Archive for June, 2010

In the personal injury compensation case of Tomasz Krysztof Kmiecic v Nadia France Isaacs decided on 12th March 2010 a householder was found not liable under statutory regulations or in negligence when a casual worker fell and sustained injury at her property.

The claimant claimed damages for personal injury after falling from a ladder while trying to repair a leaky garage roof at the defendant’s home.  The defendant prohibited the claimant from gaining access to the roof by the window in her son’s bedroom as she did not want him to walk through the house on the white carpets.  Subsequently it was decided he should use a step ladder that was in the garage, but it was too short and whilst climbing the ladder, it slipped and the claimant fell sustaining injury.

A car mechanic, who injured two of his fingers while repairing a police car, recently won around £400,000 in personal injury compensation from the Metropolitan police.  Alexander Darg had claimed in the region of £1M in compensation after lacerating himself on a knife which was stuck down the driver’s seat of the police car he was working on.

Mr Darg was hurt in 2002 at Limehouse police station in London, where he was examining an airbag fault.  His wedding ring had to be cut away and he needed a number of stitches to close the wound.  A couple of years after the accident he had to give up work after being diagnosed with “complex regional pain syndrome”.