Number of accident claims on increase among migrants in UK

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There is more and more migrants living in the UK, many of them in full time employment without knowing their rights. There was a many cases when migrants worker was involved in an accident but never claim compensation just because they didn't know they can.

Leeds, UK – August 1st, 2014 /PressCable/

According to the Health and Safety Executive or HSE, employers have reported over 110,000 work-related injuries in 2012/2013 as told

by the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations or

RIDDOR. A fraction of these reports stem from the Polish migrants of the UK

according to reports from accident claim solicitors ODSZKODOWANIA UK . A dismal

truth here is that there are 603,000 employees in total that have gone through

accidents in their workplace. Going by these statistics, it is easy to say that

workers have been and continue to be reluctant to file accident claims.


The Importance of Filing an Accident Claim


If employee have been injured in the workplace, he or she will need

recovery time from the injury. While out of work, employee is continuously haunted by several financial problems, mainly taxes and

utility bills, mortgage payments, insurance payments and the long list goes on.

Just because worker isn't able to work, it doesn't mean he or she has to plunged

deeper into financial miseries. Also, the company won't have any right to

summon anybody back to work for attendance's sake because it goes against the labour

code. If the accident happened in the workplace, employers will be held

liable for not complying with the Health and Safety Regulations. Company will,

therefore, pay employee dues as well as compensation granted that file for

an accident claim.


Accident Claims vs The Company


Companies have reputations to maintain. This is the main reason why filing

an accident claim is almost never denied by a company after an impairing

incident. For one thing, company will have to face the media for rejection of a

worker's claim. Another thing is that subjects the company into queries of

unconstitutionality, particularly for possible negligence of its labourers

concerning rights and privileges.


Various Types of Injury Claims


Aside from construction site, factory and warehouse

accidents, there are far more vaster kinds of calamities encompassed by injury

or accident claims. For example, if it is a part of your job to operate a car

or van, the employer should ensure the vehicle to be a roadworthy one. Roadside

accidents caused by system faults due to lack of proper and regular maintenance

makes worker fully entitled to file an accident claim. If the incident did not

lead to any immediate major injury but an underlying effect that manifests only

after a couple months or even a year, employee can still file for a claim by then as

long as medical reports would suggest that the accident was indeed the reason

behind the condition. More to the point, a worker is able to file for a claim

within the next three years after the incident's occurrence.


Before filing an accident claim, it is best to seek advice

from a lawyer, particularly one that specializes on workmen's comp advise spokesmen from Odszkodowania UK


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Organization: Odszkodowania UK
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Address: Leeds

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