A woman has received compensation of more than £20,000 in a personal injury claim after she fell and broke a bone in her wrist, after tripping on a pavement.

The claimant, who is a “very fit and active elderly lady”, had been walking along her local high street, which had a wide pavement that was built with square modern paving slabs. As she made her way along the high street, she caught her toe and a raised slab and fell to the floor.

She naturally put her hands out to break her fall and as a result fractured the scaphoid bone More >