by Mark Thompson | Aug 31, 2009 | Compensation calculation
Mitigation means keeping your losses after an accident or injury to a minimum. Reasonableness is the guiding principle. When you claim compensation after an accident, you have a duty to mitigate, or keep your losses to a reasonable minimum. Your response to the...
by Mark Thompson | Aug 31, 2009 | Compensation calculation
Self employed – accident compensation I often act for self employed people. Running my own business gives me an understanding of the self employed and the particular pressures and issues cases for compensation by the self employed involved. Someone on a salary...
by Mark Thompson | Aug 18, 2009 | Spinal injury
Paraplegia In simple terms, paraplegia means below waist level paralysis. In life terms everything is different. I handled a case for a young soldier, who I will call John. He was off for the weekend and got a lift in the back of a friend’s car. The driver had...
by Mark Thompson | Aug 18, 2009 | Spinal injury
Contributory negligence can reduce compensation significantly when the injury is serious I have pointed to the effect of a finding of contributory negligence elsewhere. The effect is felt most in severe injury cases, because the needs of the injured person are so...
by Mark Thompson | Aug 14, 2009 | Compensation calculation
Contributory negligence, or partial fault, is an important subject and worthy of its own section. You prove your case by showing you were injured by someone who did not take reasonable care for your safety. They might be able to show you were partially to blame and...
