Pub Accident Compensation

Introduction to Pub Accident Compensation

An injury caused by a pub accident will ruin a good evening. Not only for the person who sustains the injury, but for everybody who is out with them. If the injury is seen to be due to the negligence of the pub manager or owner, the pub accident may damage his trade. Consequently claims for pub accident compensation where liability is not in doubt can often be settled quickly and quietly.

It is not only customers to a pub who can sustain an injury because of a pub accident. Consider the staff behind the counter and in the kitchens. There are plenty of opportunities for them to be hurt in a pub accident and, again, where the pub accident injury is due to the negligence of the pub manager or owner, they are equally entitled to make a pub accident compensation claim.

Typical Pub Accident Injuries

With plenty of alcohol flowing, the potential for a pub accident is vast. It is easy to spill a drink on the way back to your table from the bar, particularly if the pub is busy, and consequently easy for somebody to slip on the spillage and injure themselves. In pubs that serve food, the same risks of injury apply if any food spillage is not cleared away quickly and, at times when the pub trade is declining due to the smoking ban, furnishings are not being replaced so often and could collapse beneath you.

These types of physical injuries can result in broken bones, torn ligaments and neurological injuries if you hit your head during a fall, but there are also the risk of food poisoning and criminal injury if you accidently get involved in a fracas. A pub owner or manager has a responsibility to provide a safe venue for you to enjoy your evening out, and where he fails to do so, you are entitled to make a claim for pub accident compensation.

What to do After a Pub Accident Injury

Irrespective of the nature of your injury, your first consideration after a pub accident should be that of your health. It is inevitable that there will be witnesses to your injury – quite possibly who you know well and will support your pub accident compensation claim – so ask them if possible to take photographs of the scene of the accident while you seek medical attention at the accident and emergency department of your local hospital.

In the event that a food poisoning pub injury develops after several days, you should inform your local environmental health department, who will carry out an investigation to confirm the source of the food poisoning. This is essential if you want to make a claim for pub accident compensation, as is helping the police with their investigation if you have been injured due to criminal injury. In the latter instance, it would be advisable to have a pub accident compensation solicitor in attendance.

Pub Accident Compensation Solicitors

A pub accident compensation solicitor is a personal injury solicitor who has experience of dealing with the large companies who now seem to have a monopoly in the pub trade. These companies will have sizable legal teams, who will attempt to pay you off with an inadequate amount of pub accident compensation in relation to your injury.

An experienced pub accident compensation solicitor will know exactly how much your specific type of injury is “worth” and combine that with the other elements that make up a pub accident compensation claim – potential loss of earnings, out of pocket expenses, possible post traumatic stress disorder and other psychological injury. It is the solicitor´s job to prepare the strongest possible pub accident claim on your behalf and negotiate a fair and adequate pub accident compensation settlement.

No Win, No Fee Pub Accident Compensation

With the volume of legal work that is required to make a successful pub accident compensation claim, you may be reluctant to approach a solicitor after being injured in a pub accident which was not your fault due to the potential cost. By engaging a “No Win, No Fee” solicitor, you will not have to spend a penny in pursuit of your pub accident compensation claim as all the legal fees are absorbed by your legal representatives.

Therefore, if you have been injured in a pub accident for which you were not wholly to blame, or work in a pub in which you have sustained an injury, you should speak direct with an experienced solicitor, discuss the circumstances surrounding your pub accident and establish whether you have a pub accident compensation claim is worth your while to pursue.