If you have been injured in an accident at work, you may be able to claim compensation. Every employer owes a duty of care to their employees, which means they must provide a safe working environment and take reasonable care to prevent accidents.
Accidents can range from minor trips, causing things like sprains to life-changing injuries, such as head injuries, brain damage, or spinal injuries. In all cases, hindering your ability to work will have an impact on your life.
If you are unable to work you might have issues paying your bills or your mortgage. You could also face expenses as a result of your injuries, such as paying for your care, physiotherapy, or rehabilitation.
All employers are required by law to have employers’ liability insurance, so their insurance company will normally pay any compensation due.
To make an accident at work claim, you will need to prove that your employer was at fault for your injuries. Even if you think that the accident was your fault, you may not have had proper training or instructions and your employer may still be at fault.
How Nelsons can help with accident at work claims
At Nelsons, our team of expert personal injury solicitors has extensive experience in work injury compensation claims, ranging from trips and slips in the workplace, accidents involving faulty equipment, such as filing cabinets or safety harnesses, and accidents involving machinery or fellow employees.
We look to empower our clients, give them a voice, fight for them, help them to seek justice, and steer them through the complex legal issues they face. Our Personal Injury team has an excellent track record of securing compensation and every year we consistently recover large amounts of compensation on behalf of people injured by accidents at work.
We offer:
No win, no fee services
Help with rehabilitation for your injuries
A friendly team of experts
Our team is recommended by the independently researched publications, The Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners, as one of the top teams of specialists in the country.
We are also members of the Law Society Personal Injury Panel – a specialist qualification held by experienced personal injury solicitors – and work with a number of local and nationwide charitable organisations.
To find out more about accident at work claims, please get in touch with us to discuss how our personal injury solicitors in Derby, Leicester or Nottingham can help you.
"Nelsons Solicitors Limited has an experienced personal injury team that specialises in handling severe and catastrophic injury cases. The firm features on all appropriate and approved personal injury panels, including Headway and Spinal Injuries Association.”
The Legal 500
“Excellent personal injury group with broad-ranging expertise encompassing industrial disease, public liability and RTA claims. Frequently handles cases involving severe injuries. Also experienced in employers' liability mandates.”
Chambers and Partners
"...The team is knowledgeable about a broad range of severe and catastrophic injuries on both the personal injury and clinical negligence fronts, including spinal and orthopaedic injuries. Multi-party actions and inquest-related litigation are also areas where the group demonstrates a proven track record..."
The Legal 500
"Professionals second to none’ and ‘the best in every aspect’, Nelsons Solicitors Limited‘s‘ well-established Nottingham and Derby practice retains its market leading position in personal injury claimant work, and particularly, in the case of severe and catastrophic injuries. Lisa Preece spearheads the medico-legal practice as specialises in child and adult brain injury claims, and cases involving severe orthopaedic injuries to include traumatic amputation. Also acting for children, Bruce Williams is another specialist for brain and spinal injuries. Other noted figures include Matthew Olner, Dianne Collins (a ‘tenacious pioneer’), Carolle White, and Baishali Clayton, who has developed a specialism in stillbirths and neonatal deaths."
The Legal 500 2023
"Nelsons provide a first class service for clinical negligence and personal injury at a reasonable cost compared to their competitors."
Referee feedback provided to The Legal 500 2024
"The team has some very experienced lawyers in the team and has a broad range of people so the team works well. They are experts in large complex brain injury and clinical cases. They are very good indeed with clients and experts alike. They have good relations with the other side, which is most important."
Referee feedback provided to The Legal 500 2024
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