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A young boy who fell off a climbing frame onto a concrete surface in 2009 has won £7,500 in compensation from Suffolk County Council. Jamie Griffin, now 10, was using the climbing frame in the playground at Burton End Primary School in Haverhill when...
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A plater who suffered extensive damage to his hands as a result of continued use of vibrating tools has won damages of £12,000, the second time his employer has compensated him for work-related injury. The 54-year-old man had worked with vibrating...
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A young girl who suffered brain damage at birth has been awarded £5.6 million in compensation in a High Court settlement. The girl, now 11 years old, was starved of oxygen at birth. Her mother had a placental abruption, which is where the placenta has...
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A journalist whose skin was left scarred after she underwent a cosmetic procedure for a newspaper feature she was writing has won damages from a spa in London. Charlotte Cripps, an arts writer for the Independent, underwent Intense Pulsed Light treatment,...
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A grandmother who fractured her hip when she tripped on a Christmas tree decoration in Santa’s grotto in Selfridges in 2009 has won her claim for compensation after the Court of Appeal ruled that Father Christmas and his assistant should have made sure...
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A rider who was injured after being thrown from her horse has won compensation of £37,000. The accident happened in 2007 when Ceri Tonkinson was riding in Cosmeston Country Park, near Penarth in Wales. The horse she was riding had only recently been...
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A retired plumber who was diagnosed with mesothelioma after being exposed to asbestos at work has won £115,000 in damages. The man had worked almost exclusively for the same building firm between 1950 and the early 1970s. He was exposed to asbestos...
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After years of litigation, a young woman who suffered life-changing injuries when she was hit by a car as a child has been awarded a compensation settlement worth more than £9 million. Leigh Ann Blinkhorn, now 23, was seven years old when the accident...
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A man who was almost blinded after an accident at work has won an undisclosed amount in damages. Trevor Watson, 42, was working as a drainage engineer. He was instructed to take his truck to a hydraulic specialist because of a blockage in its jetting...
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An engineer who was seriously injured when he fell through a roof has won more than £164,000 in damages. The 66-year-old man worked for electronics and electrical engineering company Siemens. He was installing CCTV cameras at Liverpool Lime Street...
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A woman who lost a filling when she bit into an oven chip has won compensation from the manufacturer of the product. Susan Stapylton, 60, was eating Aunt Bessie’s oven chips. She bit into something solid and dislodged a filling in one of her wisdom...
