This blog is produced by members of the Personal Injury department at Pannone LLP, a full service law firm based in Manchester city centre. Our Personal Injury Team is the top-rated team in the North West in Chambers Legal Directory. We undertake the full spectrum of personal injury work, from road traffic accidents to industrial disease cases; from travel and tourism litigation to catastrophic injury claims involving serious head, spinal and amputation injuries; from police assault and child abuse cases to group actions arising from major disasters.
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By Tim Grover in Pannone Personal Injury Team on Monday, July 26, 2010
I have been receiving some quite disturbing reports from concerned guests who have returned from their holidays at the all-inclusive Holiday Village Rhodes in Kolymbia, Greece. These reports are claiming that there is a large scale illness outbreak at the resort, operated exclusively by First... read more
By Kerry Blackhurst in Pannone Personal Injury Team on Friday, July 23, 2010
I am acting for a Claimant who sustained unfortunate and distressing injury when his computer suddenly exploded whilst he was using it at home. The victim had purchased a brand new Archos 9 PC 8.9 inch Tablet only days before and was simply running a performance test off the mains when the... read more
By Nick Harrison in Pannone Personal Injury Team on Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Our Cycling Claims Team will be entertaining cycling claims contacts and other members of the local cycling community this Thursday for live coverage of the Pau to Tourmalet stage of this year's Tour de France. This is unique event to Manchester. Guests will celebrate Le Tour and... read more
By Kerry Blackhurst in Pannone Personal Injury Team on Tuesday, July 20, 2010
This is a slightly unseasonal blog, but it is an issue which has only just come to light as I have been dealing with one claim for personal injury following an unfortunate slipping accident during the extreme bad weather at the start of the year. In this claim the Council had not gritted my... read more
Collisions between motorists and deer are becoming an increasingly common event according to The Daily Telegraph. It suggests that accidents involving deer on British roads are up 6% this year alone. One reason advanced for this rise concerns the increasing levels of traffic in... read more
By Kim Harrison in Pannone Personal Injury Team on Thursday, July 15, 2010
As a lawyer who specialises in obtaining compensation for workers who have contracted asbestos related diseases such as mesothelioma and asbestosis I like to think I know quite a bit about asbestos and it’s use. However I was shocked and quite frankly stunned to hear at the last conference I... read more
By Caroline Hickerton in Holiday Accident and Travel Claims on Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Two months have now passed since thousands of Britons were stranded abroad following the eruption of the Icelandic volcano. Many passengers were left put of pocket, with some airlines reluctant to honour even their basic obligations of assistance to stranded passengers whether under EU Law or... read more
By Kerry Blackhurst in Pannone Personal Injury Team on Tuesday, July 13, 2010
I am not posting this blog as a personal injury lawyer, but as a mum. To any readers with children in their lives or who will be going in the sea or indeed swimming in any water this summer, I would urge you to read this article written by a US military maritime safety expert on his... read more
By Stephen Jewell in Holiday Accident and Travel Claims on Tuesday, July 13, 2010
We routinely deal with claims involving slips on floors in foreign hotels and in public areas of cruise ships, that have been left in a dangerously wet condition. However, we were recently successful involving a claim where unusually the wet floor in question... read more
By Clare Campbell in Holiday Accident and Travel Claims on Tuesday, July 13, 2010
The Summer of 2010 certainly belongs to the Spanish. Not only have their sportsmen achieved success at Wimbledon and the World Cup, but they also top the charts when it comes to cheap and cheerful holiday destinations. A new survey by the News of the World has revealed that the falling... read more
