Supermarket Personal Injury Claim? Supermarket Accident?
Accident in store, shop or mall? Injury accident in Tesco, Asda, Morrisons, Aldi, Lidl, Waitrose, Spar, Co-op Somerfield, B&Q, Homebase.
Supermarket slip? Supermarket trip? Car Park accident?
Tripping or slipping in supermarket, shop, cafe, pub, bar or sports centre?
Slipped on liquid in supermarket, shop, restaurant, bistro?
We deal with accidents claims in supermarkets, shops, shopping centres, restaurants, bars and cafes, every day. We have many years' of expertise in this area of law. All types of slipping accidents, tripping accidents and falls. If you have suffered a supermarket trip or slip and want to make a supermarket compensation claim, you are in the right place....
We act on behalf of individuals who have suffered a supermarket tripping accident, a supermarket slipping accident as well as all other types of supermarket accidents. If you have been injured in any type of supermarket accident, please contact us for fast information on how to begin your supermarket accident compensation claim.
The Occupiers' Liability Act 1957 deals with this area of law. For details of the Act, please click here. Generally though, the personal injury compensation claims will be dealt with under the common law of negligence, where the store or supermarket has done something or not done something that has caused your tripping or slipping accident.
Click here for Ward -v- Tesco, a very important decided case. This was decided in 1976, so please ignore the low compensation awarded!
If you have had an accident in store, we can help you gain compensation. You will need immediate advice, please ring us now on FREEPHONE 0800 169 3683.
Typically, shoppers may be injured by slipping on liquid that has been allowed to remain on the floor; slipping on vegetable matter and similar; slipping on spilled products such as yoghurt, milk or cream; slipping on fluids leaking from fridges and cold display units; slipping in area that have just been mopped and do not have warning signs.
Other examples of accidents in supermarkets are: tripping over boxes, pallets, discarded packaging or stock cages on the floor; tripping over cables from cleaners and equipment, tripping due to discarded plastic bindings and wrappings from stock; tripping over broken parts of display stands and the like. Some clients have been injured by products falling off shelves, by falling signs and displays
Personal injury slipping and tripping accident in supermarkets are very common indeed. Often the cause of the slipping or tripping could so easily have been avoided if the supermarket's staff had been more careful. Empty boxes should be crushed and placed in a safe place to avoid a tripping hazard and a possible personal injury to a shopper or another member of staff.
Similarly, if a member of the supermarket's staff notices a spillage, they should stand at that place and wait until another member of staff can be contacted to summon the duty cleaner. If the member of staff leaves the spillage to go and report the slipping hazard, another person could quite easily step itno the spill then slip and fall. In effect, the member of staff who first spots the slipping or tripping hazard has to guard other from the hazard.
Our solicitors are experienced in all types of slipping and tripping accident claims in supermarkets, shops, pubs, cafes, restaurants, shopping malls, shopping centres and public areas. If you have suffered a personal injury in store, please telephone or e-mail for free advice on how to begin your supermarket compensation claim. This includes tripping on defects outside the supermarket, in the car park and surrounding pavements and walk-ways.
Section 2 of the 1957 Act is as follows. It clearly defines the occupiers' duty, includes that the person in control of the premises must be aware that children are less careful than adults:
Extent of occupier’s ordinary duty:
(1)An occupier of premises owes the same duty, the “common duty of care”, to all his visitors, except in so far as he is free to and does extend, restrict, modify or exclude his duty to any visitor or visitors by agreement or otherwise.
(2)The common duty of care is a duty to take such care as in all the circumstances of the case is reasonable to see that the visitor will be reasonably safe in using the premises for the purposes for which he is invited or permitted by the occupier to be there.
(3)The circumstances relevant for the present purpose include the degree of care, and of want of care, which would ordinarily be looked for in such a visitor, so that (for example) in proper cases—
(a)an occupier must be prepared for children to be less careful than adults; and
(b)an occupier may expect that a person, in the exercise of his calling, will appreciate and guard against any special risks ordinarily incident to it, so far as the occupier leaves him free to do so.
(4)In determining whether the occupier of premises has discharged the common duty of care to a visitor, regard is to be had to all the circumstances, so that (for example)—
(a)where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger of which he had been warned by the occupier, the warning is not to be treated without more as absolving the occupier from liability, unless in all the circumstances it was enough to enable the visitor to be reasonably safe; and
(b)where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger due to the faulty execution of any work of construction, maintenance or repair by an independent contractor employed by the occupier, the occupier is not to be treated without more as answerable for the danger if in all the circumstances he had acted reasonably in entrusting the work to an independent contractor and had taken such steps (if any) as he reasonably ought in order to satisfy himself that the contractor was competent and that the work had been properly done.
(5)The common duty of care does not impose on an occupier any obligation to a visitor in respect of risks willingly accepted as his by the visitor (the question whether a risk was so accepted to be decided on the same principles as in other cases in which one person owes a duty of care to another).
(6)For the purposes of this section, persons who enter premises for any purpose in the exercise of a right conferred by law are to be treated as permitted by the occupier to be there for that purpose, whether they in fact have his permission or not.
We also represent staff who have been injured at their place of work. If you have been injured while working at a supermarket, shop, bar, club, sports centre, shopping centre or similar, please telephone for immediate help on how to proceed. The information you need is only a free telephone call away.
Please telephone us on freephone 0800 169 3683 for free no-obligation advice on how to begin your supermarket slipping or tripping compensation claim.
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