Neil was working as a vehicle recovery operator in an operation to recover an overturned lorry. The lorry was full of heavy wooden beams which had to be removed before the lorry could be up righted. The beams were removed with a hoist, during one of the hoists, several beams slipped out and struck Neil. Neil sustained five fractures to his pelvis, associated urological injuries and depression.
His employer who was in charge of the operation had failed to properly secure the wooden beams in the hoist.
How we helped Neil
We intimated Neil's claim directly to his employers, who passed the matter to their insurers. His employers' insurers while accepting primary liability for the accident, argued that Neil was partly to blame. On Neil's behalf we vigorously contested this. Because of Neil's multiple injuries we required to instruct eight different reports from experts/Consultants as follows:-
- Orthopaedic
- Urological
- Pain management
- Psychiatric
- Rehabilitation/care needs
- Occupational therapy
- Vocational, and;
- Pension loss
We then instructed Counsel on Neil's behalf. As a settlement could not be agreed we raised a court action on Neil's behalf. We progressed the court action to a settlement.
Settlement
A settlement of £564,000 was agreed.
Testimonial
Neil said "I am very pleased with the way Lindsays dealt with my claim, and for instructing the correct experts to provide reports in order to work out the full value of my claim. The claim took some time to resolve. Along the way Lindsays arranged for me to get a number of down payments of compensation which was very helpful. I was happy with the amount of compensation recovered on my behalf."
