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Serious Injuries

Every year, thousands of people are seriously injured in a range of settings across Ireland, requiring ongoing medical treatment, rehabilitation, and possibly considerable time off work.

In some situations, serious injuries can be life-changing, meaning that those affected are unable to return to the life they once knew. This may mean they are unable to resume their career, education, hobbies, or military service.

Health and Safety Obligations

All private and public entities have a legal duty to ensure the health and safety of employees and members of the public. This means they are legally bound to actively identify all risks to health and safety within their operations, and either eliminate any danger, or if this is not possible, mitigate it as much as possible. In practical terms this may mean placing clear signage to warn of danger, redesign work processes, replace outdated and dangerous equipment, provide protective equipment and clothing, implement training programmes alongside robust health and safety policies and procedures, employ dedicated health and safety personnel, contract specialist external safety experts to provide advice, enforce work-time regulations, and any other number of possible strategies.

Each industry has its own unique health and safety legal obligations with which it must comply (e.g. construction, manufacturing, or transport), and failure to do so may constitute negligence. And as a result, victims have a legal right to bring a claim for recourse against them to recover damages incurred. But to do so, it must be proven that the party was negligent by providing sufficient evidence; this is where we can help you.

Our Personal Injury Expertise

At Lavelle Partners, over the past three decades, we have helped individuals and their families who, following serious injury due to the negligent acts of another party, have needed to bring a claim under law. Some individuals wish to make a claim to bring the person, business, or organisation to account for their negligence, and to help others avoid the same fate. Others may also wish to seek damages for the pain, suffering and losses they have incurred.

Our Recent Serious Injury Cases

Serious injury can be caused by accidents due to negligence in a range of contexts including (but not limited to):

Construction sites
Educational establishments
Healthcare settings
Military facilities
Public facilities
Road traffic accidents
Supermarkets or other retail establishments
Workplaces

Regardless of where the injury occurred, it will be necessary to establish who is at fault for the accident which led to the serious injury. Depending on the situation, this may be a local authority, public entity, building contractor, employer, a private company, or an individual.

To bring a claim against a negligent party for your injuries, it will be necessary to prove:

The party owed you a duty of care – if you were not owed a duty of care, no claim can be brought
The duty of care was breached and
The breach of care led to serious injury.

One of our primary roles will be to establish if there are grounds for a claim and if so, to create a compelling case that proves the other party held legal culpability which they breached, leading to your injury.

Claims following serious injury due to negligence may cover two areas of loss:

Pain and suffering due to the injury;
Specific costs resulting from the injury caused. This may cover costs already incurred, such as transport, accommodation, and medical treatment, and expected future expenses, such as physical therapy and care costs.

The costs you receive will be based on the precise injuries suffered and the circumstances of the case.

There is no limit to the type of serious injury for which you can bring a claim.

We are commonly engaged by clients with the following types of trauma:

Amputations
Back and spinal injuries
Bone fractures
Burns
Eye injuries
Head/brain injury
Industrial disease
Musculoskeletal injuries
Psychological injury (e.g. PTSD)

Serious injuries by their nature have the potential to have life-long consequences for those affected, causing symptoms which do not dissipate over time. We have seen first-hand how clients with serious injuries due to the fault of another party have been left with pain, loss of function, loss of sensation, loss of mobility, cognitive impairment, anxiety, and permanent disfigurement. It is for this reason that we work tirelessly to represent those who have been seriously injured, with the aim of putting them back into (as near as possible) the same situation they were before their accident.

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How can Lavelle Partners Assist with a Serious Injury Claim?

Our award-winning Medical Negligence & Personal Injury Team, headed by Partner Avril Scally, have decades of combined experience and place client care at the centre of everything we do.
We have successfully acted for many individuals and families with Serious Personal Injuries.
We will listen to your case carefully and with empathy and will only recommend moving forward if we believe you have a valid case.
We have both the legal expertise and understanding of the real-life challenges that individuals and their families experience in the event of a Serious Personal Injury.
Our solicitors will manage the process entirely on your behalf; compiling the necessary information and managing the submission of your Personal Injury claim.