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Personal Injury

Personal injury specialist promoted to regional managing partner

A new manager with two decades of experience in the personal injury se...

Thompsons comments on government response to Cumberlege Review

Linda Millband, national practice lead for medical negligence at Thomp...

Road Traffic Accidents

Search dog handler compensated after an uninsured drunk driver left him with life-changing injuries and killed two dogs

Thompsons Solicitors and NASUWT have supported a search dog handler wh...

Thompsons comments on upcoming introduction of £5,000 small claims limit

On Monday 31 May 2021, the small claims limit for a number of road acc...

Serious Injury

Legal success leads to five prosthetic legs for Essex motorbike enthusiast

Thompsons Solicitors secured a seven-figure settlement for a machine o...

Contractor fined £350,000 for worker's amputation injury

Morgan Prosser had to have his arm amputated after a serious workplace...

Thompsons welcomes judgment supporting accommodation funding for seriously injured

A landmark Court of Appeal judgment has ruled that victims of serious ...

Asbestos Diseases

Civil servant calls on former colleagues for help in asbestos disease claim

Elizabeth Jackson was diagnosed with mesothelioma in September 2022. R...

Family of Liverpool ship carpenter calls on former colleagues to help with asbestos disease legal claim

Gerald Breen died at 81 after developing the asbestos-related cancer, ...

Peterborough Paper Mill worker appeals to former colleagues for help in asbestos disease claim

72-year-old Malcolm Mitton has been diagnosed with mesothelioma, an as...

Industrial Diseases

Thompsons supports Mesothelioma UK’s Patient and Carer Day with sponsorship

Thompsons Solicitors is sponsoring the immunotherapy session of Mesoth...

Making a personal injury or workplace disease claim during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic

We are still here during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic to suppor...

Medical Negligence

Social justice law firm appoints new head of clinical negligence

Social justice law firm Thompsons Solicitors has appointed a new head ...

Spire Healthcare recall a further 1,500 Ian Paterson patients

Spire Parkway has issued a new recall of 1,500 former patients of conv...

Accidents at Work

Thompsons comments on increase to small claims limit for employers' and public liability from April 2022

Gerard Stilliard, head of personal injury strategy at Thompsons Solici...

Contractor fined £350,000 for worker's amputation injury

Morgan Prosser had to have his arm amputated after a serious workplace...

Case of the Week

Case of the week: Union member penalised for raising health and safety concerns

In this week’s case, Ben Diaz from Thompsons’ North West branch, acted...

Case of the Week: Defective Products

In this week's Case of the Week, we helped a family win compensation a...

Case of the Week: Delivering Justice

In this week's case of the week our solicitors successfully opposed so...

Our Firm News

Thompsons announces new regional managing partner in London

A new regional manager with over two decades of experience in the pers...

David Standard appointed as New Head of Marketing and Communications at Thompsons Solicitors

Thompsons Solicitors has appointed a new head of marketing and communi...

Gender pay gap report 2023

Thompsons Solicitors has published its Gender Pay Gap data for this ye...

Our Charity Work

Thompsons’ teams step up for asbestos cancer charity

Thompsons Solicitors’ asbestos disease lawyers have raised £900 for Me...

Thompsons raises more than £1,000 for Cerebral Palsy Cymru

Staff at the Thompsons offices in Cardiff and Bristol have celebrated ...

Thompsons team goes the extra mile for Meso UK

Members of the team at Thompsons Solicitors collectively cycled 165 mi...

COVID-19 News

Thompsons Solicitors coronavirus (COVID-19) update

Thompsons Solicitors coronavirus (COVID-19) update ...

Thompsons comments on Boris Johnson’s statement for post-lockdown plans

Gerard Stilliard, head of personal injury strategy at Thompsons Solici...

Unprecedented drop in vehicle usage and mass layoffs, yet insurers pocket hundreds of millions in savings

While most of the UK licks its economic wounds, our head of personal i...

COVID-19 Briefings

Briefing on employer and employees responsibilities on returning to work in the wake of coronavirus (COVID-19) No.7

Briefing on employer and employees responsibilities on returning to wo...

Briefing on employer and employees' responsibilities in the wake of coronavirus (COVID-19) No. 5

As part of our ongoing briefings for trade unions and workers we addre...

Briefing on employer and employees’ responsibilities in the wake of coronavirus (COVID-19) No. 6

As part of our ongoing briefings for trade unions and workers we addre...