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Browell Smith
& Co Solicitors
26 Market Place,
Durham
DH1 3NJ
Tel: 0871 474
3030
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Our expert Personal
Injury team is equipped to provide specialist advice on every type
of compensation claim ranging from road traffic accidents to all
forms of industrial disease claims. We are recognised by the Legal
500 and Chambers Legal Directory as one of the UK's leading personal
injury practices, with a number of solicitors being members of the
Law Society Personal Injury Panel.
We cover accidents
in the workplace, RTAs (driver/passenger/ pedestrian, motorcyclist/cyclist),
amputation, brain and head injury claims, child injury claims, claims
against other solicitors who are at fault, carbon monoxide or food
poisoning as well as trips/slips and falls.
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ILS Solicitors
Whitfield House
St John’s Road
Meadowfield
Durham
DH7 8XL
Tel: 0191 378
2030
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Had a slip,
trip or fall and wondering about compensation?
There are two
main types of accident outside the workplace:
Accidents in the street
Your local council
is responsible for keeping roads and pavements maintained and in
a reasonable condition. The council can only avoid blame if they
can prove that the street in question was inspected in accordance
with the relevant guidelines. The frequency they have to inspect
varies depending upon the location of the accident.
Accidents in other areas
If you enter
a public place e.g. a supermarket, bank etc, the owners of that
building have a duty to ensure that you are safe whilst on their
property. This includes ensuring that the building and fixtures
and fittings are in a good state of repair and that any hazards,
for example a spillage, are cleaned up so as not to cause an accident.
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Freeman Johnson
Solicitors,
11 Victoria Road
Darlington
County Durham
DL1 5SP
Tel: 01325 466221
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We
are experienced in pursuing cases for clients involved in accidents
on the road or at work, affected by industrial diseases such as Vibration
White Finger and Asbestosis or by stress, victims of criminal injuries
such as assault and those affected by medical negligence. We can also
bring claims against the Motor Insurers' Bureau, if you have been
injured by an uninsured or untraced driver. Most cases are settled
without proceeding to Court, and most claims are paid by insurance
companies on behalf of the opposing party. Criminal injury claims
can be made, under special legal rules, against the Criminal Injuries
Compensation Authority, a government body.
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