Real Life Stories
Real Cases. Real Results.
Claims – Fear of Going to Court
Paulina has been working in one of the busiest branches of a large German supermarket for 8 years. She was employed as a retail assistant. In March 2018 Paulina was asked to restock the milk fridges. She had to push a large, 1.8m high, trolley full of milk cartons...
Claims – Fear of Solicitor’s Fees
Marek has suffered from a severe nut allergy all his life. His family never ordered takeaway food just in case it contained nuts. This changed during the lockdown in April and May of 2020. Marek’s family decided to order food from a local takeaway. On the phone, they...
Fear of Losing Your Job
Piotr had worked for a supply company for 3 years. The hours were long, the work was hard and the pay was ok. Piotr didn’t mind the hard work or the long hours. It was wet, windy, and cold when Piotr arrived with his lorry in the unloading bay in Galway City...
Fear of Losing Your Job 2
Andrius worked as a mechanic for a small Irish transport company since 2003. He went back to Lithuania during the recession in 2006 and then came back to working at this company in 2011. He was a mechanic who serviced large delivery trucks. The company has...
Accident at work – Fear of no money
Mariusz has been working as a mechanic in a meat factory since he moved to Ireland in 2007. In August 2019 he was sent to one of the factories to repair a rotary packing machine which broke after one of the employees dropped a lump of meat inside. In order to repair...
Badly Injured Motorcyclist Receives €120,000 and Makes a Full Recovery
On a bright cold January morning, the client was driving his Honda Deauville 680 cc touring bike to work. He came off the M50 at Exit 14 and came down the Drummartin Link Road. He was stopped first at the lights at the Golden Grill. The lights went green and he took...
Back Injury to Distribution Worker – Awarded €50,000
No Manual Handling Training The client, a male Lithuanian national aged 35, was employed in a warehouse to load and unload sheets of glass. He had worked in the loading area since 2007. On Friday the 14th of March, he was working by himself loading glass into a van...
Afraid of Claims Process – Cleaner award €44,410
Elena, aged 52 years, works as a cleaner. She has been cleaning offices in Limerick for 5½ years. In March 2019, Elena was upstairs cleaning a canteen and toilet. She needed to bring the rubbish downstairs. The lift was not working properly. It kept shuddering. Elena...
“I Don’t Need all the Monies in the Heavens”
On a cold, wet February evening, Rima was returning home from work in the restaurant. She driving along the Dublin Road into Navan.She had just passed the left hand turn onto Timmons Hill (R153).The traffic was heavy both ways and she was stopped to turn right onto...
An accident at a turkey factory
Alfonsas is a 54 year old factory operative working in a turkey factory. His job is to take the recently killed turkeys from the slaughter house and put them onto hooks. The turkeys weigh from 5kg to 45kg. When the rack is full it weighs approximately 600kg. Alfonsas...