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Richard Meggitt
Partner/Solicitor
Major Trauma Cases
0114 2672472
Year of call as a solicitor 1996.
Richard is a qualified solicitor, having joined the firm in 1996. He has deliberately restricted his case load to serious injury claims. Having acted for more than 500 Claimants in major trauma cases, his expertise is recognised by the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers; Richard is a senior litigator.
After several months of legal challenge, UK buggy manufacturer Maclaren have finally agreed personal injury compensation packages for over 40 children who had their fingers, allegedly, seriously injured in the hinges of the company’s folding pushchairs.
The compensation agreement concludes a long running claims saga which initially began in late 2009. Personal injury claims were brought against Maclaren following the recall of one million of their products after a string of injuries suffered by children in the USA.
Despite the compensation agreement, Maclaren stated that this did not equate to an admission of liability and had merely agreed to make full compensation damages awards in relation to personal injury, with the aid of its insurers. In their defence, Maclaren also pointed out that having sold over one million buggies in the UK over the past decade, they had only ever received around 100 complaints.
Individual amounts have been calculated depending on the severity of the personal injury suffered by each child with a majority of the payouts ranging from £2500 to £10,000.
Some of the personal injury claims made against the company dated back to 2003 and included a range of injuries such as partial amputation of fingers, deep lacerations and fractured bones.
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