Compensation Claims for Accidents while Working Abroad

If you had an accident that was not your fault while you were working overseas, a no win, no fee personal injury solicitor at Pannone LLP can review your compensation claim at no cost to you. You will receive 100% of the compensation that you are awarded. Our service is completely free to you.

For a free consultation with travel law solicitor Andrew Morton please call our helpline on Freephone 0800 0384 384 or contact us by e-mail now.

Any overseas workplace accident compensation 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 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 s 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 a accident claim even though the injury occurred whilst working abroad.

One particular area where Pannone have developed experience is acting on behalf of offshore workers in the gas and oil industries as well as ships 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
• $400,000 recovered on behalf of an English oil worker contracted to a US company and working offshore.
• £15,000 for an engineer injured in an explosion whilst working in China for his English employer.
• €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.

Call Freephone 0800 0384 384 now for a free consultation with a Personal Injury Solicitor or Lawyer at Pannone LLP or send us an email. We are available to take your call twenty four hours a day, seven days a week.