2009 May | Personal Injury Blog

29.05.2009

Fresh warnings from road safety charity over insurance companies

Posted by Neil Worrall

A national news story that involves Camps has been featured on BBC radio recently, after we reported an insurance company that had been harassing several of our clients with its underhanded tactics. Road safety charity BRAKE has voiced its concern that insurance companies are pushing accident victims to settle their claims far too quickly – often within hours of their accident, before they have had time to take stock of… read more

28.05.2009

Government urged to rethink new motorcycle driving test after accidents

Posted by Neil Worrall

Driving instructors have been calling on the government and the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) to rethink part of the new motorcycle test following a number of accidents. The so called “swerve test” has been blamed for several crashes during tests, in one case leaving a learner motorcyclist with broken bones after they came off their bike. The test is designed to simulate a manoeuvre to avoid an obstacle or hazard in… read more

27.05.2009

Sporting injuries – When a bad tackle can end a career

Posted by Neil Worrall

Recovering compensation for professional and semi-professional sportsmen and women can be a complex process. I recently read a very interesting case write up from 2008 concerning a young man with a promising career ahead of him in top-flight football, who, as the result of a horrific tackle, was left unable to continue his career.The young footballer in the article had been a member of Manchester United’s Youth academy and had… read more

26.05.2009

Playground injury victim successfully appeals against court decision

Posted by Neil Worrall

Here is a summary of an interesting case in the national press recently involving a boy who received an eye injury in an accident at lunchtime on a school playground. The boy’s family successfully appealed against a court ruling that his school were not liable for his injury, even though they only had 1 member of staff supervising around 300 children on the playground. The boy had been playing with… read more

22.05.2009

Noise at work – it‘s a pig!

Posted by Neil Worrall

Life out in the country isn’t always as quiet as you might expect, at least according to the latest advice from the Health and Safety Executive, who have released a new leaflet ‘Farmwise - Your Essential Guide to Health and Safety in Agriculture’. This new leaflet, aimed at farmers and people who work with livestock, highlights the risks from animal noise that can lead to hearing damage.The new leaflet advises… read more

21.05.2009

Noise at work – symptoms of industrial deafness

Posted by Neil Worrall

Do you often come home from work and find you are turning up the TV or Radio, or do your find that you are struggling to hear what other family members or friends are saying? If experiences like these are an everyday occurrence, then you might be suffering from some form of work-related hearing loss, commonly known as industrial deafness. Today on the Camps blog I am going to look… read more

20.05.2009

Noise at work – what are the limits?

Posted by Neil Worrall

Industrial deafness, or work-related hearing loss as it is sometimes known, occurs when employees are exposed to noise at a level that damages their hearing, without being given the proper protection, such as ear defenders, to prevent this damage. A common misconception that people have about hearing loss is that it only affects workers in heavy industry, such as factory and construction workers. However any employee exposed to noise above… read more

Archive for May, 2009

Fresh warnings from road safety charity over insurance companies

Government urged to rethink new motorcycle driving test after accidents

Sporting injuries – When a bad tackle can end a career

Playground injury victim successfully appeals against court decision

Noise at work – it‘s a pig!

Noise at work – symptoms of industrial deafness

Noise at work – what are the limits?