Accident claim? Slip

jizzler

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

No doubt this was a friends/relatives wedding you were at, very noble of you to actually try and sue the venue you had your alcoholic infused accident at this will make you so popular i expect everyone will be falling over themselves to invite you to their next reception :rotfl:

dacouch

jizzler wrote: »

No doubt this was a friends/relatives wedding you were at, very noble of you to actually try and sue the venue you had your alcoholic infused accident at this will make you so popular i expect everyone will be falling over themselves to invite you to their next reception :rotfl:

The Op has discocated her knee and needs 16 weeks off work, making a claim if the venue if liable is what most sensible people would do.

A venue that sells alcohol and especially if they have a dance floor / dance area have a responsibility to reduce the risk of their customers slipping up on spilt drinks as this is a foreseeable risk. The fact the customers are likely to be intoxicated should also be taken into account by the venue when assessing what steps to take.

If they've taken no steps to reduce the risk and / or not made proper records they will normally lose at court.

vaio

and in any event, the OP states she hadn't been drinking

*Scarlett

Check your home insurance - you may have legal cover on the policy which normally covers personal injury claims and will cover solicitors advice and fees for this type of thing usually up to £50k. They may only take on cases with at least 50% chance of success but should be able to advise you.

You might also have a free legal advice helpline with your home insurance (no fees covered).

Otherwise you might be able to get a free consultation with a specialist solicitor who can advise you.

moneycurious

Thanks for your advice - i will be looking into all of the suggestions carefully. I am very lucky that i had a large amount of family and close friends there that would testify that i ahdnt been drinking. To be honest they are disgusted with the venue for their response. They also support the fact that these family members have had to pick up the slack in driving to appointments etc and can see the pain that i am in.

Thanks

chrisv24

You certainly could have a valid claim. I would suggest that you talk to a personal injury solicitor at the earliest possible moment, many off free consultations so you have nothing to lose.

The venue have a duty of care to you and them failing to have a proper procedure in place show their neglect to offer an acceptable level of care. This site might help you out http://www.injuryclaimspecialists.com/pub-and-bar-accidents/

loo-loo_2

Agree with the guys above, you need some free advice from a personal injury solicitor to fight your accident claim for you - they deal with this sort of thing on a daily basis. Not sure where you're based, but these guys will deal with anyone across the UK, but their head office is based in Stockport. Really friendy too. Claims Solicitors - accident claim, otherwise known as Davies & Company. Hope that's of help!

ACG

This is why i hate this country. YOU stood on something and slipped!
There shouldnt have been anything on the dancefloor but as an ex landlord you try telling people to get off the dancefloor with food and drink and your seen as "ruining their party" or being misserable. There are times people become confrontational - these are people who are nice as pie when sober.

If i slipped on something, then its my own fault for standing on it, not someone elses for not babysitting you. Chances are you will probably win because this country is a shambles.

Watch where your walking/dancing. If your not happy that its a mess ask someone to get it cleaned.

For the record, im not bitter, we never had any accidents and were pretty good at tidying up around people our staff were in the main pretty good at their jobs. It makes no difference if its a pub, mcdonalds or the high street.

I will leave you with a video which mirrors my train of thought - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAnGYfnFz9I (skip the advert).

dacouch

ACG wrote: »

This is why i hate this country. YOU stood on something and slipped!
There shouldnt have been anything on the dancefloor but as an ex landlord you try telling people to get off the dancefloor with food and drink and your seen as "ruining their party" or being misserable. There are times people become confrontational - these are people who are nice as pie when sober.

If i slipped on something, then its my own fault for standing on it, not someone elses for not babysitting you. Chances are you will probably win because this country is a shambles.

Watch where your walking/dancing. If your not happy that its a mess ask someone to get it cleaned.

For the record, im not bitter, we never had any accidents and were pretty good at tidying up around people our staff were in the main pretty good at their jobs. It makes no difference if its a pub, mcdonalds or the high street.

I will leave you with a video which mirrors my train of thought - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAnGYfnFz9I (skip the advert).

It's perfectly easy for a landlord to avoid these types of claims, they just have to take "reasonable" steps and be able to prove them. They also ideally need a H&S policy and risk assesement

If you have a glass collector they just need to record when they perform checks and any action taken eg split drink mopped up and placed warning triangle.

If someone takes you to court for a dance floor slip the solicitors will ask for evidence of what steps you've taken to reduce the risks of a slip and your H&S policy.

If you have glass collector checks at reasonable periods (For your venue / event) and are able to prove it to a court (They like documents) you can fend off most slip claims.

The above is exactly the reason McDonalds etc have the records of dates and times in their toilets and kept separately in their toilets. They're not doing it for customer satisfaction!

ACG

Its not realistic having staff sign documents every 30 mins or so on a busy saturday night.

Our staff worked 10 to the dozen and for them to come off and glass collect got them all sorts of abuse (not real abuse, just the odd - oh ive been waiting ages etc) if people had been waiting more than 5 minutes.

I know this is something we will never agree on but it is something that really does annoy me. Most accidents are avoidable by people paying attention. Im not saying im perfect and have never fell, i have and had to have stitches and a few days off - thats my fault for being too busy talking to my mates and not looking at where im going.... oh and guess what, i have the proverbial taken out of me still to this day if were near where it happened.

Life goes on, pay attention in future and things like that wont happen.