Case Studies:
Serious Injury
Date: 23/02/2012
Name: Miss S
Location: Notts
Miss S of Retford, Notts, secured significant damages following a motorcycling accident. Miss S was riding pillion in an accident in which the rider of the motorbike was killed. The motorbike struck a car at high speed after the vehicle had emerged from a minor road.
Date: 27/01/2012
Name: Mr Hay
Location: Rotherham
Mr Hay from Rotherham sustained a troublesome fracture to his right wrist as a result of a fall on ice in a city centre. He had been told by his former Solicitors that his claim had less than reasonable prospects of success. This was despite the former Solicitors asking Mr Hay to pay for medical records and notes.
Date: 27/01/2012
Name: Mr H
Location: Nottingham
Mr H of Creswell, Notts, sustained multiple fractures to his left arm as a result of a defective bailing machine.
Date: 27/01/2012
Name: Mr Whale
Location: Rotherham
ASD Solicitors helped Mr Whale recover compensation following an accident at a local pub.
Mr Whale, from Rotherham, slipped and fell on ice immediately outside the main exit to the pub.
Date: 27/01/2012
Name: Mr B
Location: Rotherham
Mr B, from Rotherham, recovered a substantial amount of compensation following an accident at work. The client had the misfortune to lose his right arm as a result of operating a defective scrap metal machine. The machine should have been fitted with guards.
Date: 27/01/2012
Name: Mr K
Mr K was involved in an accident at work whilst delivering incorrectly loaded and packaged stock to a supermarket, resulting in soft tissue injuries to his lower back.
Date: 27/01/2012
Name: Mr R
Location: Sheffield
Award: £168,000
ASD Solicitors assisted a labourer to obtain compensation after his left arm was trapped in a machine at work and then subsequently amputated.
The client suffered a traumatic amputation of the left arm after being asked to clean a large, cylindrical roller at his place of employment.
Date: 27/01/2012
Location: Rotherham
Award: £2.5 million
Richard Meggitt, Solicitor in the Serious Injury Team at ASD, acted for a child in Rotherham who sustained a serious brain injury.
The child was struck by a car when he was returning home from school. He was taken to Sheffield Children's Hospital by ambulance and was an inpatient for a number of weeks.
