Personal injury claims 'minimised due to media hype'

Personal injury claims may have been played down or misrepresented by people pandering to media hype, it has been suggested.

Genuine accident compensation resulting from an incident that was not the victim's fault is being brushed aside in favour of headline-grabbing stories, abeceder reports.

One example is that of a teacher who banned children from walking under a conker tree without a helmet, while another pertains to a restaurant refusing to provide clients with toothpicks due to the risk they pose.

But real personal injury claims should not be swept aside in the publicity surrounding Lord Young's health and safety review, the results of which are to be revealed at the current Conservative Party conference.

The Daily Mail recently reported a horse chestnut tree had been stripped of its conkers after a girl was injured by a falling branch more than a year before, but may risk encouraging the dismissal of genuine accident compensation claims due to its editorial standpoint.