Industrial Disease and Illness: Your Guide to Making a Claim Industrial diseases remain a serious issue in England and Wales, especially for workers in high-risk industries. If you or a loved one has developed an illness due to unsafe working conditions or exposure to harmful substances, you may be entitled to compensation. At Phoenix Legal, […]
Category Archives: Accident
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Jun
Jun
Protecting Your Rights After an Accident Every day, thousands of people take to the roads on foot, by bike, on motorcycles, or e-scooters — and too many suffer injury due to the carelessness of others. Our solicitors at Phoenix Legal are experts in supporting vulnerable road users who have been injured in road traffic accidents […]
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Jun
Jun
RTA Claims Over and Under £5,000 – Mixed Injuries, Compensation & Your Legal Options If you’ve been injured in a road traffic accident (RTA), your entitlement to compensation depends on the value and complexity of your injuries. Since 2021, major legal reforms have divided injury claims into two main categories: those under £5,000 and those […]
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Apr
Apr
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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Aug
Aug
When we seek medical treatment we all place a lot of trust in the experts we see. Most of the time, you will receive great care. However, mistakes can be made by medical professionals, sometimes with devastating and/or serious consequences. We’ve all heard the horror stories, know someone who knows someone who has suffered a […]