If you have been injured at work or you have been injured on business premises, then you may be eligible for financial compensation.
Making a claim against your employer or past employer
Employers have a legal duty to protect the health, safety and welfare of their employees at work. this extends to contractors and the self-employed. If it can be proven that health and safety breaches contributed to your accident, then you will have a strong claim.
If you believe that your injury at work was a direct result of poor health and safety policy, then you should seek legal advice from a law firm, such as https://ukclaimlawyers.co.uk/.
After receipt of sound legal advice, you may choose to make a claim. If that is the case, it is important to keep in mind that nobody is guaranteed compensation. However, the law is on your side if your accident was wholly or partly your employer’s fault. The law is also on your side if another employee’s actions caused your accident.
Making a claim if you have been injured in a business’s premises
If you have been injured on company premises while not in a professional role, such as if you were shopping at the time of your accident, then you can make a claim for compensation, providing that you have a level of diminished liability and providing that it can be proven that the company in question failed in their duty to protect you.
To bring a claim forward under the circumstances, you should determine who your claim will be with. For example, if you have been injured in a high street store, it may not actually be the ‘brand’s’ responsibility – it may be the landlords, if the property is rented. Or, the brand and the landlord may share some responsibility.
Eligibility requirements for making a claim
In all personal injury claims, two things must be apparent:
- Your Date of Limitation: Your accident must have happened within the last three years, or the date your injuries first became clear must be within the last three years; after three years, personal injury cases become statute-barred. So it is imperative that you bring your claim forward sooner rather than later;
- Yourself having a level of diminished liability: You cannot be 100 per cent responsible for the accident which caused your injuries. You have to have a level of diminished liability. You can however still make a claim if you were partly responsible for your accident, although you will receive a lesser amount of compensation.
To find out more about making a claim against a company, contact a reputable law firm that offers free legal advice without obligation.