Accidents & Illness Claims Working Abroad

Workplace accident claims abroad

If you had an accident while you were working overseas, a no win, no fee personal injury solicitor at Pannone can review your compensation claim at no cost to you.

Keep 100% of the compensation

You will receive 100% of the compensation that you are awarded. Our service is completely free to you.

Accident claims abroad

To arrange a discussion with a personal injury solicitor who specialises in workplace accident claims abroad click here or call us on 0800 0384 384. We are available to take your call twenty four hours a day, seven days a week.

Any overseas workplace accident claim requires the specialist knowledge and experience to understand the laws and regulations that govern the liability of the employer or any other party responsible. Where the worker is injured abroad a further layer of expertise is required to have access to local/foreign law and have the know-how to see which legal system will be applicable to the case. No law firm is better placed than Pannone to allow you to access this advice.

Many workers assume that when they are sent to work abroad by their employer they will be covered by insurance or, if they need to seek damages for injury, that a claim can be brought against their employer. They also assume that any such claim would be dealt with through the UK courts if settlement could not be achieved. Sadly, this is not always the case. The rules of Private International Law are complex and a worker faced with a denial of responsibility from their employer needs to be properly advised on their rights

The contract of employment is an important document as are the facts as to who has day to day control over a worker's activities whilst he is working abroad. Many duties of an employer to their worker are not delegable to a third party (such as a foreign company where the worker is sent to do his job) even though the employer may deny responsibility for health and safety. For many practical and financial reasons it is often very important that a worker can show that there is a UK based Defendant to an accident claim even though the injury occurred whilst working abroad.

Offshore worker claims

One particular area where Pannone has developed experience is acting on behalf of offshore workers in the gas and oil industries as well as ship's crew injured abroad or whilst at sea. Again this type of case can throw up complex issues on conflicts between English and foreign law.

Here are some of the cases that our personal injury solicitors have worked on:

• Piper Alpha disaster
• offshore claim - $400,000 recovered on behalf of an English oil worker contracted to a US company and working offshore
• explosion claim - £15,000 for an engineer injured in an explosion whilst working in China for his English employer
• road Traffic Accident - €4,000 for an Englishman injured in a road traffic accident en-route to work whilst on secondment to a German division of his employer

No win, no fee - keep 100% of the compensation

Our personal injury claims solicitors can help you secure the compensation for you are entitled to, even if you feel you may have been partly to blame.

Making a claim for an accident abroad

To arrange a discussion with a personal injury solicitor who specialises in work accident claims abroad click here or call us ree on 0800 0384 384. We are available to take your call twenty four hours a day, seven days a week.