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Personal Injury
Case of the Week: Car Park Slip
Our Case of the Week focuses on our client who slipped over while atte...
07 January 2019Case of the Week: Fall on the Footpath
In this week's 'Case of the Week', we highlight how our personal injur...
17 September 2018Case of the Week: Tripping in the Street
Our client claimed compensation after the local council failed to fix ...
03 September 2018Road Traffic Accidents
Court of Appeal finds against MiB in landmark case for road accident victim injured on private land
Court of Appeal has confirmed a High Court decision to extend compensa...
05 June 2019Case of the Week: Rear End Shunt Trial
Thompsons Solicitors secures compensation for Newcastle Upon Tyne clie...
03 June 2019Case of the Week: Pedestrian Crossing Collision
This week's Case of the Week focuses on our trade union client who suf...
04 February 2019Serious Injury
Thompsons Solicitors joins calls for greater awareness of brain injuries
Thompsons Solicitors is taking part in the first meeting of the West M...
17 June 2019Birmingham children severely burned by faulty fan win seven-year legal battle against Curry’s
Thompsons Solicitors acted for a family whose home caught fire due to ...
07 March 2019Balfour Beatty and London Underground ordered to pay more than £400,000 after employee crushed due to safety failures
We represented our client against Balfour Beatty and the London Underg...
03 December 2018Asbestos Diseases
Wife of telephone engineer appeals for information following husband’s asbestos-related death
The wife of a former telephone engineer in Newcastle appeals to her la...
18 October 2019Scunthorpe man suffering from asbestos-related cancer searches for former Drax Power Station colleagues in his hunt for answers
A Lincolnshire man diagnosed with a fatal asbestos disease is appealin...
10 October 2019Family of Birkenhead man appeals for help from Freeman Hardy & Willis employees
The family of a Birkenhead man who died from mesothelioma are appealin...
21 August 2019Industrial Diseases
Wolverhampton man compensated after father’s asbestos-related death
Thompsons Solicitors helped Wolverhampton man Peter Hobbs with a compe...
23 July 2018Family of mesothelioma victim donate compensation to local hospice
The family of a Vicar who passed away due to mesothelioma have donated...
25 April 2018Sunderland man appeals for help following his dads mesothelioma death
Thompsons Solicitors is supporting a man in an appeal to former collea...
24 January 2018Medical Negligence
Teaching assistant “lost 13 years of her life” to controversial vaginal mesh implant
Beverly Burrows, a teaching assistant left in substantial pain after h...
08 May 2019Mesh lives matter - Vaginal Mesh Rally on Thursday 9 May 2019
Thompsons Solicitors supports the Sling The Mesh vaginal mesh rally on...
02 May 2019Johnson & Johnson to pay $9.9 million to avoid standing trial over surgical mesh devices in the United States
Johnson & Johnson to pay millions to avoid standing trial over surgica...
26 April 2019Accidents at Work
Case of the Week: Dangerous Machinery
This case of the week looks at an accident at work, where an employer ...
28 May 2019Case of the Week: Supermarket Infection
Our client missed a year of work after they were forced to continue wo...
14 January 2019Case of the Week: Lone Working Can Cause Injury
In this week's Case of the Week our client injured their back at work,...
02 January 2019Case 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...
23 September 2019Case of the Week: Defective Products
In this week's Case of the Week, we helped a family win compensation a...
24 June 2019Case of the Week: Delivering Justice
In this week's case of the week our solicitors successfully opposed so...
17 June 2019Our Firm News
Former Labour minister and Australian law firm CEO join forces on Thompsons Solicitors’ supervisory board
Thompsons Solicitors has appointed Baroness Dawn Primarolo and Greg Tu...
01 July 2019Thompsons Solicitors publishes Gender Pay Gap Report for 2019
Thompsons Solicitors have published their gender pay gap report figure...
04 April 2019Are electronic bills killing off detailed assessments and can paying parties get their act together?
Julian Caddick, our head of costs at Thompsons, examines how electroni...
11 February 2019