Robert Lawton has over 15 years’ experience dealing with personal injury claims, including road traffic accidents, assaults, accidents at work and public liability claims.
He is based in Bristol, within the multi-track accident team, dealing with claims across the South West and Wales. He runs a full case load with settlement values between £25,000 and £250,000 as well as supervising junior colleagues since becoming an SSV earlier this month. He has experience dealing with significant injuries, such as orthopaedic injuries or psychiatric injuries.
Robert’s aim is to ensure that those individuals who have suffered significant injuries and losses are represented in a way that ensures they get back proper compensation for what they have been through and lost.
Robert says that Thompsons differs from other law firms because it only acts for the injured party and never works for insurance companies, and that drives him on.
Outside of work Robert is a keen sportsman, and enjoys spending time with this three young children.
Robert's case experience
- NM – an individual who was injured when transporting a piece of equipment on the front of a forklift, and NM was guiding it. NM lost his footing on sandy ground and slipped. His left leg went under the wheel of the forklift truck. As a result, he suffered nerve damage, a fracture to his right foot/ankle and a broken tibula/fibula. Settled for £67,500.00.
- SG – an individual who was injured when she was crossing a road using a zebra crossing when the Defendant’s van hit her. Her injuries consisted of ACJ separation of her collar bone and shoulder resulting in surgery, a head injury, a psychiatric injury along with several soft tissue injuries. She was unable to continue working. Settled for £300,000
- NW – the individual was a firearms officer. She was injured whilst taking part on a police tactics course which requiring her to fall repetitively onto both knees on concrete and hard gravel without any form of knee protection. As a result, she suffered a soft tissue injury to both knees. She underwent an arthroscopy on her right knee in May 2021. Degenerative change and three tears were diagnosed. She continued to experience pain in her right knee causing her employment to be terminated on the grounds of ill-health in December 2022. Settled for £170,000
- JS – the retired individual was injured when she was walking home from shopping. She was crossing the road when she was hit by a bus. She suffered a fractured pelvis, two broken ribs, a humerus fracture to her left shoulder, a de-gloving injury to two fingers of her right hand, a fracture to the top of the right middle finger and a wound to the back of her head. Settled for £130,000
- PL – the individual was injured when he was cleaning a property ready for a new tenant. He walked into the property intending to firstly turn off the alarm and then to remove any items that needed taking away. As he walked through the doorway and into the premises he tripped over a steel alarm box that had been secured to the floor just by the door. He fell forwards, breaking his fall with his arms. He felt immediate pain in his right toe which is the foot he tripped over the alarm box. He broke his toe. Unfortunately, he proceeded to experience significant problems arising from the injury. He underwent arthroscopy in March 2018 following an attempt in February 2018 which was aborted due to a laryringospasm problem. Despite surgery he did not experience any significant improvement. A CT scan in 2021 identified that the joint had not united following an attempt to try to arthrodese the joint. The medical expert stated that without revision surgery he would be left with a deformed toe. However, in May 2022 his treating consultant took the decision to list him for amputation of the toe. That amputation surgery took place in May 2023. Settled for £129,398.00.
- JA – the individual was assaulted at work by an offender. During the course of the assault the individual sustained several large blows to the head. She was off work following the assault, returned to work on light duties however due to ongoing neurological, cognitive and psychological difficulties she was unable to continue to work and was eventually retired on ill health grounds. The matter settled for £460,000