Pages On: Shop Accidents
Wherever you shop, business have a duty of care to customers. If a company has failed in this and caused you injury, be it from a slip, trip or fall, collapsing displays or any other accident, you could claim occupiers liability compensation. This is why it is of utmost importance that stores provide a safe environment and train staff in maintaining it.
Woman hospitalised after drinking Waitrose coffee containing cleaning fluid
Posted: 30 March 2014
Posted in: Food Poisoning, Public Place Accidents, Restaurant Accidents, Shop Accidents
A woman was rushed to hospital after she drank a free coffee offered to her by Waitrose that happened to contain cleaning fluid. The coffee was offered to the woman as part of the store’s membership card scheme; however, paramedics were quickly called when she began to feel ill. She was taken immediately from the East Sussex branch of the supermarket to the specialist burns unit in the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton. The woman spent hours in the hospital before feeling well enough to return home. The woman’s…
Read MoreMorrisons employee assaulted
Posted: 26 January 2014
Posted in: Arm Injury, Criminal Injury and Assault, Head and Brain Injuries, Neck Injuries, Public Place Accidents, Shop Accidents
45-year-old Ahmed Mohamud has made a unique personal injury compensation claim against the supermarket giant Morrisons after being “brutally assaulted” by a member of staff. The customer suffered severe head and neck injuries, as well as a fractured elbow, after being repeatedly kicked and punched by an attendant at the petrol kiosk. Adam Ohringer, his counsel, told London’s Appeal Court that the violence occurred in March 2008 when Mr Mohamud had stopped at a Small Health branch to check his car’s tyre pressure. During Mr Mohamud’s wait at the petrol station,…
Read MoreWoman dies after 80ft plunge in Primark
Posted: 23 October 2013
Posted in: Arm Injury, Leg Injuries, Public Place Accidents, Shop Accidents, Wrongful & Accidental Death
A woman, who remains unnamed, has died in hospital after falling 80ft (24m) from the third floor of popular clothing store Primark in Liverpool. The accident happened on Tuesday at around 18:00 BST, where she was found at the bottom of the store’s escalators on the ground floor of Church Street’s Primark. The woman had been spotted only moments before the incident near a balcony by the third-floor’s escalators. Believed to be in her late fifties, the woman was immediately treated by a doctor where she was found, but was pronounced dead…
Read More