Accident at work - help!

dacouch

Deleted_User wrote: »

These claim companys are all no win no fee,just read the fine print.

I have used them twice (different companys) both for being off work for 3 months.

You can PM me if you wish for a discussion on how I went about it.

Good luck

It's probably changed since you last used a no win no fee company as currently the majority of them will deduct upto 25% from your compensation

amersall

I slipped at work and broke my wrist last year, I had legal cover with my House insurance, they put me through to a solicitor who deals with these claims and it did not cost me a penny.

Twiglet12

RickieFlack wrote: »

HSE is interested more in general problems, not one person.

The new policy is much of a 'take more care' (like you shouldn't have done previously), just a paper exercise so that management are covered by doing 'something'.

Not true at all. By law, some types of injury or incident affecting an individual must have a RIDDOR report made to HSE. This must be done within 10 days of the incident.

dickydonkin

Twiglet12 wrote: »

Not true at all. By law, some types of injury or incident affecting an individual must have a RIDDOR report made to HSE. This must be done within 10 days of the incident.

The deadline for reporting is actually 15 days from the incident (not including the day the injury occurred) - this would be the case for the OP's partner as it would be classed as an over 7 day injury.

For more serious injuries (Specified Injuries - as defined in RIDDOR) then the reporting window would indeed be 10 days.

Riddor legislation was recently changed - one of the reasons being to make it more simpler to understand.............it hasn't in my opinion!

RickieFlack wrote: »

HSE is interested more in general problems, not one person.

If one person is seriously injured at work - that may suggest there is a 'general problem' in the workplace - particularly when one person has suffered twice within a short period of time. This is one of the reasons why RIDDOR forms are submitted as the HSE can detect trends and provide accident statistics.

Where many F2058 forms are submitted regularly by one employer, this may instigate an inspection by the HSE - one of the reasons many unscrupulous employers are reluctant to submit them - and why the the HSE can and do prosecute for not submitting them!
http://www.healthandsafetyatwork.com/hsw/tesco-riddor-failures

patman99

If the op does engage the services of a claims compnay, he should instruct hem to recover their costs from the insurance company (mind you, the claims company I have used did this automaticcally).