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Employers are required by law to take all reasonable steps to protect their employees from foreseeable accidents and injury. They are responsible for accidents caused by their own failure to protect their workers’ safety, and for injury caused by their employees’ negligence at work. Where someone is injured at work as a result of their employer’s or co-workers’ negligence, they may be entitled to claim compensation.
For over 30 years, our specialist personal injury solicitors have helped clients recover compensation and rebuild their lives after serious injury from accidents at work. We understand the health and safety (H&S) regulations which govern workplace accidents and specialise in securing funded rehabilitation and compensation for clients in claims involving complex and severe injury.
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It costs nothing to talk to us to find out about making a personal injury claim for yourself or a member of your family. You can contact us by telephone or by email for free, confidential advice from a specialist personal injury solicitor. In serious injury cases, we often visit our clients in the hospital or at their home if they are unable to get to our offices.
We will ask you to tell us briefly about the accident and injury. We will advise you about your time limits and whether we can help you make a claim. Your solicitor will discuss with you how your claim will be funded and advise, fully and clearly, how that works and what it will mean for you. We offer a range of funding options, but most of our clients’ claims are handled on a ‘no win, no fee’ basis.
We will put your claim to the defendant individual or organisation whose negligence caused your injury, and we will handle all communication on your behalf. The defendant’s employer’s insurers will usually handle the claim on the employer’s behalf and will be responsible for paying any compensation. Once we are in contact with the defendant’s insurers, we can begin to secure the necessary rehabilitation and specialist support to meet the injured person’s immediate needs whilst we proceed with the claim.
Senior Partner, Personal Injury
We secured a £300,000 compensation for a roofer who suffered a fracture to his heel when he fell from a ladder. Liability for the accident was admitted by his employer. We secured private surgery and rehabilitation for our client, funded by his employer’s insurers, and interim (advance) payments of £44,500 to help his recovery and ease his financial hardship during the claim.
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Claire is exceptionally knowledgeable in the personal injury legal domain, especially in the specific area of my injury. From our very first conversation, she was clear in explaining the potential different routes that the process could take and provided me with expectations of what I could expect along the journey. She ensured that all bases were covered, organising meetings, discussions and necessary specialist appointments, in order to bring together the case and take it forward. Claire was then able to use her extensive pool of contacts, to appoint an "area leading" barrister, to represent me. Overall, I was very pleased with appointing Claire and Boyes Turner to act as my solicitor for the legal claim that I pursued. Thank you for all of your support.
Kim and team at Boyes Turner were a patient and stabilising force though a multi year case. This case was littered with trauma and upset from the beginning and exacerbated by mis truths and rewriting of the demonstrable facts from the opposition. Kim guided me carefully through the process and helped to neutralise the negativity coming from the opposition throughout.
I’ve been very lucky to have Martin & Roshni collaborate to help me when I needed a solicitor to takeover from a very horrible accident. They both are very caring, professional and succeeded getting the best outcome in my case. This is the second time in using this solicitor’s firm and always the same high standard service.
I approached Claire Roantree of Boyes Turner in regards to making a claim about a workplace burns injury. It was something that had scarred me physically and mentally and taken a huge toll on the lives of me and my family. Claire wasted no time in finding out what happened and made sure I was treated by known experts and quickly finding an answer to my burns scarring and how I could be treated to help manage my pain. Claire also helped me by appointing a psychiatrist to understand my situation and help me cope with post traumatic stress disorder. As well as taking as much stress of the claim away, she was thorough in every situation, making sure I had the best possible claim, and handled it all expertly, I am so very grateful to her and her team. They have helped guide my life back into a positive direction and I can't thank her enough!
If you have been injured in an accident at work as a result of your employer’s negligence, you may be able to make a work accident compensation claim for your injury and its financial consequences.
The law requires employers to protect their employees from foreseeable accidents and injury. They can do this by creating and maintaining a safe working environment and safe systems of work, regularly assessing risks, and providing the training, protective clothing and equipment that their employees need to do their job. They owe their employees a general duty of care to prevent foreseeable accidents and injury, but must also comply with multiple, statutory health and safety (H&S) standards and guidelines, including those set out in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and a set of regulations which are known as ‘The Six Pack’.
The key regulations include:
Where an employee is injured as a result of the employer’s failure to comply with these regulations, this can help provide evidence that the employer was negligent and prove liability in our client’s injury compensation claim.
Workplace accidents can sometimes be dismissed as carelessness, with the employee encouraged to assume that their injury was their own fault. However, if the accident was caused wholly or partly by the employer’s negligence, the injured employee may be entitled to substantial compensation.
Employer negligence and health and safety (H&S) failures which commonly lead to work injury compensation claims include:
The most common accidents that lead to work injury compensation claims include:
Our personal injury solicitors specialise in helping clients who have suffered severe, life-changing injury or permanent disability as a result of someone else’s negligence. We can help clients, and their families, after their employer’s negligence led to injuries such as:
Accidents can take place in any environment where an employer or business owner fails to consider the risks of accidental injuries and take reasonable steps to prevent them. However, some industries or occupations have higher rates of serious injury from workplace accidents. These include:
Business owners and employers have a responsibility to provide a safe workplace or business premises to all visitors to their site, not just full-time employees. Claims against an employer or business owner for compensation for workplace injuries caused by negligence or failure to provide a safe working environment can be made by:
We can also help recover compensation for UK residents who have been severely injured as a result of their employer’s negligence whilst working abroad.
Each client’s claim is carefully calculated to compensate them for their injury, its impact on their life, and to meet their additional needs arising from that injury now and in the future.
Depending on the client’s injury and circumstances, their claim may include compensation for:
In work accident claims arising from fatal injury, the deceased’s family and dependents may be able to claim funeral costs, the statutory bereavement payment and compensation for their loss of the deceased’s income and ‘services’, such as childcare, housework, DIY and gardening.
Where the injured person’s own actions contributed to their accident or injury, they will usually still be entitled to compensation as long as their employer was partly at fault. In these circumstances, their compensation may be reduced in proportion to their own contributory negligence.
Employers and business owners are required by law to have insurance in place to cover claims against them relating to injury and death. Employers (and their insurers) are also liable for injury caused by the negligence of their employees. This means that, depending on the circumstances of the accident, the injured person’s compensation may be paid by the defendant’s employer’s liability insurance, public liability insurance or motor insurance.
Claims against the Ministry of Defence are paid by the MOD (via the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme). Claims arising from injuries caused by violence may be compensated via the CICA (Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority) if there is no other responsible, insured defendant.
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