Pavement
Pavements Injuries – Receive Compensation For Your Injuries
Un-gritted, icy pavements, pot holed pavements, jutting kerbs and uneven surfaces can lead to trips and falls, creating serious injuries – broken, bones, cuts and bruises; and worse: fatalities in some cases. If you or a loved one has suffered a fall from a dodgy pavement you may be entitled to some form of personal injury compensation.
Speak to a legal advisor today who will be able to assess your claim and start making progress towards a potential lump sum payment.
Tripped On Snow Or Ice?
During icy, snow periods thousands of people receive injuries from slips and falls on pavements.
Many will expect compensation from their local authorities for their injuries if they feel they resulted from the untreated nature of the pavement they fell on.
In many cases it will be the council’s Public Liability Insurance who will provide the compensation.
It does not matter whether you fell on an un-gritted pavement, a pot hole, an uneven pavement or some other form of dodgy surface you could receive personal injury compensation from the local authority where the accident occurred.
Pavement Compensation
Injuries caused by bad pavement trips are a very common type of personal injury compensation claim. Increasingly councils are being criticised for not maintaining pavements. Frequently people suffer bumps, cuts, bruises, broken limbs and facial injuries due to cracked or untreated pavements, leaving them unable to work in many cases for some time; and often depressed and angry. If you have been injured on a pavement and you feel it was down to no fault of your own you can make a personal injury compensation claim.
Compensation claims for personal injury following an accident on a pavement are often straightforward to process and can lead to substantial damages.
It can be relatively easy to document the injury and the cause of the injury and it is equally straightforward to identify whose responsibility the pavement is.
Councils should have Public Liability Insurance in place to pay for such claims and in some cases can pay up reasonably promptly, including reaching an early settlement with the victim.
Why not speak to a legal advisor now or fill out our easy online form and someone will get back to you soon. You could even be entitled to a no-win no fee.
A Personal Injury Bureau advisor will be glad to handle all aspects of your compensation case.
What You Can Do
Record as much evidence of the pavement and your injury as possible, including photographic evidence of the injury and the pavement area causing the accident. Make a note of contact details of any witnesses. Also, it will help your case if you have sought medical advice or attention so there is a medical record. Defects on council pavements are common. Although councils often do their best to repair such defects, you will be entitled to make a compensation claim if your injury was not your fault.
