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 Kerry Blackhurst in Pannone Personal Injury Team on Tuesday, August 31, 2010
It is terrible to read of yet another incident involving a child being injured by dogs in today’s press. All too often in this department we encounter claims involving dog bites, although fortunately rarely as severe as the injuries poor little Rhianna has suffered from. However there have... read more
By Kerry Blackhurst in Pannone Personal Injury Team on Wednesday, August 18, 2010
I wouldn't want to take on the delighful Ms Campbell's claim after famously falling off her vertiginous Vivienne Westwood platforms - after all she was surely aware of the risks she was taking on when she started tottering down the runway - however I am currently acting... read more
By Kerry Blackhurst in Pannone Personal Injury Team on Wednesday, August 11, 2010
To my colleagues it may look as if I have recently been playing dollies with a pushchair in the office, but it is all in the name of research as I have spent quite a bit of time examining a buggy which has caused a nasty injury to a two year old boy. The facts of this accident are very... read more
By Kerry Blackhurst in Pannone Personal Injury Team on Tuesday, August 3, 2010
The Government is currently undertaking a two-pronged attack on the rights of injured victims to recover adequate and just compensation. Last week the justice minister, Jonathan Djanogly, said the government will consult this autumn on parts of Sir Rupert Jackson's recent report on costs in... 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 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
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 Kerry Blackhurst in Pannone Personal Injury Team on Monday, July 12, 2010
A Daily Mail article caught my eye today. It refers to a particular street in Liverpool which has been the subject of several compensation claims from people injured due to tripping accidents and suggests that some of these accidents could be fraudulent. Whilst there are a few errors... read more
In a creepy, Derren Brown-like manner I am willing to predict that I’ll have exerted some powerful subliminal influence over your behaviour by the time you finish reading this blog…. Surprisingly, in the space of the last couple of weeks I have received instructions in relation to three... read more
By Kerry Blackhurst in Pannone Personal Injury Team on Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Having been away from civilised society for a week whilst letting my two toddlers rampage feral-like through the Welsh countryside, I have been slightly slow on the uptake in reading about our esteemed new Prime Minister’s recent pledge to overhaul those outrageous conker banning Health and... read more
