Case studies

• £9,000 claim settlement for yoga student following negligent instruction
  Penningtons personal injury team recently recovered damages in the sum of £9,000 for a young female client who sustained a back injury as a result of negligent instruction by a teacher in a yoga class.
• Settlement for elderly woman who tripped on car park drain cover
  We recently secured £13,825 in damages for an elderly client who sustained injury as a result of tripping on a depression where a drain cover was sited in a car park of a private premises.
• Pub customer awarded compensation for injuries caused by fall on icy car park
  Our personal injury team acted on behalf of a young man who sustained injuries as a result of slipping on an untreated icy car park when leaving a public house late one evening.
• Pedestrian hit by falling metal hoarding wins damages
  We recently secured damages for a pedestrian who sustained injury while walking past a building site.
• Damages for victim of early morning collision potentially contributed to by farming contractor
  We won substantial damages for a driver after he was seriously injured in a fatal road traffic accident in November 2007 which killed one person and seriously injured several others.
• Lights out at cinema exit lead to compensation for injuries
  Our client was at a well known cinema complex one afternoon and, after the screening of the film finished, she began to make her way out of the cinema. However, the screen lighting needed to allow visitors to exit safely failed to come on and the area was very dark.
• Claim for brain-injured road accident victim against garage which repaired her car
  Our client was involved in a head-on collision in which she sustained a very severe traumatic brain injury and spent several months in a coma.
• Settlement for lady who tripped over broken paving stone
  Our elderly client tripped over a defective and broken paving stone when walking along a busy high street. She fell forwards landing on her dominant right arm and sustained a nasty fracture and a shoulder injury.
• Successful claim against hotel chain
  Our client, a hotel guest, was walking through a North London hotel car park at night when she tripped over a lowered parking bollard which was camouflaged by the paving stones.
• Settlement for elderly woman injured in hotel room
  Our client was an elderly lady who had been holidaying in Devon. On the day of her departure, she emptied her wardrobe and as she did so the wardrobe, which had been placed in an unstable position before her arrival, toppled over.

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