If you have not had an accident the importance of an expert to prove a case has probably not crossed your mind, but issues concerning expert evidence occupies lawyer’s minds a lot. The way of life is that accidents happen in diverse... read more
Welcome to the Pannone Personal Injury Blog
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.
We hope you will find this blog useful, informative and thought provoking. We'd be really interested to hear from you regarding any of the issues we cover, so please take the opportunity to make comments. We would also like to hear your views on the format and content of the blog and if there are subjects you'd like us to cover, then please email us and let us know.
Hotel Regente riddled with sickness bug
By Tim Grover in Holiday Accident and Travel Claims on Tuesday, June 15, 2010
With the start of the World Cup, music festivals and sunshine, there can be no doubt that the summer has started. Next up is the annual summer holiday and I have been reading numerous hotel reviews online. Unfortunately, the Hotel Regente in Benidorm, Spain appears to have an unwanted guest... read more
Oriental Resort, Egypt – Stomach bug ruins Brits holidays
By Simon Weilding in Holiday Accident and Travel Claims on Tuesday, June 15, 2010
I have been reading reports regarding a possible outbreak of gastric illness / food poisoning at the 272 room all-inclusive Oriental Resort, Nabq bay, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. The hotel is popular with British tourists. Holidaymakers returning report symptoms consistent with food... read more
PrimaSol Tropicana Azure Club, Sharm El Sheikh, holiday illness and sickness - misery goes on and on?
By Simon Weilding in Holiday Accident and Travel Claims on Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Over the past few months you may have been lucky enough to read a couple of interesting blogs from my colleague and travel law expert Tim Grover. He highlighted problems at the PrimaSol Tropicana Azure Club, NabqBay, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. His latest update can be found here. ... read more
Sickness continues at the Beach Club Torremolinos Hotel, Spain
By Tim Grover in Holiday Accident and Travel Claims on Tuesday, June 15, 2010
I have written on numerous occasions about the sickness problems at the Beach Club Torremolinos Hotel in Torremolinos, Spain. Unfortunately, it seems, that the hotel and tour operators are not addressing the illness problems at the resort. Internet reviewers are continuing to raise concerns... read more
2 British students killed in South African bus crash
By Clare Campbell in Holiday Accident and Travel Claims on Thursday, June 10, 2010
I am saddened to read of the tragic death of 2 young British students following a tour bus crash in Nelspruit, South Africa. I understand that the young girls were on an organised trip to South Africa with their college - Brooksby Melton College in Melton Mowbray, Leicester. Another... read more
Cactus sap claim by man temporarily blinded
By Kim Harrison in Pannone Personal Injury Team on Thursday, June 10, 2010
A story in today's 'Metro' newspaper caught my eye on the bus this morning as I was on my way to work. According to the paper a man is suing his former employer after he was 'nearly blinded' whilst pruning a cactus in a shopping centre. The sap apparently squirted into his right... read more
Plaques payments still set to go ahead
By Kim Harrison in Industrial Disease Claims on Thursday, June 10, 2010
Following the election of the Con-Dem government many of us were worried that with talks of cuts the new government would look again at whether to compensate the pleural plaques victims who had already begun their claims before the House of Lords decided that pleural plaques was no longer a... read more
Sins of the past - child abuse in the Catholic Church
By Richard Scorer in Abuse Cases on Thursday, June 10, 2010
There has been worldwide publicity recently regarding child abuse scandals in the Catholic Church. In the UK, Catholic abuse cases have already featured in the media for over a decade, and the courts here have become very familiar with civil claims for child abuse. The Catholic Church (in... read more
Illness and sickness outbreak at the all inclusive Jaz Crystal Resort, Egypt
By Tim Grover in Holiday Accident and Travel Claims on Friday, June 4, 2010
Here at the Pannone Travel Team we regularly receive enquires from concerned holidaymakers following their trips abroad. We are now reading numerous reports of a stomach bug outbreak at the Jaz Crystal Resort in Egypt. Holidaymakers have raised concerns about the state of the food at the all... read more

