Wards Solicitors LLP

Personal Injury: Claimant

Helen Boyd, Partner, specialises in all areas of personal injury and medical negligence claims. In particular these include:

• Road traffic accident claims (including claims against the Motor Insurers Bureau when a third party is uninsured or untraced);
• Accidents at work;
• Product liability claims (including acting for a claimant who had swallowed shards of glass in a pie and acting for a claimant injured in a road traffic accident when a defective tyre burst);
• Medical negligence claims (including acting for a claimant injured during cosmetic surgery);
• Accidents caused by animals;
• Accidents abroad (including a claim by a holidaymaker injured by the broken surface of a swimming pool in Turkey);
• Claims against the police (including wrongful arrest, false imprisonment and assault);
• Assault claims (both civil claims against the assailant and claims against The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority);
• Claims against local authorities (where the local authority failed to protect someone as a child by removing them from the care of their parent/carer);
• Sexual abuse claims (including acting for victims of sexual abuse in claims against an individual, schools, church and/or local authority);
• Hairdressing claims (where a claimant’s hair has sustained significant damage from the application of chemicals to tint and/or perm it);
• Occupational stress and harassment claims (including acting for victims of bullying in the workplace); and
• Any claim where someone has suffered injury through the fault of another.

• Member of Law Society’s Personal Injury panel since 2008
• Has specialised in Accident and Injury law since qualifiying as a Solicitor in 1992