Bristol Personal Injury Blog

£10m payout to brain damaged young footballer

Posted: 10th April 2014

Posted in: Car Accidents Head and Brain Injuries Road Traffic Accidents 

A footballer with a promising future has been awarded £10million in compensation following a road traffic accident.  17-year-old Jack Farrugia had been a front seat passenger of a car when the driver lost control and collided with a stationary van. He had been wearing a seatbelt when the accident happened in November 2008, but was left […]

‘Guillotine gate’ injures six-year-old

Posted: 5th April 2014

Posted in: Finger Injuries Public Place Accidents School Accidents 

After a gate was found to be potentially dangerous by a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) report in 2004, a young boy has lost three fingertips in the gate described as a “guillotine”. The six-year-old boy, who suffered with learning difficulties, got his hand trapped in the hinges of the gate, cutting off three of his […]

Twenty-year fight for medical negligence compensation

Posted: 31st March 2014

Posted in: Head and Brain Injuries Medical Negligence 

The family of a girl who was left severely brain-damaged after an operation has finally been awarded compensation following a twenty-year battle. Nathalie Sugden was left with serious brain damage as a result of failures during a heart operation at Bristol Royal Infirmary. The operation was carried out a month after her birth, August 1994, […]

Family seek compensation for cyclist son

Posted: 25th March 2014

Posted in: Bicycle Accidents Head and Brain Injuries Pothole Injuries Public Place Accidents Road Traffic Accidents Shoulder Injuries 

A Gloucestershire family is currently seeking compensation for their 15-year-old son after he suffered severe injuries when his bike went into a pothole during a charity ride. Ollie Pike, from Malmesbury in Wiltshire, smashed his head and broke his collarbone in the accident on the 9th of March. He said that he swerved to avoid […]

Council paid out £150,000 compensation in last five years

Posted: 15th March 2014

Posted in: Public Place Accidents Workplace Injuries 

Recently released figures have revealed that Thanet Council has paid out around £150,000 in compensation to personal injury claimants in the past five years alone. The figures were attained as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request made by the Gazette newspaper, finding that a total of 70 claims had been made against the […]

Bristol NHS ‘disgusting’

Posted: 5th March 2014

Posted in: Medical Negligence Wrongful & Accidental Death 

The family of a young boy who died shortly after heart surgery in Bristol Children’s Hospital have referred to NHS issues as “disgusting”. Luke Jenkins (7) was submitted to Bristol Children’s Hospital having suffered a cardiac arrest; he died shortly after heart surgery in March 2012. Luke’s parents recently discovered that his death was not recorded […]

Playground cuts could cause more accidents

Posted: 3rd March 2014

Posted in: Public Place Accidents 

With a newly proposed plan to save money by reducing “weekend park duties” in Brighton and Hove, the GMB union has argued that this will greatly increase the number of accident and compensation claims made on behalf of injured children. Brighton and Hove City Council has already paid out £23,500 to children injured in its […]

19-month-old cut by H&M security tag

Posted: 27th February 2014

Posted in: Leg Injuries Public Place Accidents Shop Accidents 

The mother of a 19-month-old boy is furious after her son suffered a serious cut on his leg as a result of the security tag being left on his trousers purchased at H&M. Emma Lipscombe had been trying to dress her son in the newly purchased trousers when he began to scream in pain. The security […]

Call for improved safety for rail workers

Posted: 19th February 2014

Posted in: Public Transport Workplace Injuries Wrongful & Accidental Death 

Ten years after an accident that took the lives of four men working on a railway line, a rail union has called for the safety measures of workers to be improved. The Rail, Maritime & Transport (RMT) said that not enough improvements have been made to protect workers following the accident that happened a decade […]

NHS trust paid out £24.4m in last year alone

Posted: 9th February 2014

Posted in: Birth Injury Head and Brain Injuries Medical Negligence NHS Claims 

Oxfordshire’s hospital trust has paid out more than any other hospital authority due to ‘mistakes and blunders’ in 2013.  Figures have revealed that the trust has seen a surge in cases, having risen by 1,000 percent in less than a decade. When figures were first published in 2003/04, Oxfordshire paid out £2.3m to claimants, which […]