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Carrs Solicitors win £5,500 compensation for Stockport man injured at Work

May 2008

Mr Mike Malone a Fabricator Welder from Stockport has recently won personal injury compensation worth £5,500 following an accident at work involving the use of an angle grinder on a cutting job for which he had always maintained that an Oxy-Acetylene torch would have been more suitable.

Mr Malone initially was advised against pursuing a claim by another firm of personal injury solicitors before speaking to Carrs Solicitors who specialise in work related injury claims.

Carrs Solicitors took the case on under a No Win No Fee agreement and after applying to the High Court to restore Mr Malone's former employers to the Company Roll served court proceedings and set about securing the best engineering and lay witness evidence.

Legal liability was denied by the insurers and their solicitors on four occasions and Carrs Solicitors continued to gather evidence and pursue the case towards trial. Compensation offers eventually followed and were increased by 57% before the case settled out of court.

Speaking about the case Mr Malone said "I was extremely pleased by the way in which my case was handled, with every development explained in layman's terms. I was most impressed however by the amount of "homework" Carrs Solicitors put into the case regarding the use of angle grinders in the workplace. This is what won the case at the end of the day."

Carrs Solicitors win back injury compensation claim for claimant

Carrs Solicitors have recently recovered £7,250 in compensation for an accident at work which led to a back strain for a Senior Healthcare Assistant from Wallasey after the care home she worked for refused to negotiate until just weeks before the claim was due to go to trial.

The back injury was caused by the client having to support an elderly resident in order to prevent her from falling. The resident had not been re-assessed for manual handling purposes for several months and during this time her condition had deteriorated to the point that a hoist should have been provided.

When the accident was reported the care home failed to investigate it or to notify the Health and Safety Executive and original witnesses could not be traced. The Healthcare Worker appointed Carrs Solicitors because she wanted a firm of solicitors specialising in accident at work and workplace personal injury compensation claims.

Carrs Solicitors took the home to court on a no win no fee basis and succeeded in pressing for disclosure of the care records of the resident concerned under an exception to the Data Protection Act 1998. The care home decided to settle the case on the Health Care assistant's terms within two months of this.