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Window Pain
We are now well into the holiday season. With holiday bookings surging after the Covid 19 restrictions have been lifted, we are sadly seeing an increase in enquiries about accidents sustained during those long-awaited vacations. We were pleased to recover compensation for one of our clients in the sum of £6,775.50 after she suffered a
HOW DO THE CHANGES TO THE HIGHWAY CODE AFFECT ME?
The Highway Code is being updated with effect from 29 January 2022. It may be some years since you last looked at the Highway Code and so now is a good time to read this publication again as there are some significant changes being made to the rules of the road. The major innovation to
KEEP IT IN THE FAMILY
Where a person has suffered injury as a result of another person’s negligence, they may make a claim for compensation for those injuries. The injury can require the injured person to need care and assistance. Often that is provided by the NHS or local authority, but it can be provided gratuitously (free of charge) by
BITTEN BY THE BUG
MKB Solicitors LLP have recently negotiated settlement of compensation claims of £2,000.00 and £1,100.00 for a husband and wife after they spent a night being bitten by bed bugs whilst staying in a North Yorkshire hotel. After they developed an itchy rash the couple attended Scarborough Hospital where it was confirmed that they had both
A Step Too Far
MKB Solicitors recently recovered £18,000.00 for a wedding guest who fell down a flight of stairs at the hotel where she was part of a wedding party. The wedding was taking place in a large country house, which also provided accommodation for those members of the wedding party who wanted to stay overnight. During the
Clinical Negligence Compensation
A local man accepted a settlement of £40,000.00 following an unsuccessful hip replacement surgery that took place in 2016. Our client was unaware that there were any issues with how his hip surgery had been performed until September 2017 when his hip began making squeaking noises. He noticed that he began to experience pain around
Road Traffic Accident Compensation
MKB Solicitors have recovered the sum of £17,500.00 for a local man who was a back seat passenger of a car that was involved in a road traffic accident. The car in which our client was a passenger was being driven by his friend. The car moved over into a filter lane intending to turn
MKB Solicitors Supports Mental Health Charity
Yasmin Ahmad and Caroline Ward of MKB’s Commercial Property team have recently provided pro bono advice to the award winning North East mental health charity Anxious Minds in the purchase of some designated woodland. Anxious Minds located an acre and a half of beautiful ancient woodland to turn into an outdoor therapy centre in