Slipping & Tripping

Tripping or slipping accidents are very common. Accidents will always happen and we don’t live in a perfect world where the weather conditions are consistent or where every part of the road or pavement can be completely even and smooth or where a shop can 100% guarantee that there won’t be a hazard at all times.

However, there are many instances where a Local Authority, supermarket or workplace don’t properly comply with their legal duties and the result to you is a nasty fall and painful injury.

In this event, we  help by using our vast experience of slip or trip claims to compile the evidence needed to successfully win your claim with the best available financial settlement and to get you the medical support you need to speed up your recovery.

Our job is to ensure that we achieve these goals not only as quickly as possible but with minimum stress for you at a time when you have suffered already.

Common types of slipping and tripping accidents are :-

• Accidents in supermarkets – in the busy food shopping world, may items are loose, picked up, dropped or knocked off shelves leading to broken items and liquid hazards. In the hustle and bustle, whilst pushing a trolley or looking for your items, you may have slipped or tripped. Whilst most supermarkets now have regular hazard patrols, these may be insufficient both in regularity or competence and we are experts in pursuing a negligence claim for this type of accident on a no win no fee basis for you.

• Uneven pavements or road surfaces – Most roads are the responsibility, in legal terms, of the local authority who are obliged to ensure that pavements are in satisfactory condition to avoid accidents. This is not an easy task for the local authority and rapid changes in weather can also lead to cracks, uneven surfaces or potholes appearing quite rapidly. If you have slipped or tripped on an uneven surface it may well be that the defect should have been spotted and fixed by the local authority. We will rapidly investigate and advise you of the prospects for a claim and may well be able to offer you no win no fee terms.

• Accidents in offices – Offices are busy places and in most offices nowadays there are many cables, wires, computers, phone and other appliances which can all potentially be tripping hazards. Your employer has a duty to safeguard you from accidents at work and also a duty to non-employee visitors. The employer should also have paperwork detailing it’s policies and actions to keep the work environment safe and an accident book which records any accidents which may have occurred. These items or the lack of them may well be relevant to the prospects of success for a claim if you have tripped or slipped at work. We can rapidly advise you on the prospects of a trip or slip claim of this kind.