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Christopher Kaye, 57, has recently received a £4.2 million payout after he suffered personal injury in a work accident. At the time of the incident, Mr Kaye was working as a demolition worker for Euro Dismantling Services Ltd. He was replacing an excavator attachment when he was hit in the face by a metal bar that had become dislodged. Following the accident, Mr Kaye was rushed to Sheffield Hospital where he underwent a life saving operation, but the injuries to his brain were so sever....

Donna Taylor is pursuing a pothole claim for compensation after her daughter sustained injuries when she tripped on the road. Ms Taylor’s daughter suffered bruising and swelling as a result of the fall caused by a pothole in the road. Ms Taylor insisted that South Tyneside Council had been previously warned about the danger of up to eight potholes in the road, but had failed to do anything about it. Ms Taylor is now launching a legal action against the council on behalf of her daughter....

A couple have been awarded a five-figure medical negligence payout after surgeons forgot to remove a breathing tube which was inserted into their new born baby son. When Owen Thomas was born in February 2007, one of his shoulders became stuck during his birth, and he wasn’t breathing. As a result surgeons inserted a breathing tube to save his life. A week later, the baby coughed up the tube which had been left inside him following the oversight by hospital staff. The couple won their c....

A 40-year-old woman golfer has been awarded £7,500 in personal injury compensation after sustaining severe injuries whilst leaving a golf course in Staffordshire. Burton-upon-Trent Magistrates' Court heard how the woman was walking along a footpath towards the car park of the golf club when she was hit in the face by a golf ball which had been hit from the club's driving range. The accident left the woman with several broken teeth, serious facial lacerations and bruising. She was taken to ....

A High Court has awarded substantial compensation to a 28 year old man following a motorcycle accident in 2005 which almost cost him his life. David Scott Buchan suffered facial and brain injuries in the incident when his motorcycle collided with an oncoming car. As a result of the accident, Mr Buchan needed a titanium plate inserted into his face.  He also sustained damage to his ribs and spine, and suffered long term depression, fatigue, anxiety along with impaired sight, taste, and sm....

Margaret Peabody has won over £100,000 in compensation following a routine hip operation that went wrong and left her permanently disabled. Mrs Peabody, 51, was suffering from painful osteoarthritis and, in 2008, underwent an operation at the St Cross Hospital in Rugby to resurface her hip. She was told beforehand that it was a simple procedure which the surgeon had performed thousands of times before. After the operation, the surgeon admitted that he had accidentally cut through her n....

A 38 year old construction worker who was seriously injured in a fall at work has secured a compensation package worth millions of pounds. The construction worker was working for Laing O’Rourke Construction Ltd. at a hospital in Newcastle. A scaffolding platform was unsecured and he fell 80 feet, shattering his legs and suffering life-changing head injuries. It is believed that the fact that he was working at a hospital may have saved his life as doctors were on hand to give him immediat....

The Telegraph has recently reported how 8000 patients have been killed, in the last 13 years, due to medical blunders by NHS medical professionals. It was reported that the number of NHS claims have risen by 300% in recent years with figures of 223 deaths in 1997-1998 up by an astonishing 903 in 2009-2010. Experts are suggesting that the number of patients who have died as a result of medical negligence in the NHS is actually higher than 8000 but many families will not have pursued legal action.....

Mr Hou Chun Lin is making a claim against Peterborough NHS Trust after medical blunders led to his daughter having to have both legs amputated. Mr Lin, who speaks very little English, says that he pleaded with a doctor to admit his baby daughter Miki Lin Gao to hospital in February 2006 but was told to go home and give her paracetemol. Mr Lin took his 10 month old daughter to see the family GP on February 16th 2006 because she was suffering from a cough and a cold. Over the next week her conditi....

Recent figures  released have revealed that Bedfordshire Police has paid £45,894 to staff for personal injuries sustained while at work since 2006. £10,000 compensation was paid to one female crime officer who hit her head after the back of her chair snapped. The incident, involving the officer, happened in 2003 but the case was not closed or money paid out until 2007. Another police officer received £5,000 personal injury compensation after the officer was injured fol....