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Category: ‘Personal injury’
Headway’s Action for Brain Injury Week
17-May-2012 (0 comments)
We’re proud to be members of Headway’s personal injury solicitors list. Headway is the national charity dedicated to providing help and support to people affected by brain injury. Headway’s ‘Action for Brain Injury Week’ runs from 14 to 20 May 2012. This initiative aims to raise awareness of the vital work they do in supporting brain injury survivors and their families, including rehabilitation, social re-integration, community outreach and respite care….
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Personal & Medical Injuries Team Expands
08-Feb-2011 (0 comments)
The Personal & Medical Injuries Team at Barcan Woodward Solicitors is pleased to announce that Adrian Stone, previously a partner at Metcalfes Solicitors, is joining the team on 21st February 2011. Adrian, who qualified as a solicitor in 1986, is a personal injury law specialist and joins the team to undertake complex injury cases. Partner Marina Van Vessem, who heads the Personal Injury Team, says of the appointment “We are…
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Team from Barcan Woodward listed in Legal 500
22-Oct-2010 (0 comments)
The Clinical Negligence & Personal Injury team at Barcan Woodward Solicitors in Bristol has been listed within the 2010 edition of the Legal 500 Series in recognition of their superior expertise and service for claimants in both areas. The latest edition of the Legal 500 Series was published on 9th September 2010 and provides a comprehensive independent assessment of legal service providers. The editorial teams research the industry obtaining feedback…
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Simplified Road Traffic Accident Claims
26-May-2010 (0 comments)
The Department of Transport statistics for road traffic accidents show that 302,605 people within Great Britain were killed or seriously injured as a result of a road traffic accident during 2002. A new process for handling personal injury claims as a result of road traffic accidents came into force on 30 April 2010 and is aimed at streamlining the process for smaller claims which is good news for everyone. Amie…
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Are you covered? Before the Event Legal Expenses Insurance
09-Nov-2008 (0 comments)
Tucked away in a drawer somewhere you may have the insurance equivalent of an inflatable life jacket. It is the sort of insurance you would like to think you are never going to need but if you have it in times of a legal crisis, it could keep you afloat in the white waters of litigation. Legal Expenses Insurance is often part of the Home Insurance Policy (either included in…
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Williams V Jervis [2008]EWHC 2346 (QB)
08-Oct-2008 (0 comments)
Court awards £511,903 in compensation to Claimant who suffered a mild head injury, in addition to further injuries including a vestibular lesion, as a result of a relatively low speed rear end shunt road traffic accident. This case was one of the few cases where the controversial area of mild head injury has been tested in the courts.
Whiplash Injury results in damages of £1.85 million
20-Aug-2008 (0 comments)
Believed highest award recovered in England for whiplash injury.We recovered £1.85 million for our client in this case, who was 44 years old at the time of her road traffic accident. Her injuries caused intrusive neck and back pain, vestibular dysfunction causing nausea, dizziness and cognitive problems, and fatigue. The Claimant consulted us after she was dissatisfied at the way the firm she had originally instructed were handling her claim. We took it…
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