Newspapers and websites have been heavily publicizing the case of a mechanic who received £400,000 after injuring his hand on a knife left in a police vehicle.  The man, Alexander Darg, developed Complex Regional Pain Syndrome in the seven years after his accident, which left him unable to work.  He required stitches for the cut and also had to undergo a HIV test, which fortunately proved negative.When big compensation awards… read more

If you are travelling to warmer climes this summer for your holidays, odds are you will be travelling by plane.  The vast majority of plane journeys pass without incident; however, when things do go wrong, and people are injured, finding out whether you can make a compensation claim might not always be straightforward.  This is where a piece in the latest edition of the Busy Solicitors Digest may help to… read more

A slightly more unusual story in the press recently was that of the “toxic sofas” – leather upholstered furniture made in China using dangerous chemicals that left thousands of people in the UK with serious chemical burns.  Now a court case expected to cost retailers several millions of pounds is reaching its conclusion.  Big names such as Argos, Walmsleys and Land of Leather are implicated in the case, along with… read more

The creator of the Dreamspace inflatable artwork that killed two women when it broke free from its moorings in a park in Chester-Le-Street has been fined £10,000 for health and safety breaches.   Maurice Agis was convicted at Newcastle Crown Court of breaching the 1974 Health and Safety Act; however he was not convicted of manslaughter as the jury in the trial failed to reach a verdict.The inflatable artwork had been… read more

As I mentioned in Monday’s blog post, a recent fatal car crash on the Wirral, at a known accident blackspot only a few miles from the Camps offices has led to renewed calls for more action to be taken by councils and the highways agency to cut road deaths caused by poor road design.  The crash in question resulted in 5 fatalities, including a six-year old girl, 3 women aged… read more

In any accident, the sooner evidence is gathered, the stronger your claim will be.  This is no different for fatal road accidents; however in the immediate aftermath of a fatal accident where a family member has died, you might not feel up to collecting evidence to make a claim on their behalf.  At this difficult time a qualified road accident compensation solicitor can help take the burden of… read more

Any sort of fatal accident is always a delicate issue, and here at Camps Solicitors we understand that for the relatives of those killed in a road traffic accident, knowing that the deaths of their loved ones was someone’s fault can be particularly hard to accept.  Something else that might be hard to accept is the level of compensation paid out to the families of people whose relatives have been… read more