Trips And Falls - Accident Or Negligence
If you're out shopping in your local town or village and you trip on a raised paving
slab or broken kerb and suffer injury as a result, you may be able to claim compensation from the local council. In a similar way, if you're a council house tenant and suffer an accident due to something that has previously been reported as a problem to the housing officer, it may be possible to claim. If you have drawn the council's attention to something, maybe a broken step or uneven floor and they have failed to repair it in a reasonable time; you could have a good case, especially if you have had to repeat the request.Mishaps involving trips, falls and slips are very common. If you're injured in a shop, restaurant or other public place and the injury was caused by a problem such as torn floor covering or other hazard, such as spilt liquid which has not been attended to you should consider making a personal injury compensation claim. It's the duty of occupiers of all buildings where the public have access to take reasonable care for the safety of their visitors. In the workplace too, employer's have a duty of care to provide a safe environment for their workforce.
Badly maintained paths can be a nightmare for older people, whose sight may not be as good as it once was. The state of some pavements is poor and where this is the obvious cause of any injury there would be a good case for a claim.
Recovery time can be prolonged after a bad fall and where there is absolutely no blame on the part of the person, there should be a claim on the occupier's public liability insurance policy. Don't be put off by the cost of doing this as it's possible to use a no-win, no-fee arrangement.
If you think you have a claim it's a simple matter to go on-line and search for a no-win, no-fee adviser. You can have a chat with them or even fill in a claims form on-line. They'll take all the details of the incident and find you a solicitor in your area who will assess the viability of the claim and take the risk off your hands. You will pay nothing if you don't win.
You have a duty of care too, though. Take the case of something which happens all the time in the local supermarket. You'll hear the call "Cleaner to the cleaning aisle". They will (or should) then go to the aisle and erect hazard signs whilst they begin to clear whatever has been spilt or smashed. If you dodge around the sign in a hurry to get around it and consequently slip, then it would be difficult to argue the case that the store had been negligent. A floor in a store could be wet and slippery for various reasons and if you become aware of this, then drawing an assistant's attention to it could avoid trouble for everyone.
If you have an accident that was caused by someone else's carelessness or neglect, then you could be out of action for a considerable time. It's unfair that you should suffer inconvenience and expense on top of the pain that the injury causes.
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