What’s My Claim Worth settled a claim for Mr D, a 44 year old man from Bradford who slipped and fell on a wet floor in a DIY shop. As a result of falling Mr D sustained soft tissue injury to his leg, back and shoulder. He reported the accident to the store but did not attend hospital or his GP for treatment as the accident occurred during the Covid pandemic. A claim was brought against the store for their negligence and also for breaching Section 2 of the Occupiers Liability Act 1957. This defines the common duty of care that an occupier of premises owes to all visitors. The common duty of care is to take such care as in all the circumstances as is reasonable to see that the visitor will be reasonably safe in using the premises for the purposes for which they are invited or permitted by the occupier to be there. The store via their insurance company denied liability (responsibility) for the accident. Despite this the team at What’s My Claim Worth proceeded with the claim and obtained medical evidence from an independent General Practitioner and Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon. They also arranged and paid for Mr D to have private MRI scans. As liability continued to be denied, the solicitor prepared the claim to commence court proceedings but before issuing the claim at court a complete set of the medical evidence was sent to the Defendant’s Insurers inviting them to reconsider and make an offer of settlement. We were very happy when they agreed and the claim settled for £2000.00. The amount of the settlement took into account the risk of litigation, i.e. the risk of proceeding to a Trial and losing, and also the issue of contributory negligence, i.e. that Mr D may have been found partly at fault for his accident.
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