Case studies

• £9 million in damages secured for road accident victim with life-changing spinal injury
  We have recently achieved a negotiated settlement for a client in his early thirties, who was catastrophically injured while out cycling with his fiancée.
• Man receives settlement for head injuries sustained in accident on pedestrian crossing
  Penningtons' personal injury team recently secured damages for a claimant who suffered a head injury and various fractures when he was knocked over by a motorcyclist at a pedestrian crossing.
• Settlement of head injury claim for pedestrian hit by a car
  We recovered substantial damages for a client who suffered a head injury when hit by a car.
• Compensation for recovery patrolman injured on motorway hard shoulder
  Our personal injury team recently secured a sum of £32,500 for a recovery patrolman who was injured while attending a member breakdown on the hard shoulder of a motorway.
• Settlement of more than £1.1 million for driver of car involved in fatal collision with skip lorry
  We settled a claim for over £1.1 million, plus legal costs, for our client who suffered catastrophic spinal injuries in a road traffic accident in July 2008.
• Moped rider who suffered lower limb amputation as a result of a road traffic accident wins compensation
  We have recently negotiated the settlement of a claim for a client in his 70s who suffered a below knee amputation as a result of a road traffic accident.
• Compensation for driver who suffered serious head injuries in collision
  We settled a personal injury claim for a part-time physiotherapist and sheep farmer involved in a road accident in Wales in 2013.
• Motorcyclist injured in collision with van driver wins £50,000 in damages
  We successfully concluded a claim on behalf of a male motorcyclist who was injured after a van driver reversed into his path and collided with him as he was travelling along a main road.
• Substantial settlement for young man severely brain injured after car accident
  Our client was 19 years old when he was involved in a road traffic accident in which he was the front seat passenger in a car driven by a friend.
• Compensation for woman hit by drunk driver
  We recently achieved a settlement of £500,000 compensation for a female client who was seriously injured in a road traffic accident.
• 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.
• Representing bereaved fiancée of hit and run victim
  Our team recently settled a claim for Elizabeth Boyd in relation to the loss of her fiancé, Trevor Bird, who was killed in November 2008 by a hit and run driver who fled the scene.
• Dependency claim brought by family of grandfather who died in a road accident
  Our personal injury specialists secured damages for a family following the death of an 89 year old grandfather who was killed in a road traffic collision.
• Substantial settlement for family following fatal road traffic accident
  We reached a settlement on behalf of the widow and young daughter of a 41 year old man, who was tragically killed in a head-on RTA in 2007.
• Six figure award for motorcyclist hit by a van
  We recently obtained compensation for a motorcyclist who suffered a fractured wrist and foot in a road accident.
• Damages for elderly woman who sustained a serious leg injury while her husband was driving
  Our client, a woman in her late seventies, suffered a serious injury to her tibia resulting in prolonged non-union after being injured in a car collision caused by her husband.
• Two daughters injured by driver while cycling with their father
  We were able to secure more than £40,000 in damages for two girls injured after a driver lost control of her vehicle on a country lane and collided with them as they cycled with their father.
• Damages for cyclist’s pelvic and psychological injuries due to actions of another cyclist
  We secured damages for a cyclist badly injured as a result of another cyclist’s negligence. The claimant, an experienced cyclist, had been out on his road bike when another cyclist coming in the opposite direction went into a corner on the wrong side of the road.
• Substantial settlement for young man injured in head-on collision
  We achieved a substantial settlement for a client who suffered hip and psychological injuries in a traumatic head-on collision which took place in November 2013.
• Compensation secured from MIB for London cyclist injured by uninsured driver
  Our client was cycling along a busy road when he noticed a vehicle approaching from the opposite direction, in the right hand lane. As he continued to cycle along the road he was suddenly knocked off his bicycle.

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