the actual accident, but was certain that she had been hit by…

Compensation awarded following blood clot misdiagnosis

Posted: 20 September 2014

Posted in: Birth Injury, Leg Injuries, Medical Negligence

A mother has been awarded £400,000 in compensation after she developed a potentially fatal blood clot after giving birth. The 41-year-old had complained of discomfort but was told by hospital staff that it was probably just hormones. Her lawsuit argued that she was not properly assessed despite being in a high-risk category having had deep vein thrombosis in her leg after giving birth to her first child. The unnamed mother is to receive £400,000 from the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust. It has been argued that even if the clot…

Climber rescued by RAF helicopter

Posted: 25 August 2014

Posted in: Leg Injuries, Personal Injury

A RAF helicopter rescued a man with serious injuries after falling 25ft (7.6m) down a cliff-face. The 22-year-old had been climbing in Derbyshire when he fell down a crag into a very difficult-to-reach area. The Derby Mountain Rescue team rescued him with a Sea King helicopter that had come from RAF Leconfield in East Yorkshire. The man had been climbing High Tor in Matlock Bath when the accident happened on Saturday afternoon (23 August).  Derby Mountain Rescue found him at the foot of a crag with serious leg and facial…

Compensation shock after man lost leg

Posted: 6 August 2014

Posted in: Leg Injuries, Personal Injury, Public Place Accidents, Road Traffic Accidents, Spine & Back Injuries

The wife of a taxi driver that lost his leg in an incident is shocked at the outcome of her husband’s case. Jeremy Mayers (63), the owner of company ‘Fab Kabs’, was crushed while loading a suitcase into the back of his taxi in Pontypool in January. The driver of the vehicle that caused the damage, Laura Llewellyn, received six penalty points and a fine of £115 after pleading guilty. Mr Mayers, a father of two, had to have his right leg amputated from the knee down and his back pinned…

Families launch legal battle after their children are injured in bus crash

Posted: 31 July 2014

Posted in: Bus Accidents, Leg Injuries, Neck Injuries, Public Transport Accidents, Road Traffic Accidents, School Accidents

The families of multiple schoolchildren injured in a bus crash in County Durham last month have launched legal action for their extensive injuries. The crash happened on the 3rd of June between one double-decker bus, operated by Go North-East, and a single-decker bus run by Stanley Travel in Shield Row Lane, near the junction of the A693. Both of the drivers and 28 schoolchildren were taken to a nearby hospital by 13 ambulances. Both of the buses had been taking schoolchildren to their schools when the crash happened: one to Tanfield School…

Council pays out over £330,000 in school injury compensation

Posted: 18 June 2014

Posted in: Finger Injuries, Foot Injuries, Public Place Accidents, School Accidents, Workplace Injuries, Workplace Slip

A recent report has found that Lincolnshire County Council has paid out over £330,000 in compensation to those injured at school. With claims ranging from a trapped thumb to a book falling on a child’s foot, the “compensation culture” argument has been raised in relation to many of the council’s payouts. The figures were released as part of a BBC Freedom of Information request which looked at the figures from 2008 to 2014. One teacher was awarded with £4,000 after they “almost fell” when a stool broke. Other successful claimants included…

Gym staff member injured by angry weightlifter

Posted: 31 March 2014

Posted in: Criminal Injury and Assault, Gym & Leisure Centre Accidents, Leg Injuries, Public Place Accidents, Workplace Injuries

A member of staff at Nuffield Health gym was injured on the leg after a man threw down his dumbbell when closing time was announced. Lee Maxwell had been doing bicep curls when staff-member Donald Brown announced to the gym that it was due to close. Mr Maxwell was holding a 60kg dumbbell before throwing it down in anger, hitting Mr Brown on the shin and causing him serious injury. The case was taken to Somerset Magistrates Court where Mr Maxwell defended his case, arguing that he did not intent to hit…

Police payout £144,000 to officers injured on duty

Posted: 3 March 2014

Posted in: Finger Injuries, Knee Injury, Workplace Injuries

South Yorkshire Police Force has paid out a total of £144,000 in compensation to officers injured while on duty. A total of 31 financial settlements were made by the force in only four years, (between 2008-2012) with payouts ranging from insect bites to knee injuries. As a result, the force has been urged to crackdown on officers who are ‘playing the system’ as personal injury compensation claims continue to become increasingly trivial. Compensation payouts included: £30,000 to an officer who tore a ligament in his knee while training£18,000 to an officer who…

Leicester woman severely injured in New York taxi crash

Posted: 22 August 2013

Posted in: Accidents and Sickness Abroad, Leg Injuries, Pedestrian Injuries, Road Traffic Accidents

23-year-old Sian Green, from Leicester, was seriously injured after being hit by a taxi in New York City on Tuesday. The British tourist had part of her leg severed when the cab reportedly mounted the kerb in Manhattan, and crashed into Ms. Green. The family has thanked a celebrity doctor and a passer-by for saving her life with the use of a mere dog lead and belt. Mehmet Oz – a well-known doctor in the US – had been filming in the area at the time of the accident, and was able…

4-year-old girl burnt on beach sand heated by disposable BBQ

Posted: 3 June 2013

Posted in: Foot Injuries, Hand Injuries, Personal Injury

As the weather has continued to improve throughout the UK, more and more of us are spending our evenings outside having a barbeque with friends and family. However, this proved rather dangerous on Sunday as a four-year-old girl suffered burns after falling in the sand on a Devon beach.  The young girl and her family were having a barbeque on Exmouth beach when she sustained the personal injuries. With only a disposable barbeque lit, the sheer heat that the container emitted caused the young girl to fall and seriously burn herself…

Leg Injury Compensation

Posted in: Leg Injuries, Personal Injury

If you have injured your leg in an accident that was not your fault then you could be entitled to make a compensation claim against the negligent party i.e. the party that was responsible for the accident and the injury, if they owed you a duty of care. Some people have a well established duty of care to others, for example, road users to other road users, surgeons to their patients, local councils to their local residents and so on. Any breach of this duty, for example, speeding drivers, negligence…