When Can You Claim For An Accident In A Public Place?

It won't come as any surprise that many accidents and injuries occur in public places, even now, when we're spending more time than ever at home. Some of these inevitably result in personal injury claims. They can involve numerous scenarios, some common, and some more unusual. The one that usually springs to mind is the classic slip or trip on a loose paving stone or an icy pavement. However, claims have arisen from attacking farm animals and wayward bouncy castles to name but two.

What all these claims have in common however is that the accident occurred in a place that the injured person was entitled to be, for instance, a shop, a street, or a park, and somewhere that was not the individual's home, or place of work. A claim is often still possible of course, if the accident occurred at work, but this would be categorised as an employer's liability claim.