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Personal
Injury Claims News
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Car
Accident - Road Accident Victim
Awarded £249.000
February 2003
Justine Coles, aged 31, from
Nottingham, whose dream of running her family business was shattered by a car crash has been awarded £249,000 in
personal injury compensation by London's High Court.
Coles, a pharmacist, now earns £27,000 a year working for
Boots. She suffered a fractured pelvis in
a car accident in Kent in November 1998.
She was hospitalised for two weeks.
She was a front-seat passenger in the car at the time of the accident, and successfully sued the insurers of the
driver who admitted full liability for the accident.
Her severe injuries meant that she was unable to cope with the work at the family business, W.E Coles Ltd
- which had been founded by her grandfather and handed down to her father.
The business was sold in 1999.
Coles was forced to change her
career plans and take a "sedentary" job as a medical adviser for Boots in Nottingham at the end of 1999.
Counsel for Miss Coles, told the
court that because of the
accident, "She has lost, and will continue to lose, the income she would have received had she not been injured."
The
sum awarded was to compensate her for her pain and suffering, her lost earnings and the loss of her "congenial employment".
The judge said: "It was always Miss Coles' intention to take over the family
business "I'm confident she would have continued the family business and would have succeeded her father.
Despite her determination in the early days following her accident, it was obvious she was no longer able to cope with her work in the pharmacy which required her to be standing for long periods."
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