Phoenix Legal Solicitors are pursuing compensation claims for victims of the New Ferry gas explosion. The incident caused: injury to around 80 people, made 78 individuals immediately homeless, damaged residential properties, and forced the closure of 28 businesses. What caused the New Ferry gas explosion? The cause of the explosion was attributed to a local […]
Category Archives: Accident
26
Oct
Oct
We have recently settled a claim on behalf of Mr M who was injured at work when he was assisting with the offloading of items by a fork lift when one of the items being offloaded slid off the forklift and hit him causing a soft tissue injury to his left shoulder and right thigh. […]
14
Oct
Oct
Phoenix Legal have settled a claim in the sum of £10,000 for a child injured whilst at Nursery when she fell and suffered a 3cm laceration to her forehead above her left eyebrow. Bella was allegedly running in nursery (which we would say is normal behaviour for a child at nursery) when she fell and […]
17
Aug
Aug
Our client came to us in October 2020, following an accident at work in October 2019 when she was a carer visiting a service user at their home. Unfortunately, the only way in/out of the service user’s home was via an unsafe, slippery make-shift ramp. Our client slipped and fell on the ramp, spraining her […]
26
Apr
Apr
On 13 November 2018, Manchester Magistrates Court heard that a Northwest company that manufactures soft furnishings has been fined after an employee has sustained serious injuries whilst working on an automatic duvet rolling machine. One of the employees using the machine was not authorised to operate it or trained in its use. Whilst the employee […]
05
Apr
Apr
It has been reported by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE)* that on 21 August 2020, at Folkestone Magistrates Court, a farmer was sentenced after a worker suffered multiple injuries after becoming entangled in the contra-rotating rollers of a potato harvester. The worker was pulled leg first into the machine resulting in burns to his […]
02
Nov
Nov
On 24 October 2019, Alisha Butler and Mariam Bibi attended a meeting at Windsor House in New Ferry to give advice to residents on claiming compensation, following the prosecution of Pascal Blasio for causing the explosion in March 2017. On 23 October 2019, Pascal Blasio was given 28 years in total for causing the explosion […]
08
Sep
Sep
Car component manufacturer fined £1 million after workers suffer burns Delphi Diesel Systems Limited, a commercial vehicle and car component manufacturer, was fined after two workers suffered significant burns. On 11 July 2017, two company employees were burned by flammable chemical vapour. The chemical, used to clean the distillation tank part of a component washer, […]
07
Jun
Jun
NHS nurse staged ‘crash for cash’ scam to receive claim compensation. The term ‘crash for cash’ refers to people deliberately crashing into other vehicles or submitting false accident claims, says RAC. Their goal is to receive as much money as possible from the fraud. These scammers do not only receive money they are not entitled […]
04
Jun
Jun
Grandmother had all four limbs amputated after contracting sepsis. Sepsis can often develop from the smallest of things. A simple paper cut can result in infection and could lead to amputation. In 2018, 54-year-old’s Marguerite Henderson from Fife, Scotland contracted sepsis from a paper cut, reported the Mirror. On 25 February 2018, the 54-year-old cut […]
- 1
- 2