by Philippa Carroll | Case Studies, Personal Injury, Personal Injury Team
By Alastair Chiswell, Solicitor Apprentice In 2021 the UK government brought in the new Whiplash Injury Regulations. These regulations set how much compensation you’re due if you suffer whiplash as a result of a road traffic accident, with the compensation scaling...
by McHale Solicitors | Case Studies, Cyclists, News, Personal Injury Team
By Fergus Dalgarno, Head of Motorcycle Team Filtering accident cases are notorious for settling poorly: the other parties are always going to argue contributory negligence; they’re always going to try to blame the bike rider in some way to lower their own payout. With...
by Philippa Carroll | Case Studies, Personal Injury, Personal Injury Team
Nimish Patel, our Head of Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence recently settled a claim where there was a significant delay in diagnosing the tumour. Renal cancers typically grow at 0.35cm per year. The Claimant’s lesion was 5cm before it was identified. An earlier...
by McHale Solicitors | Case Studies, Personal Injury Team
Malcolm, our Senior Personal Injury Solicitor, and Adam, our Managing Director, recently acted for a client who was involved in a tripping accident near to her house in 2023. The local council initially denied liability stating that the council had regularly inspected...
by Philippa Carroll | News, Personal Injury Team
This morning BBC news reported that the Parliamentary Health and Safety Ombudsman (PHSO) has warned that doctors repeated failures to carry out, correctly interpret or properly follow up CTs, X-rays and other medical scans are resulting in cancer-diagnosis delays and...
by Philippa Carroll | Case Studies, Personal Injury, Personal Injury Team
Alastair Chiswell recently acted for a passenger on a Metrolink after a car collided with the tram causing his client to fall over and sustain injuries. Even though the accident occurred in place where the tramline converged with the normal road, Alastair was able to...
