It was an accident, but that does not mean it could not have been prevented!

Compensation culture is a strange subject. In some ways it has gone too far, most people think. That is until something happens to you personally and then..... it feels like you don't have enough rights.

I think we need to find a decent middle ground. If you injure yourself at work or in the street and you lose your ability to support yourself for a short while or longer then the peoples / company responsible should be financially supporting you.

I remember being ill one day at college (it was actually a very bad hangover, but don't tell anyone!) and the teacher saying to me that I could go home. I was so desperate to get home (and quite probably still drunk) that I went running down the street.

Bang, I felt a huge sharp pain run across my head and face and I was on my back on the floor with a workman looking over me. What happened? I asked. The workman had just opened a metal shutter as I was running past.

My immediate reaction was to sue, especially since my glasses were bent. I never did. The fact that I was drunk made me feel bad. However it was not my fault. The workman had not made the area safe before throwing the metal shutter open out onto the street where anyone, sober or drunk, could have walked (or ran) into it.

So I think there is a place for the compensation culture but it needs to be a genuines claim and reason.

Keypoint Legal Services deal with Accident Claims. If you have been genuinely injured at work or have a long term condition related to your work then they can help. You can file your claim online and their website looks very friendly.

Just make sure your claim is genuine before you go ahead with such a move. I am sure if it is then an accident claims company could be very helpful and get you the monies that you deserve.