Last updated at 12:00, Wednesday, 27 January 2010

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If you have tripped or fallen recently then you know what a pain in the neck it can be! Not only is it incredibly embarrassing when it actually happens, but it can cause personal injuries which can be very painful, as well as setting you back a rather large sum of money in medical costs and lost wages if the personal injury you suffer is particularly serious. When you trip, slip or fall through no fault of your own, your personal injuries can seriously affect your life.

The most common types of accidents in the UK are slips or falls and, as a result, they contribute to a huge amount of the personal injuries that plague thousands of British people every year. In fact, around 16% of the personal injuries in the UK were caused by slips, trips or falls.

Falling over or slipping on something can happen in a huge variety of places. Often, it is not the victim's fault because a duty of care was owed to them. Say, for example, you fall over in a shop or a supermarket. What you slipped on could have been liquid that was spilled and not cleaned up, or it may have been a defect with the flooring which was not fixed or signposted. The owner of the shop in which you fell had a duty of care to ensure that the shop premises were safe and that slips and trips were prevented wherever possible.

Slipping or falling on the pavement or on the road is a similar situation. If the footpath that you are walking on is not maintained to a good and safe standard, and you have an accident and sustain a personal injury as a result, then it is often the responsibility of the highway authority and you may be eligible for compensation.

A compensation claim could help you in this situation, because it can enable you to get access to the compensation that is rightly owed to you by the person who was responsible for your accident.

For many people, the idea of initiating a compensation claim is a little daunting - though it doesn't have to be. This is because there are no win, no fee personal injury solicitors to handle them for you. No win no fee means that you put forth a compensation claim with the help of your personal injury solicitor and, if you do not win your case, you do not have to pay a penny.

Your personal injury solicitor will do all of the negotiating for you, as well as all of the paperwork, meaning that a compensation claim does not have to get in the way of you recovering from your personal injury or getting on with your life. This means minimal fuss and minimal effort, and if you lose your no win, no fee compensation claim then you won't lose a penny of your own money.

First published at 16:32, Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Published by http://www.penrithlocal.co.uk