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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
Birmingham 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 2018Amended discount rate for serious injury victims, one year on
Twelve months after the personal injury discount rate was amended, Tho...
01 March 2018Asbestos Diseases
Thompsons Solicitors’ bake sales raise more than £1,000 for mesothelioma victims
Thompsons Solicitors has raised more than £1,000 for the asbestos char...
12 June 2019Family of late Manchester engineer seek support from Metropolitan Vickers’ employees after his asbestos death
The family of a deceased electrical engineer are appealing to his form...
21 May 2019Husband of late Yorkshire nurse asks her ex-colleagues to help asbestos disease claim
The husband of a former nurse who died from mesothelioma is asking her...
21 May 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
A teaching assistant left in substantial pain more than a decade after...
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: Not Part of the Job
Thompsons Solicitors managed to secure compensation for a prison offic...
10 June 2019Case of the Week: Needlestick Injuries
In this week's case of the week, Thompsons Solicitors highlight the co...
20 May 2019Case of the Week: Weekend trips
In this week's Case of the Week, a worker suffers an accident at work,...
07 May 2019Our Firm News
Thompsons 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, head of costs at Thompsons Solicitors, examines how el...
11 February 2019Campaigning law firm takes action to help tackle period poverty
Thompsons Solicitors has launched an initiative to support women who a...
03 January 2019