Just imagine the situation, you’re tucking in to a meal, or snacking on a chocolate bar, and you get an agonising pain as your teeth hit something hard that you didn’t expect to be there. Well a few years ago at Camps Solicitors one of our own employees suffered just this sort of injury when she bit into a jagged piece of plastic that had been embedded into her Nestle Smarties chocolate bar. This incident caused her to suffer an injury to her jaw, and she decided to make a compensation claim against the chocolate manufacturer.
In the UK we are fortunate to have some of the most stringent food safety regulations anywhere in the world, and incidents of injuries caused by unsafe foodstuffs are comparatively rare. However this does not mean that such cases are unheard of, indeed recent cases have included the discovery of salmonella in several popular brands of sweets, or even outbreaks of food poisoning at holiday resorts both in this country and abroad.
Where foodstuffs fail to live up to the expected standards, then you might be able to claim compensation for any injuries you have suffered. These injuries can include common complaints such as food poisoning, but also more serious internal injuries caused by the presence of chemicals, contamination or foreign bodies in your food. If your injuries were severe enough to require a stay in hospital, it is likely that you have a claim that could be taken on by a personal injury solicitor.
Camps Solicitors have been handling compensation claims for injured people for over 25 years, and in that time we have helped hundreds of our clients to claim compensation after they have suffered illness or injury caused by unsafe food products. Our solicitors have the legal expertise to handle even the most complex food poisoning and unsafe food products compensation claims, and have made claims in the past against restaurants, takeaways, supermarkets and the food manufacturers themselves.
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