“Slip and Trip” accidents cover a wide variety of accidents including tripping on pavements or over objects in the workplace, slipping on floors or perhaps on wet entrance steps.

Slip and Trip accidents can cause a range of injuries from cuts and bruises to broken bones. The injury and recovery period can be painful and slow. There are also the financial consequences to consider - for example lost earnings and treatment expenses. We recognise the emotional stress that injury can cause to you and your family. We will assist in keeping the impact upon you and your family to a minimum.

As with any personal injury claim, our expert personal injury lawyers will investigate your claim with a view to establishing that the other party (whether it be the Council or a company) were responsible for your accident. Our initial advice would be to immediately take photographs of the hazard that caused you to slip or trip, if indeed the hazard still exists.

Treating your injury quickly is of paramount importance. If you are seriously injured and you are off work, we would also consider making an early application for an interim payment which will ease the financial strain and enable you to obtain the treatment you need.

If you are successful in your claim, you will recover damages for pain, suffering and loss of amenity in addition to your financial losses, both past losses and foreseeable future losses.

For more information about this please contact Caroline Bird on cab@wdavies.com  or Andrew Cohen on aec@wdavies.com