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I drove into my employers car park and when I was reversing into the area my front wheel was on full lock and it dropped down a sunken drain and it snapped my front suspension spring, do the company have to pay for the repair
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.To be able to make a valid claim, you'd almost certainly need to be able to show that the company was negligent. (e.g. by not clearly marking a hazard in an area that an employee would normally be driving in). If you simply drove into something that you should have been aware of, it's not your employer's fault.
As an analogy, you can't successfully claim against a supermarket just because you slip on a spillage on their floor and break your arm as a result. You would need to show that they'd been negligent, e.g. by failing to clear up a spillage that they clearly should have known about. If their CCTV showed that the spillage had only occurred thirty seconds before you injured yourself, you'd have no valid claim.
So you need to ask yourself how you're going to show that your employer was actually negligent.
As an analogy, you can't successfully claim against a supermarket just because you slip on a spillage on their floor and break your arm as a result. You would need to show that they'd been negligent, e.g. by failing to clear up a spillage that they clearly should have known about. If their CCTV showed that the spillage had only occurred thirty seconds before you injured yourself, you'd have no valid claim.
So you need to ask yourself how you're going to show that your employer was actually negligent.
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