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Trips and slips (tripping and slipping)
‘… these are not uncommon and very often result in broken bones and can have a profound impact on people’s lives’
You could suffer an injury due to a slip or a trip in many different circumstances. Your accident may have happened in a shop, a public place or on the street. It may have been caused by a pothole or a slippery or uneven surface. Accidents like these are not uncommon and very often result in broken bones and can have a profound impact on people's lives.
Public and private organisations owe a duty of care to ensure all visitors to their premises are safe. Local authorities are also under a duty to ensure that pavements and public highways are in a safe condition for public use. Occupiers usually carry insurance against injury from accident claims and, accordingly, it will be their insurance company that will pay any compensation awarded to you.
‘Public and private organisations owe a duty of care to ensure all visitors to their premises are safe’If it can be shown that someone has a responsibility to maintain the area in which your accident happened, and it can be shown that there was no system of inspection and maintenance, or that that system had failed, you should be able to make a claim.
If you do not recognise your own situation in this category, or indeed if you're not sure who was to blame, don't worry. If you've chosen a personal injury claims specialist who meets the ClaimsGuide recommended criteria, he will quickly be able to ascertain whether or not you have grounds for a claim and the type of injury claim you should be making. The rule is: if in doubt, ask.
If you’ve injured yourself by tripping or slipping, your best first action is to take a photograph of what caused it. Then report it, ideally in writing, to someone in authority associated with the premises or location
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