If you sustain an injury due to the negligence of a supermarket or a member of its staff, you should be entitled to make supermarket injury claims for compensation. The success of your claim for supermarket injury compensation will depend on how long the hazard which was responsible for your accident and injury had been present, for although supermarket owners have a duty of care to provide a safe environment for their customers, they cannot be held responsible for a hazard which has just materialised and which they have had insufficient time to deal with. To establish whether you have supermarket injury claims which are worth your while to pursue, you are advised to speak with a personal injury lawyer at the earleiest possible opportunity.
A woman, who injured her lower spine when slipping and falling in a Stop & Shop store, has settled her injury claim for a slip on a grape in a supermarket. Bonnie Gutierrez (50) was shopping with her husband – Milton – on 31st October 2010 at her local Stop & Shop. As the couple … Read more
A pensioner, who fell and broke her shoulder on a shopping centre travelator, has been awarded 30,000 Euros in compensation for fall on the moving walkway by a judge in Dublin. At the Circuit Civil Court in Dublin, Judge Jacqueline Linnane heard how Rosaleen Hill (79) of Terenure in Dublin had been returning to the … Read more
A fine of 48,000 pounds has been imposed for unreported work accidents in a Tesco grocery store after a health and safety investigation by Bracknell Forest Council. The council discovered three specific incidences of the company “failing to report an accident to the relevant enforcing authority” between May 2009 and March 2010 and health and … Read more
A pensioner, who fractured a metatarsal bone in his foot after slipping in his local Tesco grocery store, has been awarded compensation from Tesco for a slip on a wet floor. Ronald Fryer from Whittington in Worcestershire was visiting his local Tesco grocery store in St. Peter´s in October 2009 when his unfortunate accident occurred. … Read more
The Food Standards Agency is investigating salmonella in watermelon claims following the death of one person and thirty other reported cases of food poisoning in the UK relating to pre-packed ready-to-eat watermelon slices. Cases of similar illness have also been reported in Germany and the Republic of Ireland, and officials at the Health Protection Agency … Read more
A woman, who sustained shoulder and hip injuries when slipping on the access bridge to a Leicestershire shopping centre, has secured a settlement for falling on wet floor in a shopping centre against the owners of the site. Gweneth Bowler from Quorn in Leicestershire was visiting the Highcross Shopping Centre in Leicester with her daughter when … Read more
A former Tesco employee who made a claim for Tesco worker injury compensation has accepted an undisclosed settlement shortly before her claim was due to be heard in court. Shona Foreman (35) from Alloa in Clackmannanshire made the claim for Tesco worker injury compensation after her hand was damaged during a delivery to the Duloch … Read more