{"id":989,"date":"2011-03-08T10:39:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T10:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/?p=989"},"modified":"2011-03-08T10:39:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T10:39:13","slug":"council-pays-330000-in-personal-injury-claims-6261","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/council-pays-330000-in-personal-injury-claims-6261\/","title":{"rendered":"Council pays \u00a3330,000 in Personal Injury claims-6261"},"content":{"rendered":"

Suffolk County Council have paid in excess of \u00a33330,000 in compensation over the last four years to people who have tripped and injured themselves on pavements in the County.\u00a0 The information, discovered thanks to a freedom of information request put forward by the East Anglia Times, details the cost to the County of paying personal injury<\/a> compensation. The total paid since 2007 is \u00a3331,546, the largest single accident cost \u00a370,000 and occurred in Primose Way, Needham Market, the lowest amount awarded was \u00a350 for an accident in Hanover Court, Elmswell.<\/p>\n

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The details of individual accidents were not released, however the data did show that there had been thirty-four unsuccessful claims against the Council during this period. Larger individual claims included \u00a322,766 for an accident in Strawberry fields, Haverhill, and \u00a312,561 as a result of an incident in East Street, Sudbury. A Suffolk County Council spokesman claimed that they had a comprehensive program of repair and inspection and that most claims made against the county were defended successfully.<\/p>\n

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He did go on to admit that in a minority of cases the courts had made the decision that the council had fallen below the levels expected of them.<\/p>\n

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Suffolk County Council have paid in excess of \u00a33330,000 in compensation over the last four years to people who have tripped and injured themselves on pavements in the County.\u00a0 The information, discovered thanks to a freedom of information request put forward by the East Anglia Times, details the cost to the County of paying personal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888008809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[115,298,376,189],"class_list":["post-989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-injury","tag-compensation-claims","tag-court-case","tag-lawyers","tag-personal-injury-claims"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t