Accident claim? Slip

moneycurious

Hiya,
I am after some advice. I attended a function recently and slipped and dislocated my knee and also damaged the muscles and ligerments. I have been told that i will need 16 weeks off work. The floor was slippy , and even the doctor has said that this is the cause. Do you think i have a good chance in winning if i were to claim. My concern is that the funcilon was a wedding and they will say that i had been drinking although i had had a glass or two earlier in the day i was bot drinking at the evening event.
Please help!!
Thanks

dacouch

What did you slip on?

moneycurious

sorry , knew i missed something.
The floor was slippy with drinks * they were allowed on dancefloor* , and bits of food from the day do.
everyone has commented how i was walking and then they just saw me slip , the pain was awful and i dont then really remember anything till i got to hospital.

dacouch

You being drunk does not really affect it although it does mean the venue owner should take extra care to take into account the customers may be intoxicated.

If the venue has a robust system in place for glass collectors to check at regular intervals and clear up any spilt drinks etc etc and this system is documented eg like they do in McDonalds toilets. Then they would probably lose in court.

Basically the venue need to be able to provide evidence that they have a system in place to check and clear spilt drinks which if they had in place would mean they have taken all reasonable actions to prevent slips. Most don't bother to do this, although when they get a claim on their policy they will start to in future!

You probably have a claim, any legal company you take on will write to the venue and ask them to provide written proof of their systems in place to deal with spilt drinks.

hugoshavez

moneycurious wrote: »

Hiya,
I am after some advice. I attended a function recently and slipped and dislocated my knee and also damaged the muscles and ligerments. I have been told that i will need 16 weeks off work. The floor was slippy , and even the doctor has said that this is the cause. Do you think i have a good chance in winning if i were to claim. My concern is that the funcilon was a wedding and they will say that i had been drinking although i had had a glass or two earlier in the day i was bot drinking at the evening event.
Please help!!
Thanks

Sorry to hear about your accident, it sounds like quite a bad fall.

This is one where taking a free 30 minutes with a solicitor will get you a better answer than people on here can give, but they could give more informed advice if you answered a few more questions, beginning with Dacouch's.

Do you know specifically what you slipped on?

Were you dancing (with a drink perhaps?) or just crossing the dancefloor?

Will you be unpaid while you miss work?

Was any action taken after you slipped? Dancefloor cleaned? Drinks banned?

You'll understand that Doctors typically have very little knowledge of the law (and I'm assuming he/she wasn't a wedding guest so didn't witness the event) so while they're handy for discussing the extent of an injury, they can't comment with any authority on whether the venue is liable.

moneycurious

Thanks for your replies , in response

Do you know specifically what you slipped on? No idea

Were you dancing (with a drink perhaps?) or just crossing the dancefloor?I was crossing the danceflorr with the intention to start dancing ( no drink in hand)

Will you be unpaid while you miss work? I will be unpaid from my second job

Was any action taken after you slipped? Dancefloor cleaned? Drinks banned? - nothing was done after i left , they just gave my sister an accident form to fill in . The Dj then proceeded to take the proverbial all night ( as my sister remained) , and she said the dancefloor was covered by the end of the evening

Its just gutting when i was an "innocent " party in it , ...... i wish i hadnt ever gone.

dacouch

Don't worry, it sounds like they have never had a claim against them for a slip as otherwise they would take it seriously and take preventative measures to reduce the risks.

They will take it seriously when they receive a claim, are asked for what measures they have to prevent slips, pay their excess, their premium goes up and their Insurer probably insists they start using a glass collector properly to clear spills and use warning signs

hugoshavez

moneycurious wrote: »

The Dj then proceeded to take the proverbial all night ( as my sister remained) , and she said the dancefloor was covered by the end of the evening

That's pretty shocking, though I guess the DJ was probably employed by your hosts, rather than the venue. I wonder why nobody had a word?

It'll be worth your time researching a decent local solicitor specialising in personal injury, or googling cashback no win no fee.

Don't just stop at some stall set up in the local shopping centre with £££ on a big banner.

dacouch

hugoshavez wrote: »

That's pretty shocking, though I guess the DJ was probably employed by your hosts, rather than the venue. I wonder why nobody had a word?

It'll be worth your time researching a decent local solicitor specialising in personal injury, or googling cashback no win no fee.

Don't just stop at some stall set up in the local shopping centre with £££ on a big banner.

And ignore any personal messages on MSE

Crazy_Jamie

The one potential problem that I can see here is that you do not know what you slipped on. If you don't know what you slipped on, you may be in difficulty alleging that whatever it is that caused you to slip is something that the venue should have guarded against, or that the venue should have reasonably addressed. However, we clearly don't have all of the information here, and there is clearly further information and/or evidence that may be relevant. A free consultation with a solicitor would be a good idea at this stage.

dacouch

Crazy_Jamie wrote: »

The one potential problem that I can see here is that you do not know what you slipped on. If you don't know what you slipped on, you may be in difficulty alleging that whatever it is that caused you to slip is something that the venue should have guarded against, or that the venue should have reasonably addressed. However, we clearly don't have all of the information here, and there is clearly further information and/or evidence that may be relevant. A free consultation with a solicitor would be a good idea at this stage.

I've dealt with plenty of slip claim in nightclubs etc, as soon as the op goes to a solicitor they will soon find something the OP would have slipped on...

My friends nightclub had a "customer" break a leg after slipping up in the club. They had very good cctv and friends of friends knew the guy. They discovered he broke it playing football and was also a friend of a previous slip claimer at the club. He was a builder who would receive no pay so he pretended he'd slipped at the club