Accidents
All workplaces and occupations are potentially hazardous, and the law puts a duty of care on employers to assess those hazards and to take steps to eliminate or minimise the risk that their employees may be injured. If you are injured as a result of your employer's failure of duty, you are entitled to claim work injury compensation.
To succeed with your work injury claim you must prove:-
- That you are an employee of the person or company by whom you were injured. Not as easy as it might seem nowadays in view of the increasing numbers of agency workers.
- What your injury is. This may be complicated if the accident has aggravated a pre-existing medical problem rather than causing an entirely new condition.
- What the breach of duty was.
- That the breach of duty caused the injury.
- What your financial losses have been and are likely to be in the future.
You must assert your claim by legal proceedings brought within 3 years of the date of the accident.
We have experience of a very wide range of workplace accident claims, from those of modest value to those in which catastrophic injuries have been suffered, and in all types of occupations. See our success stories for examples of our recent cases.