Sports and Leisure Injuries

A rider who was injured after being thrown from her horse has won compensation of £37,000. The accident happened in 2007 when Ceri Tonkinson was riding in Cosmeston Country Park, near Penarth in Wales. The horse she was riding had only recently been...

A golfer who was hit in the face by a stray golf ball has received compensation for her injuries. Rachel Davis was walking back to the car park from the ninth hole at Branston Golf and Country Club in Staffordshire when the accident happened. The ball hit...

A woman who missed out on her holiday after she fell down a set of temporary stairs at Birmingham International Airport has won £28,000 in compensation from Thomson Airways. Sheila Gilling, 69, was boarding a flight to Lanzarote when the accident...

An amateur footballer who was seriously injured while playing on a poorly maintained pitch was recently awarded £22,700 in compensation at Dewsbury County Court. Paul Zoledziejewski, a 33-year-old mechanic, was playing for his club on a pitch in Shelf...

A woman who fell from a boat during a pleasure cruise has been awarded compensation for the injuries she suffered as a result. The woman was at a Christmas party, with colleagues from work, when the accident happened. She and a friend had been dancing and...

A woman from Southend who fell down an open manhole while holidaying in Turkey has won a six-figure sum in compensation for her injuries. Michelle Dragon, 49, was staying with friends at the Club Sarba Hotel in Marmaris, Turkey, when the accident happened....

A woman who broke her neck during a horse riding lesson has won £60,000 in compensation. Maxine Wright and her husband had been taking riding lessons in preparation for a horse trekking holiday in Spain. The accident happened during a lesson when Mrs...

Following a hearing in the High Court, the judge is to rule on who was responsible for the ‘Dreamspace’ artwork accident, which left two people dead and over two dozen injured. The accident happened in July 2006, when the Dreamspace V artwork,...

An experienced horse rider who was involved in an accident with a camper van has been awarded £87,400 in damages. Sally Stoddart, then 14, was riding with a friend when the accident happened in 2002. As she was turning off a bridleway and into the...

A footballer who suffered an injury which ultimately ended his career has been awarded compensation. Dean Ashton, now 27, was injured in 2006 in the lead up to what would have been his international debut for England, in a friendly match against Greece....

The Court of Appeal has upheld a lower court's decision that a former scout who was injured while playing a game is entitled to compensation. Mark Barnes, now 23, was injured when he was 13 while playing a game called ‘objects in the dark’ with...

The Court of Appeal has ruled that a man who suffered serious injuries after being hit by a car in Spain is entitled to the same level of compensation that he would have received had the accident happened in the UK. Clint Jacobs was on holiday in Marbella...

A girl who is permanently scarred after she suffered an accident at a holiday park in Somerset has been awarded £5,000 in compensation. The unnamed girl, who was 11 years old at the time of the accident, slipped and fell into a glass panel in the door...

Members of a dance group who became ill whilst on holiday have won compensation from a Yorkshire hotel. The group, most of whom were pensioners, was staying at the Clifton Hotel in Scarborough. The hotel had experienced an outbreak of gastric illness the...

A woman who was left paralysed after a tragic fairground accident has secured compensation of £35,000 from the company responsible testing the equipment. She is also pursuing further claims to compensate her for her injuries. Jessica Oseland, 28, was...

A couple whose honeymoon was ruined after the husband was struck down by salmonella and amoebic dysentery have won compensation from the tour operator. Francis and Beverley Mayes, 49 and 43, were holidaying at the Gran Bahia Principe Hotel, a five-star...

A tour operator is being sued by hundreds of people who contracted gastroenteritis whilst staying at one of its hotels. The British holidaymakers had travelled to the four-star resort in the Dominican Republic in summer 2007. Guests reported that the hotel...

A fitness instructor who is now confined to a wheelchair following a snowmobile accident at an Italian ski resort has won the right to millions of pounds in compensation. Emma Moore, 41, was on a family holiday at the Alpine resort of Passo Tonale. She had...

A student who was badly injured by a late tackle while playing football has won £25,000 in compensation. Jonny Craig, 29, was studying for a doctorate in educational psychology at the University of Nottingham. He was taking part in a Sunday League...

Twenty-four British tourists who were involved in a coach crash while on holiday in Bulgaria have won a court battle against the tour operator that provided their package holiday. The accident happened when the tourists were on their way to a ski resort....

A holidaymaker who suffered kidney failure after he ate a burger contaminated with E. coli has won £750,000 in compensation from the tour operator. Carl Riley, 46, was staying with his girlfriend at a hotel in Egypt on what they hoped would be the...

A man who contracted a potentially fatal disease whilst on honeymoon in Venezuela has won £286,500 in compensation from the tour operator. After their wedding, Julian Hurley, 50, and his wife Jayne went on a package holiday to South America with First...

Back injuries are one of the most common causes of absenteeism in the UK. Each year, employers lose millions of pounds because of lost working days and compensation payable because of injuries sustained in the workplace as a result of poor practice when...

A young man has received £40,000 in compensation after he was mentally and physically bullied by two football coaches. The young man was attending a sixth form college in North London under a scheme designed to encourage promising footballers to...

A former county rugby player, who hoped to turn professional, has won compensation after he was forced to give up the sport he loved because a hospital failed to diagnose his wrist injury correctly. The man, now 23, suffered the injury during a rugby match...